Requiem for a Strawman

from Damnatio Memoriae by Grethor

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Inconvenient to those born
Chosen by divine right
Those born under a yoke are robbed of such sight
Kept in the darkness of empty promises of serendipity
Pushed into the shadows, kept in a prison of endless complicity
Endless in its circular, tranquil surface of banality
But failure in its argument for its own iniquity
Depravity becomes virtue, the blessed without the burden of empathy
Girded loins of disposable lives
Grateful for the boot heel
Patronized by a mouth-piece,
Doling out death with uncompromising zeal
His promise of a higher stature just by virtue of birthplace
The Lord’s chosen within hallowed border
A testament to His grace
Separate from the mansion
So shall his servants burn
But His word is the bond
As the wheels of propaganda turn
It is because it was willed to be
Made into an object formed to perfect malignancy
It was born from nothing
It was forged by the hammer
Of prophecy
Made law by the power
Of redundant mania
And a tradition of false equivalencies

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from Damnatio Memoriae, released January 26, 2018

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Black/death metal from Northern Virginia. Founded in 2007.

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