The World Is a Thorn

The gavel has fallen, along with the rest Are we expected to settle for this? Bring us the plague, lead us away Blacken tomorrow with ash of today Can't you see the fabric of our standards wearing thin? See your world in its grave at the hands of the enslaved Won't bow to man. Won't bow to government Won't trust in a failed system of self-fulfilling lust Won't love a world where my God is mocked I defy Oh, a kiss on the serpent's head We walk in the line of deceit, the walking dead Can't you feel the ground of our discretion giving way? Refusal of hope, solution demise Bury the truth in a mountain of lies Won't bow to man Won't bow to government Won't trust in a failed system of self-fulfilling lust Won't love a world where my God is mocked I defy This is what you try to sell me Subjective nothingness Pull your sickness from my throat Let me breathe the truth Let me breathe the truth Won't bow to man Won't bow to government Won't bow to greed Won't bow to false hope Won't bow to self Won't bow to modern code Won't sell my soul to a dead world. I defy