Degradation from NAM/VET by NAM/VET

i can see it coming on the left
i can see it coming from the right
i can see it coming on the left left left
i can see it on the right

caught in the middle, caught in a trap
caught in the ecstasy, of the final snap
oh how they snicker, through gritted teeth
they're lapping up our blood and spitting out the meat

call it a loving, call it a lie
call it the truth you told on the day you died
some call it honest, dying in fear
nevermind the fairy tales, cause hell is here

culling the heathens, this reckoning
beat back the faithless, and make them sing
piercing cries high and hollow on the wind
the kingdom of god, is built on sin

drowning in hatred, too long to tell
they cast our broken bodies deep within the well
we lay there rotting, most left to die
our cries for help are, drowned out by sighs

yoked to a serpent, the worm it turns
the bitterest of pills, oh how it burns
mass graves of millions, kept out of sight
they let the heart of darkness, walk in the light

shroud the world in ink and gloom
choking on our wretched sleep
shroud the world in ink and gloom
choking on the dreadful deep

drown the world in ink and gloom
efface the horrid mort tableaux
drown the world in ink and gloom
sunder the wreck far below

climbing and clawing, up through the pit
uplift your comrade while you're drowning in the shit
the human ladder, hand up the weak
no one left behind as we make it to the peak

up through the aether, into the night
the stars will guide us on our most arduous flight
summit the heavens, to find a home
we leave a paradise wherever we may roam

and down below us, far in the past
a monument of hate cloaked in the cross and flag
the wolves will dine now, upon their own
purging each other til the planet stands alone

and we can do it, if we can fight
half as hard as we have all of our lives
yea we can do it, if we just fight
half as hard as we have all of our lives

shroud the world and start anew
you can cut your spirit free
shroud the world of ink and gloom
it's time to cut your spirit free

shroud the world and start anew
you can cut your spirit free
shroud the world all ink and gloom
it's time to cut your spirit free

and in the end it's all ink and gloom
until you cut your spirit free
choking out the ink and gloom
it's time to cut your spirit free

burn the world of ink and gloom
you can cut your spirit free
burn the world of ink and gloom
it's time to cut your spirit free

• Punk
• De Kalb