No greater tyranny can there be
Than slave over slave
The acrid taste is bitter sweet

To cast off shackles
And gain liberty


To love one's enemy is easy
When the enemy is guised as a friend
I refuse to submit once again

To the whelming gaze
No more tyranny


Now I stand outside
Trackless and unburdened
Now I declare

The scales have fallen away

Once awakened you cannot return

The dancing shadows lose appeal
When passionate stupor becomes broken
The old ways can bring no peace


As knowledge quickens
The soul unto wisdom

It raises the slave
Out of the herd


No greater love has any man but this
That the machines of tyranny he will destroy
Those made to beat the soul to serve

Mechanisms that captive and blind in slavery

The eyes that once I blinded

Have been quickened with new sight
Empty sockets perceive not
Shadow play but noonday sun


Too long did I cower
I had become a slave

Now set free from control
Trackless and unburdened