A Subtle Violence Songtext / Lyric

vacant gazes of the rank and file

minds in atrophy

surging numbers of indifference

do you exist

or appear to be






all of you

brimming with this stale life

the dream is over

the dream is dead this time



your dream is dead this time



sunken faces, shallow listless lives

currents of lethargy

detached masses, in their sleep

recall the anguish

that once sustained