He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
We we're blind and we couldn't conceive the color of blood
This crimson flood soaking the ground
We stare in shock as the world unveils its true features to us
You then exclaim "where is God now?"
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"
The virtuous dies as well as the sinful one
Death strikes all life, blind in its random ways
In essence, we contradict the conception of a watchful shaper
And still we consider being observed and closely monitored
Primitive we remain
We were devised to enjoy trials
The choice has never been ours
We are inclined to violence
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain(forever feed on pain)
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?(Programmed for boundless rage)
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained(The poison is never drained)
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"(Divine)
This crimson flood soaking the ground
We stare in shock as the world unveils its true features to us
You then exclaim "where is God now?"
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"
The virtuous dies as well as the sinful one
Death strikes all life, blind in its random ways
In essence, we contradict the conception of a watchful shaper
And still we consider being observed and closely monitored
Primitive we remain
We were devised to enjoy trials
The choice has never been ours
We are inclined to violence
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"
You ask me "why do we forever feed on pain(forever feed on pain)
And act like mindless fiends programmed for boundless rage?(Programmed for boundless rage)
The carnage never cease, the poison is never drained(The poison is never drained)
For this, should we blame the maker of everything divine?"(Divine)
Lyrics submitted by flame666x
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Or were we deliberately designed this way, by a "watchful shaper"?
The lyrics of the song are more ambiguous than you'd think. But the title of the song suggests that Benjamin is leaning towards the latter. But he still poses the topic as a question, rather than making a statement: "SHOULD we blame the maker of everything divine?"
It's up to you to draw that conclusion.
However let me say this: If God is an automaton, and we're created in His image, we too are ALSO automatons - we are not free, we are totally determined to be evil and behave like "mindless fiends" as Benjamin puts it. But if we're totally determined as automatons, and we're pre-wired to think and behave the way that we do - we are merely computers: data in, evil response out.
But we have to ask ourselves: was Sybreed FREE to write this song? Was Benjamin FREE to compose these lyrics, out of his own volition? Are we, his audience, FREE to listen to this song, and enjoy it for it's marvellousness?
If so, we are rising above the bondage of total subjectivity. And the moment you do this, you're violating determinism.
...We're evil because we WANT TO BE.