Righteousness reaching out cunning hands

 Molding minds of the meek

 Mindfucked by the hope of a promised land

 A pious purpose, automated response

 A synthetic, sympathetic reaction

 In sheltered simplicity emotions are lost

 To dispassionate stupefaction

 An innocent indoctrination, numbing mind-conversion

 Thought beaten down while spirit drowns in

 Ignorance immersion

 Abandon all hope, see, feel, hear and taste nothing

 Within and without, surrounded by suffering

 Deliver me from my senses

 Spurn the consolation of religion

 And illusions of immortality

 When you savor eternal suffering

 Purged, purified, you'll be set free

 Desperately I seek truth

 From thoughts rendered through mind

 Striving forward with baited breath

 I reach for what it hides