Cut Your Ties

Can you feel the tension rise? Cut your ties With those who keep on pullin' the wool over your eyes Don't hear dem pack of lies! Cut your ties For now, you see the schemes they try to disguise Touch the skies, cut your ties For now the scales have just fallen from your eyes If you wanna get wise, cut your ties For they don't care about the sufferer's cries For they want more than your silver and gold Free your soul from the dead hands of downpressors How long will we roam under Babylon hold? Emotionally scrambled by smoke and mirrors We cannot idly stand by and hope for a miracle (miracle, miracle) Would you let dem put into your minds That your vision is chimerical (chimerical, chimerical) Can you feel the tension rise? Cut your ties With those who keep on pullin' the wool over your eyes Don't hear dem pack of lies, cut your ties For they don't care about the sufferer's cries Who's really pulling the strings? Let's do your choice, you can be the master of your life Tell me who's really clipping your wings? Let's raise your voice, never let dem trample on your rights Let's fly away from overconsuming society Don't stay dem partner in crime You can live another way, you can bloom in sobriety Build your own paradise Pyromaniac firemen Pyromaniac firemen Pyromaniac firemen Unleash demoniac violence Would you remain a bystander? (Stander) While dem spreading propaganda (propaganda) Would you remain by stander Dem acting with no candor! Can you feel the tension rise? Cut your ties With those who keep on pullin' the wool over your eyes Don't hear dem pack of lies, cut your ties For now, you see the schemes they try to disguise Touch the skies, cut your ties For now the scales have just fallen from your eyes If you wanna get wise, cut your ties see For they don't care about the sufferer's cries (cries, cries) Cut your ties Cut your ties, ties Pyromaniac firemen Pyromaniac firemen No longer swallow dem shallow words Won't be governed by gallows birds