Complete Control

No hope nor reason

Just thirteen years against the grain

Broke, burned and branded

No greater cause called my name

Caged like a cipher

Doomed to dwell a dead-end life

The 'way it is' or conspiracy?

Wherefore and why this world should be?

Now through wool-encrusted eyes I see

Their malfeasance and their sophistry

As the tentacles of lies unfold

In this complete control

Rife with division

Shreds of truth, infect the maze

Prophets spew derision

As empires, wax and wane

Who am I in this?

A hero's song or Caliban?

Plant the seed, pull the strings

My will is all that's left of me

Now through wool-encrusted eyes I see

Their malfeasance and their sophistry

As the tentacles of lies unfold

In this complete control

Now killers walk among us

And skeptics blindly stare

As power grips insidious

All that's real fades into the air