“TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS!” [Genre: Modern Metal | Alternative Metal | Melodic Metalcore | Powerful Female Lead | Orchestra & Choir] [Intro - Spoken over distant drums] Hey... You. Yeah... You. Tell me... What does it feel like... To live your whole life... Looking through someone else's eyes? Who handed you those blinders? Did you ever stop to ask... Why they fit so perfectly? --- [Verse 1 - Aggressive] Fed another headline. Fed another lie. Fed another enemy To justify the crime. Keep us scared. Keep us broke. Keep us fighting over smoke. While the wolves sit laughing In their towers made of gold. You point your finger Where they tell you to. Never at the hands That tighten every screw. You're swinging at reflections While the puppeteers hide. Calling it conviction... While they profit from the divide. --- [Pre-Chorus] Open... Your... Eyes. Truth doesn't fear questions. Only lies do. --- [Chorus - Huge & Melodic] TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS! What are you afraid to see? You don't have to think like me To finally think for yourself. TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS! Can't you hear humanity Begging through the deafening noise? We were never born To become somebody else's weapon. --- [Verse 2 - Heavy] You hate the poor. You hate the weak. You hate the stranger You've refused to meet. But the ones who taught you hatred Couldn't pick you from a crowd. You scream their slogans... They'll never say your name out loud. Another flag. Another tribe. Another reason To dehumanize. History is bleeding From the very same knife. Different century... Same damn fight. --- [Breakdown - Half spoken / Half screamed] Tell me... Who profits... When neighbors become enemies? Who gets richer... While families bury dreams? Who taught you compassion Was something to outgrow? Who convinced you Love makes you weak? Who benefits... When we forget... We're all trying To survive? --- [Breakdown Drop - Screamed] I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY! SHE IS NOT YOUR ENEMY! HE IS NOT YOUR ENEMY! THEY ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY! STOP... FIGHTING... THE WRONG... WAR!! --- [Bridge - Choir enters] Under every color... Every border... Every prayer... Every name... Every language... Every scar... Every heartbeat... We all arrive the same. We all leave the same. Everything between... Is what we choose. --- [Final Chorus - Biggest] TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS! Before another child Learns to inherit all our fear. TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS! Before another generation Mistakes division for survival. No kings. No masters. No billion-dollar saviors. Only people. Only hope. Only us. --- [Outro - Soft, almost whispered] Hey... You. Yeah... You. The world's been waiting... Not for another soldier. For another human. Take off your blinders.
