Misery Index - Complete Control [Full Album 2022]

Lyrics to Complete Control [Full Album 2022] by Misery Index

Tracklist: 01. Administer The Dagger Who are the oppressors? The few, the king, the capitalist And a handful of other overseers And superintendents Who are the oppressed? The many, the nations of the Earth The valuable personages The workers Slave and make the bread The soft-handed and idle eat We are the ones who plant the burning seed inside your head A preconception bent, a momentary scent As skeptics castigate, prevaricate, and connive Days on end turn to years in time We offer answers to allay you of this mayhem Prophetic alchemy, soothing casuistry You second-guess the truth as shadow agents consort Fault assigned to the weakened of mind Each vassal claims what the other denies The order preserves what the order prescribes And we, the sinister, administer the dagger The mind's a prison in this codified disaster An overarching rule, a caravan of fools An aristocracy of esoteric origin Wealth ingests wealth as you swallow our lies Each will disdain what the other decries The order preserves what the order prescribes And we, the sinister, administer the dagger We echo claims diseased and antiquated Yet nothing hides the truth of our intent No hidden cause, no cabal in concealment We are the ones you choose to rule your wretched lives 02. The Eaters And The Eaten Ancient ways ensnared in the monetary grip Sons and daughters slaved by the wage and the whip Our way of life crushed, as our lives drown in work Is this what we're to think, that a human life is worth? Burned out fields and broken, black factories Echoing names of the dead who came before me Who yearns to breathe this acrid, acid air? Who among us bleeds for a better life beyond despair? Eaters and eaten - deathwork, so nauseating Master and servant - deathwork immisertating The eaters and the eaten - eaten alive Hours spent in the shadow of the mill Days turn to weeks as our lifeblood spills Burned out fields and broken, black factories Echoing names of the dead who came before me Eaters and eaten - deathwork, so nauseating Master and servant - deathwork immisertating From the rare earth mine, to the longshore line Survival is a burden, that we can not relent The eaters and the eaten - eaten alive Hours spent in the shadow of the mill Days turn to weeks as our lifeblood spills Falling through the cracks, we bring down the anvil of dissent From ash-caked eyes, thousand-mile stares Gaze upon a world where this system is extinct and nevermore 03. Complete Control No hope nor reason Just thirteen years against the grain Broke, burned and branded No greater cause, called my name Caged like a cipher Doomed to dwell a dead-end life The 'way it is'? Or conspiracy? Wherefore and why this world should be? Now through wool-encrusted eyes I see Their malfeasance and their sophistry As the tentacles of lies unfold In this complete control Rife with division Shreds of truth, infect the maze Prophets spew derision As empires wax and wane Who am I in this? A hero's song, or Caliban? Plant the seed, pull the strings My will is all that's left of me Now through wool-encrusted eyes I see Their malfeasance and their sophistry As the tentacles of lies unfold In this complete control Now killers walk among us And skeptics blindly stare As power grips insidious All that's real fades into the air 04. Necessary Suffering Then without a whisper, the skies of the earth turned black Cracks in the order appear, as the end time call resounds All logic swept away, just so their profits can be made Still their ships set sail, on plastic seas exhaled And death fuels the dream, as children slave in sites unseen Luxury exceeds, and above all, wealth decrees "This land is yours to reap, and human life is always cheap" Still their stocks will rise, as billions swarm immobilized with dread Their behest, rights of men, arcane laws, dividends Septic cults, cryptic tools, praise the palace fools Sycophants, tow the line, speak in tongues, orphic rhymes Black and red, bleeding cash, nothing here will ever last And each and all must know their place Nothing here to contemplate Fear and death, dearth and rot Few will have and many will have not It's necessary suffering From servitude to severity This sacrifice and savagery It's necessary suffering Scorched earth, bread lines, Shenzhen suicides Caustic, dead frost, insect holocaust CO2, salted wounds, surplus opportune Work drones, solar winds, the work of progress has no sense nor end It's necessary suffering From servitude to severity This sacrifice and savagery It's necessary suffering All lives, disposable, like cattle for the abattoir So it goes, ashes to embers all Embers to ashes It's necessary, so necessary Suffering 05. Rites Of Cruelty Born from the ashes and detritus of decades The burden never ends and the rules never change Myopic pawns marching out to Rattenfänger's call Each for themselves and all against all Choking on the spite of a life subjugated Where flesh begets flesh for the kill And one after one spew invective In this cult, merciless and dejected And what we have is what we take For present day and future worlds When the bell of insurrection tolls And the last will be first on the day When their towers will crack and fall And their power-mad lust dissolves In the ether of their death's lament And their rites of