Dancers To A Discordant System Lyrics - Obzen - Meshuggah

Dancers to a Discordant system 

Listen to the hidden tune 

The essence of lies in note defined 

As we dance to the dissonant sway 

The choreography refined 

Will subdued and shackled 

Reason washed aside 

Pledging our love to the chains 

Our ignorance ever amplified 

Blooded hands lead the waltz 

We're trapped in the out of tune swirl 

Still we set the show on continue mode 

And dance to a discordant system 

We accept the nails we're fed 

Lies sharpened to bleed us silent 

Muted from the pains 

Defiance employed in vain 

Any attempts to leave the dance 

Invisibly suppressed 

Questions unasked, we learn the steps 

Eyes shut like all the rest 

Unsuspecting, willing, blind, controllable herd 

Pawns in a covert game conducted by hands we trust 

Dominated, compliant and deceptable 

Confident that we matter, we don't see that we're but dust 

Committed to a lie we cannot see, cannot know nor comprehend 

We're all asinine drones kept in the dark, kept in line 

Confined, bereft of reason 

Withering in toxicity 

The deadly fumes deceit 

And we all reek of complicity 

Humbled, brought to our knees 

By the weight of our own guilt 

Our innocent ways the catalyst 

To injustice and inhumanity 

We dance, to appease 

Compete in stupidity 

Obscured faces file our points 

Numbers fed to the machine 

Still we stand in line for the next show 

The human spine liquefied 

What are we, but stupefied 

Dancers to a discordant system 

We believe, so we're misled 

We assume, so we're played 

We confide, so we're deceived 

We trust, so we're betrayed