Shackled by greed Herded like cattle, subhuman filth Regarded as a means to feed corruption Branded by the Mark of Cain A sign from God to reveal the fallen A creation inferior Lashed and flayed Whipped and slain Hearts of stone swallow living flesh The Word to justify Abominable acts Their purported light makes clear The depths of darkness Centuries of abhorrence Mitigated but slightly The physical scourge Gives way to mental torment The icon of bondage resurfaces With a different face All of humanity now enslaved By the ones who sit on mountains of gold Peering below on the valley of peasants The helpless, the powerless Hearts corrupted and blinded by the illusion That this life is measured by wealth and the material In their eyes, we all bear the mark Signifying our status As fodder to be trampled upon Goaded, prodded, processed Fed into a cycle of servitude Trapped beneath an impossible burden A vain effort to satiate the gluttonous abyss Of the ones who lust for power The ultimate charade The charlatans propagate Faith in freedom Amounting to unending deceit A million miles from truth The road forms a divide A schism among us Brother against brother While they laugh down at us all