This wasn’t the Vision

THE VEIL / BURN IT DOWN [INTRO] Static on the wire… Signal corrupted… Truth removed. We built this machine to serve us— Now it feeds. You feel it? GOOD. [VERSE 1] I saw the dream on a shining shore, Now it bleeds through the cracks in the core. He smiles on screens, selling borrowed peace, While lighting the fuse underneath our feet. Points at ghosts, gives the fire a name, Turns our fear into profit and blame. City lights glow but the backstreets choke, Every promise we had goes up in smoke. [PRE-CHORUS] I tried to scream but the sound won’t rise, Drowned in a sea of perfected lies— [CHORUS] Break it down! Burn the veil away! We’re standing on the edge of a world decayed! In the name of the ones denied, We won’t let this dream just bleed and die! This wasn’t the vision, this wasn’t the plan— Just power dressed up for the common man! [VERSE 2] Kitchen light flickers, a bill unpaid, A mother counts what the month won’t save. Kids fall asleep to the sound of doubt, While buses at dawn take the neighbors out. Fields turn to dust in a trader’s war, While suits raise glasses behind closed doors. Every headline cuts a little more— Still they tell us what it’s all for. [INDUSTRIAL INSERT] Compliance required. Emotion denied. Dissent detected. Prepare to divide. [CHORUS] Break it down! Burn the veil away! We’re standing on the edge of a world decayed! In the name of the ones denied, We won’t let this dream just bleed and die! This wasn’t the vision, this wasn’t the plan— Just power dressed up for the common man! [VERSE 3] He spoke of freedom, wore it like a crown, Built his empire as it all burned down. Hospitals dim and the classrooms crack, Truth gets buried and never comes back. Deals in shadows, a whisper, a threat, Every promise another regret. I lost my voice in the machine’s scream— Now I don’t know what’s left of the dream. [BRIDGE] They say peace is won… …but the fires still grow. Democracy bends— You can feel it break slow. How much more— [BREAKDOWN] Strip it down! Tear it apart! You built this cage around our hearts! NO GODS! — NO KINGS! JUST WIRES! — AND STRINGS! You sold the truth for hollow crowns— Now watch it all come crashing down! [FINAL CHORUS] Break it down! Burn the veil away! We’re rising from the wreck of yesterday! In the name of the ones denied, We are the voice you buried alive! This was the warning you never read— Now we’re the fire you tried to dead! [OUTRO] Signal lost… Control… failed… We remember.