On Nostramo the dark taught its only law There was no justice left to save you Only fear [Verse 1] A child learned what the light could never teach him That mercy dies where law has already failed He watched the wolves wear the faces of the righteous And swore that terror was the only truth that scaled They gave him legions called it his salvation A weapon built from every nightmare he had known He did not ask to be the monster of creation He simply became the only voice this galaxy would fear [Pre-Chorus] Call us cruel call us cursed call us broken We call it the debt that was never paid One warning spoken is a thousand left unspoken This is the war that terror never made [Chorus] Fear is mercy Fear is peace One scream can silence an entire war We are not the sickness We are the release The cure you asked for then denied us for [Verse 2] Every corpse we hung was never hatred Every silence bought was never spite One body broken so a thousand soldiers weren't paraded Home in coffins through a father's sleepless night We did the math in blood while you did it in glory We paid the debt that no one else could bear And now you'd rewrite the ending of our story Erase the war you sent us there to wear [Chorus] Fear is mercy Fear is peace One scream can silence an entire war We are not the sickness We are the release The cure you asked for then denied us for [Bridge] You found me on a world that only fear could tame You saw what Nostramo already made of me You called it strength when it was winning you the game You called it sin the moment it stopped bending the knee You made us into fear itself Then judged us for what we became You knew exactly what You built Look at me and see yourself [Chorus] You taught us fear You called it justice Now you call it evil You taught us fear You named us monsters For becoming what You needed Did we betray You Or did we just become The truest reflection Of what You'd already done
