Paradigms Lyrics - Extol

The worship of creation 

Seeming endless 

But it will end 

And every knee shall bow 

Thoughts of a coincidental existence 

And a futureless world corrodes into the 

Spinal chord of the narcissistic man 

A paradigm shift for worse 

My ego is my god 

Given authority by the enlightenment 

Of science, 

The enlightenment of the age of freedom 

Freedom - the name in which we legalize all 

The name in which we tolerate all 

Credibility for truth, image for substance 

Weakness and failure 

- unbearable elements in life 

Subtly opposed through an endless flow of 

Constantly replaced trends, neither allowed 

To mature nor to fade 

The surroundings, 

A mirror reflecting the signals 

Of admiration that makes my identity 

A constant egocentricity providing a 

Purging of anything threatening popularity 

The peak of this shallowness 

Displayed by the so-called stars 

In their quest for self-actualisation 

This beautiful people experiencing 

The illusion of narcissistic prosperity, 

Uncritically and boundlessly admired, 

Simply for their own sake