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Welcome to this splendid gathering

Today you will witness a perfection of scientifi c charity

With an ice pick staring up at us

Let's cut out each and every irregularity

And make this wretch an ordinary human being again

We will make you a free man

Devoid of demons, devoid of debauchery

You will be grateful for the internal bliss

When we retrieve you from your mental abyss

We will make you a Freeman

If you submit to lobotomy

A white cut, the red blood

Every complaint removed when you feel a little sting

But despite our magnifi cent and pioneering discoveries

You repent the accolade that was once given to us

Oh, the triviality of a few lost ones

Compared to the imposing magnitude of the beloved incision

Psycho surgery silencing the self

What bizarre megalomania made it come to this?

Was it powerlessness, apprehension, unspoken eugenics?

Or just a specifi c northern craving

For medically enhanced normality?

Now you hound us with your abominable reproach

And I foresee that this trajectory will be our nemesis

Whirling through paranoiac tunnels

As our achievements creep up on us