Welcome to the New Dark Ages, Part 1

Welcome to the new dark ages! Where cowards live like kings While children rot in cages Condemned to suffer for the crime of being born And politicians preach that only they can save us From their mistakes And all the consequences of their failures Wielding words like weapons in an endless culture war Every accusation a confession of their true intentions Banning books and burning pages A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Something to be feared And something to be hated This is how the new dark age begins And when the lights go out We shall not see them lit again A new age of darkness Has now descended on us Like a swarm of locusts Bringing famine and disease A vicious cycle we seem doomed to repeat Banning books and burning pages A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Something to be feared And something to be hated This is how the new dark age begins And in our darkest hour We'll turn against each other We'd rather set the world on fire Than ever face the truth So beware the death of reason Herald of the burning season Banning books and burning pages A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Something to be feared And something to be hated This is how the new dark age begins

There is a special place in hell reserved for traitors And betrayers who sell-out their own Shameless deceivers, sick bottom feeders Buying their way into power Behind the throne Money always speaks with silver tongues Whispering its sweet, seductive song And even the virtuous cannot resist for too long Dragging them down with the back-stabbers, blood-suckers, boot-lickers Those who have no honour and no shame To the highest bidder goes the blame You made a deal, and bet your life Signed and sealed it's time to pay the price You claimed the rise Now own the fall It's time for you to pay the price Once and for all You got what you wanted Now you'll get what you deserve What did you ask for Caveat emptor Beware buyer's remorse You claimed the rise, now own the fall It's time to pay the piper You named your price, and sold your soul For thirty bits of silver Liar Traitor Judas It's time to pay for what you've done You claimed the rise Now own the fall It's time for you to pay the price Once and for all You got what you wanted Now you'll get what you deserve What did you ask for Caveat emptor Beware buyer's remorse

A lie goes round the world Before the truth is even heard Spreading like a virus Stoking doubt, provoking violence Sowing suspicion and planting the seeds Until we don't know who we can trust Or what to believe We're all connected We all consume We're all infected No-one is immune And as the lie takes root It will supplant the truth Over-writing and corrupting Everything Overwhelming information has become the new contagion Now there is no chance for separation Of the signal from the noise We're all connected We all consume We're all infected No-one is immune We're all addicted to Our viral feed We're all afflicted by This modern-day disease A modern plague, for a modern age There is no cure, there is no escape Transmission Infection Replication Spread