CONTRAVENE LYRICS

"The Gift Of Life?"

Currently over 6 billion people inhabit the planet earth 
and with every hour, more than 10,000 people will be born 
A gift that should be so precious is instead a perverted game of deception & control 
Manipulative parents hellbent on success they could not achieve 
Greedy corporations to bring them to their knees 
A system based on murder to teach them how to kill 
A false prophet to suppress their thoughts to teach them to deny free will 
Text books filled with lies to distort their perceptions of reality 
Television to rot their brains and fill them with banality 
Consumer society to teach that money is success 
Date rape fucking culture to teach them the roles of sex 
Daddy beats on mommy, that's the way it is 
when he gets tired of that, he beats his fucking kids 
The gift of life, a precious act indeed,
when a child is but a barcoded number in a system based on greed 
They need bodies to fill the prison cells 
They need bodies to fill the factories 
They need bodies to fight in their fucking wars 
They need bodies to satisfy their greed 
In their eyes a child represents a profit, not a life 
A potential customer, a consumer to be used and thrown aside 
We live in a world where people would rather close their eyes
than ever admit that we're anything but civilized 
A cycle of oppression based on rules that they define 
Hatred, greed, destruction: will we ever see it die? 
Is it really our nature to accept being blindly led? 
And if that is our future, then the human race is dead. 
There is no basis of life in our current state of living.

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