Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Merchants of Deceit , by - Psycroptic. Song from the album Symbols of Failure, in the genre Release date: 30.04.2006
Record label: Psycro
Song language: English
Merchants of Deceit |
| They were watching… |
| Listening Ever patient awaiting the time |
| For they knew it would come it has always been so |
| Thus, forward they came… |
| An appeal to the heavens, spoken an age ago |
| Pleading for answers, offering all that was possessed |
| Shaman: scholars of the time close to the answer |
| Incapable of reaching perfect enlightenment — |
| Yet, help they would receive, at a price so immense, ambitious and selfish… |
| A mistake they should not have made |
| Our ancestors- our past has become our demise |
| Our ancestral representatives celebrated the arrival |
| The visitors from the sky… |
| Joyous with the knowledge that their appeal had been answered |
| These visitors — describing themselves as celestial gatherers, traders, |
| explorers |
| A half truth |
| Masking the deception beneath |
| Offering answers… |
| Knowledge and Truth… |
| But at a price, A fair exchange… |
| They requested life… |
| Aghast… |
| Apprehensive… |
| The forefathers refused |
| Negotiating; |
| the travellers explained that it would not be their lives; |
| Not those of the present era |
| It Would be the future populous: An age away: An age beyond imagination… |
| Our age |
| Nervously an agreement was made |
| The celestial ones prepared to reveal their knowledge with the select few to do |
| with as they saw fit |
| The chosen, schooled by the visitors from the sky not foreseeing the knowledge |
| that lag ahead |
| Not foreseeing the knowledge they would learn… |
| Unable to be purged from their mind… |
| Irreversible |
| Departing, the travellers were seen no more |
| The selected were left with knowledge unimaginable |
| Disturbed, overwhelmed — no choice but to cease their own existence |
| Their lives had become futile, with their infinite comprehension |
| Lives forfeit by their own trembling hands |
| Blood spilled instead of answers… |
| Long forgotten… |
| Unaware that we must uphold this pact… |
| A deal that exists despite the weakest of principals |
| They will fulfil a bizarre religious crusade |
| We belong to the celestial ones: The harvesters of the foolish… |
| Traders and gatherers they are: cunning in their methods |
| Exchanging what is required fur their spiritual needs our lives… |
| Any life unworthy… |
| Must be halted |
| Sustaining their faith |
| The unworthy are those who mishandle true insight |
| Betraying their future our planet, placed in total stasis… |
| With no meaningful continuation |
| Like countless before, and endless to come |
| This is how it will continue… |
| To save their own being |
| Giving a function, a purpose to their all-knowing lives |
| This is their belief… to weed out the feeble in the cosmos |
| Those who do not learn should not progress… |
| Those without understanding should not continue… |