cruelty ends Burn out the eyes of the miser Let the tide turn back on this cancer Drive out the knave and the rotter As a voice, once lost, cries, "Vengeance" And what we have is what we take For present day and future worlds When the bell of insurrection tolls And the last will be first on the day When their towers will crack and fall And their power-mad lust dissolves In the ether of their death's lament And their rites of cruelty end When this vile artifice decays And their temples are set ablaze In the fires of a greed misspent And their rites of cruelty end As centuries of thralldom turn to dust We promise them reprisal and revenge Wage of death, life for rent Gasp for breath, only one fight left One by one, cracks reveal Hollowed-out hearts beneath the wheel Rise above, grind the gears Let them all know the meaning of fear Drag them out, set the trap These are the years that we never will get back Never will get back 06. Conspiracy Of None Each day here, an evisceration Dragged down into immiseration And there's no one left exonerated One and all held entranced by this alchemy of fear In the grip, in the vise In the coldest margins Life exists and persists With no hope nor hallowed shred of human grace Outside, there's a world that waits for me One steeped and full of parasites A plot to defame They whisper out my name Outside, there's a world that's come undone Open the door, conspiracy of none Conspiracy of none When one and one make three, conspiracy of none In cryptic codes, they speak Masterminding globally, conspiracy of none Trace the codes, between the lies, behind the star-crossed chaos Like a snake, they unwind, coils ever-twisting Like a "theory" sparked from nothing but a joke Save your "truths", these deaf ears are immune Remedies for unwashed minds Hidden aims and secret signs Arguments dissolve, conspiracy of none Conspiracy of none When one and one make three, conspiracy of none In cryptic codes they speak Soon, we all will scream, "Conspiracy" None Propagate the paranoid precept Reify and glorify the myth, go There's no truth Only deceit Panoptic eyes around me, watching all As the world slips into mass suspicion Threads come undone and the order falters And there's no one left exonerated One and all held entranced by fear 07. Infiltrators Behind concrete walls The worst among us hide Once more, they will know What it means to live in fear Make them fear like 1945 Fence-walking pawns, separatists, apologists - all entangled Cross-burning cops, cathechists, loyalists - fascist agents Life-sucking laws, corporate claws, reprobates, rot the system Shit-talking frauds, charlatans, hypocrites - drawn and quartered Infiltrators - stamp them out Infiltrators - crushed liked insects Infiltrators - stamp them out Infiltrators - crushed liked insects Fence-walking pawns, separatists, apologists - all entangled Cross-burning cops, cathechists, loyalists - fascist agents Infiltrators - stamp them out Infiltrators - crushed liked insects Infiltrators - stamp them out Infiltrators - crushed liked insects 08. Reciprocal Repulsion Each from one and all Born from dust of worlds beyond In transcendental arc Through age of ice, sturm und drang Opposites in arrogance, embrace the path insane Severed ties and broken lives, corrupt with disdain Atavistic oracles of wrath and mistrust Absurdities and fallacies evolve and erupt Victor and vanquished, spew vitriol through the air Reciprocal repulsion, a zero-sum end Victor and vanquished, spit venom and despair Reciprocal repulsion, a zero-sum end One by one, they propagate their prophecies obscene Pseudo-seraphs salivate and pick the carcass clean Risible and powerless, they turn upon themselves Rabid dogs of cowardice, drag them all to Hell The path of our deliverance Leads into the void Serpentine and silent Circuitous, slow burn Victor and vanquished, spit venom and despair Reciprocal repulsion, a zero-sum end Time After time The pressure of the wheel confines Victor and vanquished, spit venom and despair Reciprocal repulsion, a zero-sum end We stand (Powerless) Powerless, as common dreams die By the hammer of our hubris It's a requiem For the heresies of man As each and all face their death alone We stand powerless Powerless, as common dreams die By the hammer of our hubris It's a requiem For the heresies of man As each and all face their death alone 09. Now Defied! Conflating traits to control you I've got no fear instilled, no power play gives me shame Since before medieval times, the separation games stay the same Class ignored thus reified A piece of you, emphasized and weaponized to stratify The bile gushes, and head rushes From all the creeds and all the sides Obsession with body, self, and with difference Forced revolution of self-objectification You must defy Separation by moral bubble, diverting from their class struggle Intensified by ruling class, with strategies to control the mass Pieces of you, marginalized, you weaponize to unify Ethnicity, nationality, sexuality Your reality defined Now defied! Defy! Define yourself for yourself Defy! Now defied! Imperfected, intersected lives I've got no fear instilled, no power play gives me shame And I will defy these separation games for class struggle A piece of you, emphasized and weaponized, dividing by Ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and theology Constructing reality defined Now defied!