Antithesis - Breeding The Beast Lyrics
God's cruel joke has blown up in our faceDamned from creation, mankind a great mistakeMan had a purpose, obey the laws in stoneBut man in his defiance, had made laws of his ownRisen from the clay and dirtMan was born unto the earthMaster of his destiny, blessed his divinityMan has a free will to whatever he may chooseMan has a conscience he chooses not to useMan has the knowledge to envision and createTo mastermind barbaric crimes and violent acts of hateSo graceful and articulate yet morbid and grotesqueInstead of moving forward man seems to have digressedThe lion licks his chops and sinks his teeth into his preyThe vultures over top strip clean the bones of the remainsSo cruel and so savage, the nature of the beastThe nature of mankind, more brutal than the feastMan is not an animal, too advanced to be evolvedModern man a breed much worseModern man is a monsterHopeless, it's sad but true, we are hopelessWe had our chance, we turn our backsNow it's too late. We cannot save ourselvesWe can't take back what we've doneWe can't bring back what is goneHope, pray, somehow, somedayMankind will change and try to beMore humanWe live our lives fearing ourselvesAll species beneath us will fear us as wellMan chokes the sky and poisons the seaMakes waste of this world of which God make him KingGod help us all, from grace we will fallAnd in our plummet we reveal our many flawsMan rapes the world in order to progressOur careless ways will end with our collapseTry seeing the world through our children's eyesWe leave behind a legacy of liesMan is a plague, a pestilen
