Barnabas

Subterfuge

Barnabas


Survival is not guaranteed in strange, tumultuous times 
When the quest of our humanity strays from the narrow line 
The cause of world insanities rests deeply on the few 
Whose self-inflicted vanities require your servitude 

In days of lies and subterfuge are times most opportune 
To drain the living aptitude from those who feel entombed 
A species cannot tolerate predation from within 
With power indiscriminate and lack of discipline 

So with the captains of these mighty nations awash in a sea of blind mistrust 
The man on the street receives information designed to conceal the obvious 
Throughout this madness, an offer of true and lasting peace 
To soldier and philosopher, demoniac and priest 

And when the curtain falls around us in megaton torment 
Because the kings of men have failed again in obscene impudence 
It will only be the ending of a strange, tumultuous dream 
For those who've found the Saviour, waiting and willing