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Stare and watch this tempest grow, fed with complacent denial

Keep us safe, keep the peace and teach us all to obey

Trading reason, for a shield of deceit, surrender to all their desires

Fear is strong, fear is king, and deceit is breaking our will



Building the walls, higher and higher

Hearing the lies, louder and louder

Swallow the fear, swallow it down, choke on your trust and all’s well

But trust is a liar, and faith is a fool, and slowly we lose sight of the truth

Caught in the whirlwind of panic and chaos, so desperate we let it all go

Make us the prisoners, concealing the irons, destroying this life that we know

Building the walls, higher and higher

Now rip them all down and leave us weak and exposed

Choke on your fears, relinquish yourself

Failing to grip at the threads that are left

Surrender to powers that we’ve made so strong

Further and further we’re drifting away

Our lack of courage has taken us down, our freedom is burning away

You bury your heads to soften the blow, but the strike will be just as deadly

Choke on the fear….

All that is cherished is fading away

Choke on the fear…

The powers we bow to have silenced our voice

Choke on the fear…

We’re dying so slowly

Choke on the fear…

Pulling us deeper and deeper