Ihsahn - Citizen lyrics

Citizen!
Whence came your voice your right to speak?
Is there a purpose to your
Tongue and gnawing teeth?
I ask thee: How deep and
Hollow is your mouth?
What lie is too decayed for you to stomach?

With humility and obedience
You pride yourself evasive and lukewarm
Until the end

Citizen! The interdependent morality of
Your collective
Made too soft the bed in which you lie
I ask thee: Do you
Acknowledge your own fragility
When you sleep to serve the "Greater Good"?

United in fear lives "hard to bear"
Illusions that "we are all peers"

I preach not for understanding
In you I have no faith
I spit at you my truth
That you are the burden of my heritage

For herein lies the irony
There is neither room nor air
For the wakeful fire
In your precious world of equality

Citizen! You are truly faithful
To tradition when you crucify
Those whose voices burn alas
A hundred years from now
You recite and corrupt
Their epitaphs to crucify another to crucify