Panopticon - Merkstave lyrics

It's cold on the outskirts of the fire
And we shiver in confusion
Greedily huddling for warmth, next to the
Dancing flames back to back
Wallowing in shame

Isawhose been cast and carved into the oak
Our fear causes stillness
We are like the glass waters
Of an undisturbed pond
Petrified in our selfishness
Only moving to satiate our own desires
And quench our own thirsts

Into the void we all fall
Abandon humanity as we abandon law
Away from bullets and fire
And bombs over head
Its easy to escape state oppression
But not to escape ourselves

To learn to live as one body
Away from this capitalist hell

Poison runesmerkstave
The ink that smears your flesh
Branded with this human curse
To only care for ones self
It takes more than one tree
To create the forests canopy

How do we learn to live as one
Body and yet maintain
Our individual autonomy?
This war has just begun and the most
Deadly weapon is our own hands

When one of us falls in the field
(I will become your shield)
When one of us harvests the grain
(all of us will eat again)
When ever a child is born
(a warrior she will become)
When one of us ever is slain
(all of us will feel his pain)