The I’s of Evil / Antichrist (6:45)
The I's of Evil / Antichrist
Chris Chandler and Stephon Moody / Paul Benoit
If you look into the eyes of evil
and do not see yourself in its reflection,
you have not really looked.
I am the antichrist
nobody loves me
Nobody cares
We've willfully walked down the spiral
into a hell of our own making.
Let us make it be for a reason.
Let us make it be for the purpose of looking into the eyes of evil,
So that we may see our own reflection.
It would be a disservice to forget that
our own self righteous stances
are always mirrored in the eyes of another.
I don’t wanna complain
it’s so boring
but what else can I do/
I am the antichrist
Our core values
have been exposed
leaving a hollow foundation
longing to be filled
- and is being filled -
but filled only with a vacuum
sucking more emptiness and divisiveness.
The vacant core expands.
Hell has always been at the center of the earth,
however, the earth's core is now hollow and
hell is emptiness.
No amount of finger pointing is going to get us out.
Unless, our finger are pointed at ourselves.
Real eyes, realize, real lies.
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody, Now.
The only time
I feel like I am beginning to extricate myself
from this nightmare
is when I honestly feel like I love someone,
more than I disagree with them.
I truly believe,
there is something deeper going on here
As William Butler Yates wrote,
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost.
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."
I’m gonna blame it on my father
he never loved me
he never cared
A nation founded on genocide and slavery
that also touts itself as the freest on earth
is a lie that we have all been living.
The centre cannot hold.
Both parties are complicit.
The centre cannot hold.
The lesser of two evils,
leaves us only with the evil of two lessers.
The centre cannot hold.
Our work
is more important than just getting
the left or right in office again.
It's all of us revamping our assumptions
and seeing people as being more
than whatever ideological category they fit in,
perpetuating the falsely constructed
binary confines
of the computer age....
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
If you sew the seeds for paradise
i’m gonna dig them up ‘cause I’m the Anti Christ
Black, white; democrat, republican; male, female;
gay, straight;
mask, no mask; nonviolent, violent,
stand, kneel;
American League, National League.
...perpetuating the falsely constructed
binary confines
of the computer age
onto an increasingly - obviously - non-binary world.
We've been conditioned to do this by the capitalist media
(which literally depends on these binary controversies to ensure it's own continuance)
Once, media depended upon the dollars of the solvent
to purchase ads catered to the solvent,
as they peddled points of view
that aligned with the solvent.
The centre cannot hold.
But today,
Media depends upon the micro pennies of the insolvent
to purchase click bait
by peddling binary battles to the broke and bankrupt.
The centre cannot hold.
If you have a point of view,
you can find someone to further it,
and listen only to them.
The centre cannot hold.
While this may seem like a completely absurd situation,
it perfectly mirrors the complete impotence of both parties,
and sadly reveals the emptiness at the center of the American Dream,
The centre cannot hold.
We have been trying to fill the emptiness
at the core of the American Dream
with materialism,
Hallmark holidays,
Sports, and endless info-tainment,
which has become a romanesque spectacle,
complete with music critics
selling click-bait
as they debate
with vicious vulgar vigor
the finer points
of Nero's fiddle playing.
Chris Chandler and Stephon Moody / Paul Benoit
If you look into the eyes of evil
and do not see yourself in its reflection,
you have not really looked.
I am the antichrist
nobody loves me
Nobody cares
We've willfully walked down the spiral
into a hell of our own making.
Let us make it be for a reason.
Let us make it be for the purpose of looking into the eyes of evil,
So that we may see our own reflection.
It would be a disservice to forget that
our own self righteous stances
are always mirrored in the eyes of another.
I don’t wanna complain
it’s so boring
but what else can I do/
I am the antichrist
Our core values
have been exposed
leaving a hollow foundation
longing to be filled
- and is being filled -
but filled only with a vacuum
sucking more emptiness and divisiveness.
The vacant core expands.
Hell has always been at the center of the earth,
however, the earth's core is now hollow and
hell is emptiness.
No amount of finger pointing is going to get us out.
Unless, our finger are pointed at ourselves.
Real eyes, realize, real lies.
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody, Now.
The only time
I feel like I am beginning to extricate myself
from this nightmare
is when I honestly feel like I love someone,
more than I disagree with them.
I truly believe,
there is something deeper going on here
As William Butler Yates wrote,
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost.
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."
I’m gonna blame it on my father
he never loved me
he never cared
A nation founded on genocide and slavery
that also touts itself as the freest on earth
is a lie that we have all been living.
The centre cannot hold.
Both parties are complicit.
The centre cannot hold.
The lesser of two evils,
leaves us only with the evil of two lessers.
The centre cannot hold.
Our work
is more important than just getting
the left or right in office again.
It's all of us revamping our assumptions
and seeing people as being more
than whatever ideological category they fit in,
perpetuating the falsely constructed
binary confines
of the computer age....
Come on Come on Come on and love Somebody
If you sew the seeds for paradise
i’m gonna dig them up ‘cause I’m the Anti Christ
Black, white; democrat, republican; male, female;
gay, straight;
mask, no mask; nonviolent, violent,
stand, kneel;
American League, National League.
...perpetuating the falsely constructed
binary confines
of the computer age
onto an increasingly - obviously - non-binary world.
We've been conditioned to do this by the capitalist media
(which literally depends on these binary controversies to ensure it's own continuance)
Once, media depended upon the dollars of the solvent
to purchase ads catered to the solvent,
as they peddled points of view
that aligned with the solvent.
The centre cannot hold.
But today,
Media depends upon the micro pennies of the insolvent
to purchase click bait
by peddling binary battles to the broke and bankrupt.
The centre cannot hold.
If you have a point of view,
you can find someone to further it,
and listen only to them.
The centre cannot hold.
While this may seem like a completely absurd situation,
it perfectly mirrors the complete impotence of both parties,
and sadly reveals the emptiness at the center of the American Dream,
The centre cannot hold.
We have been trying to fill the emptiness
at the core of the American Dream
with materialism,
Hallmark holidays,
Sports, and endless info-tainment,
which has become a romanesque spectacle,
complete with music critics
selling click-bait
as they debate
with vicious vulgar vigor
the finer points
of Nero's fiddle playing.