Awake Among the Sleeping

[Intro] Knowledge makes a man Unfit to be a slave Not by sword Not by flame But by the fracture In the name [Verse 1] I was born beneath the mouths That taught me how to sleep Fed with hollow scripture From the hands that owned the key Every face around me smiled With empty eyes of clay Marching through the open gate And calling chains the way There was a book beneath the dust There was an eye above the page There was a truth they buried deep Inside a golden cage [Pre-Chorus] Do not read Do not rise Do not question Do not see But the letters turned to fire And the fire entered me [Chorus] Break the chain Inside the mind Wake the slave They left behind Open the eye Beneath the skin Knowledge is the wound Where freedom enters in I will not kneel I will not crawl I was not born To serve the wall [Verse 2] They painted fear as holiness And silence as control Sold obedience as virtue Then demanded for my soul One among the many Colored wrong beneath the sun Awake inside the sleeping herd The exile had begun [Pre-Chorus] Do not speak Do not shine Do not leave The sacred line But the symbols opened inward And the prison turned divine [Chorus] Break the chain Inside the mind Wake the slave They left behind Open the eye Beneath the skin Knowledge is the wound Where freedom enters in I will not kneel I will not crawl I was not born To serve the wall [Instrumental Interlude] Tribal drums and bass riff in 7/8 Dark harmonics, slow heavy build [Bridge] Scientia Hominem Servituti Inhabilem facit Not the crown Not the throne Not the shepherd Not the stone I have seen I have read I have broken What they fed [Final Chorus] Break the chain Inside the mind Wake the slave They left behind Open the eye Beneath the skin Knowledge is the wound Where freedom enters in Break the chain Break the name Break the lie Break the shame Knowledge makes a man Unfit to be a slave [Outro] Lux ex cognitione Light from knowing The book remains open The eye does not sleep