Who are we to follow? If no living person yet knows the truth of our mortal situation, are we doomed to toil in solitude, or can we work in common with each other? If we are to pick leaders, we are wise to choose ones who will not deceive us. A good leader empowers their people, rather than keeping them in the dark with promises of "I know what's best". A good leader embraces questions, rather than avoiding or punishing them as challenges to his authority. This way, we can see that power is shared to some degree in an enlightened community. Perhaps not everyone should lead the charge, but a good leader will help each individual feel that they are capable of doing so. If everyone feels the power to lead, they will also feel the responsibility of leading righteously. Then, they become good leaders of their own lives, empowered in the true sense to make good decisions and become the best version of what they desire to be – not idle, uninterested followers, but neither
self-obsessed tyrants.
lyrics
Lyrics
Dear love,
There’s something too dear for us to sacrifice
I know the price for such egregious cries
but my mindsets failed to accept these lies
We’ve bowed to unholy men,
now they hear me as they kneel
One hand wondering why,
the other one sailing ships to the sky.
Breeding out. God, why even try?
The world is blind to your deafening cries
Our thoughts were picked from a hive
Another free thought left out to die
Rip off the veils and open your eyes
We’ve sent our children off to a lie.
Strangers return to see what I’ve wrote,
I'll plead out with every tear down my throat.
Are we the outcasts of society?
Or are there others who think like me?
Remembering it's only skin.
They break through the clouds.
Flee with me, insanity is staying here on your damn knees.
Psycho cybernetic lies we’re all gunna die.
(I'm down here)
Pay no mind!
Not this time.
Your world will now accept
the line I revoke,
through cannon smoke.
The ends are justified.
I'm through giving up, through giving up
I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me
I'm through giving up, through giving up
I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me.
Impossible is just a word small men throw around.
Who find it easier to live in a world that they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact, it is an option.
Look it straight in the eye.
Grab it.
Now we must decide.
Do we have the strength and the bravery of society to release this demon trapped in me?
We haven’t begun to understand.
Like cybernetic beings torn worlds away.
Let's open up design and misery.
Show me what's there to become one.
Illuminate your room just like the Sun.
Love,
have we forgotten.
That his eyes are kin.
From nowhere to now here.
I am only justifying lies.
For I am, that I am.
We have never witnessed my life.
Idle hands, devil's land.
Ego so embarrassed by death.
Death and life are undone
by tongue.
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
