Ghost Shaped People

A message in the bottle
Smashed right across your head
All those years of screaming out
The words you never read

Sucking on a xenon tit
All hail the cretin king
Apprentice to an idiot
A sycophantic dream

They say jump, you ask how high
And watch your freedom die

What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What's the cost of victory?

You always took the easy road
You always compromised
You never put the effort in
To read between the lines

Rutting in a garbage pit
Embrace the weaker breed
Join the pack of rabid dogs
And lick the hand that beats

On the cattle car, full speed ahead
Your ticket to regret

What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What's the cost of victory?

A screaming paradigm of dysfunction
A superficial sea of reaction
A violent passion surrogate
You tied the noose around your own neck

What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What is the cost of victory?

What will you believe?
Who will you betray?
What is the cost of victory?
The cost of victory