Violent history of the substance known as man Through the annals of the universe is best described as cancer Cells that permeate the vital organs Greed is the only antioxidant For what is never needed Is all that's ever had The porous degradation Multiplied by the acquiring of everything Awash in the great material continuum it shall provide Bowing to the will of the mercantile Navigating through the rocky chasms of desire From have to want and back again The redistribution of filth marks a shift in power As those once crushed under iron fist are given control Individual freedom and liberties are given appropriate dialogue And the world spins on the delusional axis of peace We're left to devolve as the world burns the same theocracy There is no shift from greed Peering through the opposite sides of the spectrum Only magnifies the view of the rotten core It's not a matter of opposing, ideology It's the fundamental human stain It's not a matter of opposing, ideology It's the fundamental human Violent history of the substance known as man Through the annals of the universe is best described as cancer Cells that permeate the vital organs Greed is the only antioxidant For what is never needed Is all that's ever had The porous degradation Multiplied by the acquiring of everything