History Repeats Itself - Insurrection

Follow down the spiral path you take

Restarting from scratch.

devoured and reborn

Destroyed and rebuilt

In the steps of history’s mistakes

Inevitably crushed by the gears of consequence

As it was, so shall it be

Fail to change

As it was, so shall it be

For all time

Times of strife and storms of hate you bring

Stay in the dark, cover your ears, kneel in the mud

We shall keep the wheel of fate turning

Familiar events, blindfolded men, stabbing the air

Failure to learn, refuse to evolve, history repeats itself

As it was, so shall it be

Fail to change

As it was, so shall it be

For all time

Build a wicker-empire

The lamb, the wolf, both caged within

All set for the blaze to come

Waiting for a champion to emerge

And set the machine’s motion

To build and destroy once more

That which cannot change

Shall live from now until the end

Past mistakes are shared by all

It feeds on apathy: it bleeds the greyness of habit

And it becomes us all

Let the snake of infamy prevail

Swallow its tail coiling itself in for the kill

Status quo will lead the fools astray

Stagnation’s the gift wrapped in deceit back to the start

History repeats itself as surely as human nature

Will thrive to reach oblivion

History repeats itself hopelessly and thoroughly

Towards a most gruesome fate