Necessary Suffering

Then without a whisper
The skies of the Earth turned black

Cracks in the order appear
As the end-time call resounds
All logic swept away
Just so their profits can be made

Still, their ships set sail
On plastic seas exhaled
And death fuels the dream
As children slave in sites unseen

Luxury exceeds
And above all, wealth decrees
"This land is yours to reap
And human life is always cheap"
Still, their stocks will rise
As billions swarm immobilized with dread

On their behest, rights of men
Arcane laws, dividends
Septic cults, cryptic tools
Praise the palace fools

Sycophants toe the line
Speak in tongues, orphic rhymes
Black and red, bleeding cash
Nothing here will ever last

And each and all must know their place
Nothing here to contemplate
Fear and death, death and rot
Few will have, and many will have not

It's necessary suffering
From servitude to severity
This sacrifice and savagery
It's necessary suffering

Scorched earth, bread lines
Shenzhen suicides
Caustic, dead frost
Insects holocaust

CO2, salted wounds
Surplus opportune
Work drones, solar winds
The work of progress has no sense nor end

It's necessary suffering
From servitude to severity
This sacrifice and savagery
It's necessary suffering

All lives disposable
Like cattle for the abattoir
So it goes
Ashes to embers all

Embers to ashes
It's necessary
So necessary
Suffering