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Sell them lies, sell them hope

Sell them what you know they long for

Confuse, dilute, and warp perception

Make them think they want it all and more

Sell them glory, sell them pride

Sell them all that's far from reach

Suck them in with smoke and mirrors

Make them think it's what they need

Engineers of deceit, planting all their seeds

Artful in their craft, painting us right into their corner

Preying on the aimless, preying on the naïve

Pray that we survive, all the poison we've been fed

Inventing the problem

Naming the enemy

Creating the conflict

The greatest deception

Is to make them believe

There is no deception

This foul machine

Cloaked in our ignorance

Propagation

Of hatred and war

Sold on lies, sold on hope

So grand is this dark charade

The only prize is blood and death

Running wildly fighting shadows