Genuine truth is found through self-exploration. When we accept others' answers to our own deeply-rooted questions, we accept a stranger's dictation of what our lives should be. What they profess as guidance becomes, instead, shackles on our potential, and a method of control to serve their own purposes. Many schools of thought hint that they offer a better life, but we do well to be suspicious if they support their messages with threats and fear. No living person knows what happens after death. This is a certainty of the human condition. So anyone that promises to know, beyond doubt, exactly how we got here and where we're going, is selling dishonesty. And especially when they command that an unkowable afterlife guarantees us eternal torment and suffering if we do not obey their rules during our mortal lives, we should use our own judgement and deem these lessons as unhealthy fairy-tales, beaten unjustly into malleable heads and unaccepting of simple questions to their authority. These strictures lead people in circles and prevent them from knowing themselves and engaging in life with more agency and curiosity. Their followers chase their own tails and shrug uncaringly at the wild beauty of life and the power of our own conscious minds that make us so unique among the world's creatures. To break with these traditions and forge a new path is the way to a better future.
lyrics
Lyrics
No truth can be lost forever
Only concealed, one day to be revealed
The tides of change they wash away
the unexplained filling empty hands with what remains
Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate
No more pacified by the promised everafter
We're here and now the sun shines down and exhumates
resurrecting from the underground
Break with outdated tradition
and reclaim your freedom singing
abnegation, revelation welcome the light
Their past becomes their future
We'll find our own way home
on the path that knows no hope
in idolizing forms misleading in their deaf repose
so we break away the thorns from rose
We are fed punishment always fearing for the end so our lives,
so confined, never speak with the divine
One day, their altars will fall and crumble to the Earth a fallacy to burn endless returns
No truth can be lost forever
only concealed, one day to be revealed
The tides of change, they wash away the unexplained
and what remains will fill their empty hands with fuller hearts and able brains
Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate
no more pacified by the promised everafter
we're here and now the sun shines down
and exhumates resurrecting from the underground
Their past becomes their future
we'll find our own way home on that path that knows
their past becomes their future we'll find our own way home
find our own way home
credits
from Non Sequitur,
track released March 19, 2019
Written by Raiju
Vocals: Scott Wagner
Guitar: Bobby Carroll
Guitar/Vocals: Sean Johnson
Bass: Max Coley
Drums : Vinnie Hecht
From the 2019 Release: "Non Sequitur"
Audio Production: Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios
