Rotten institution
Wash out the red with black and white

Fear is a way of life
Around the corner it is there
Steroid machinery
To smash tomorrow’s prayers

In the mouth of madness
And you won’t like what you see
Vicious entertainment
Hail the misery machine

Dead man in the river
Bound hands and feet
Ruled suicide

Behind the silence
Danger and disease will breed below
Dead last in hearts and minds
Despised and rightly so

In the mouth of madness
And you won’t like what you see
Human lives caught in the teeth
Of the misery machine

And every day, the taste of fear
(In the ruthlessness of cold)
There’s no mercy for us here
(Beneath the waves, how many souls?)

And daylight
Doesn’t even stand a chance
Against the crooked shadows
That you cast