Damned Nation

Satanic rituals pervade some
wealthy individuals domiciles.

Nothing new to see here...
Just boredom and doubt?

Tweaking their hold on the worldly
Is what they're about

Got their hands on the reigns, calling shots...
Making wagers on wall street

Got me wondering to my frustration
Working my life for a belief, gone?

Sitting here thinking...
What does it take to damn a nation?

Should corruption, degradation of justice,
Artistic freedom, be rising signs

Hatred for any or no reason ...game
Open season to air perceived grievances

Some folks calling for another civil war
Haven't we been there before

Just who would it profit?
Or might this just be a coverup

For a new power grab?
To the victor go the spoils

Let the poor fight among themselves
A familiar brass ring

In a realm of cancerous corruption
Has leading the world in disgrace

Ever entered your mind

That You be seeing
The power of suggestion at its peak

And for the curious
go to the honeymoon suit

For a taste of the forbidden fruit
a hallucination, a drug

Where you can fall
under the influence

Of the sweet disgrace
of the power of seduction

If an omnipotent god,
Looked upon the situation

Should he approve of this?
Would he give it a nod?

Hell no! If you perceive truth
As a destination, not a distraction

Would the nation shake its head and heart
With frustration and doubt?

Does it even enter your mind
Something... Has gone terribly wrong?

Could it be said your cult worship savior
Looks into a mirror... And smiles?

To celebrate the pure love of domination
A self-portrait you have made?

Does it include perversions so intense
Using children as sexual toys?

Of people predaceous
Roaming the world

Finding the destruction
Of innocent souls salacious

Would it be treating people
Who work your fields like slaves?

Terms like reprobates and retrogrades
Bring you joy?

Looking further down the road we're on
Seems to be leading straight to hell

Where fallen heroes are erased
And false prophets are raised

To rise from their graves
To be worshipped/praised

Marking ill progress
made?

Is that
what it takes?

To damn
a nation

(Pause)

Or am i mistaken?

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