Rational Gaze - Meshuggah

Squint your eyes to see clearly

Blur reality to make it real

Let focus go from your deceiving eyes

To know what’s been concealed

We’ve all been blinded

Subjects to visual misinformation

A systematic denial of the crystalline

To see the fine grain, to read the hidden words

The context of parallel truth

Devoid of fragmentation

Our light-induced image of truth

Filtered blank of its substance

As our eyes won’t adhere to intuitive lines

Everything examined, separated, one thing at a time

The harder we stare

The more complete the disintegration

Dissolution

Eyes re-opened

Reasoning focalized

Receptors activated

Perspectives distorted

The ladder beyond our grasp

The twin-headed serpent forever hidden

Where’s the true knowledge

Where engines of the sane and insanity merge

The clarity

The unity

Reality untouchable, transparent

Invisible to our fixed, restricted fields of vision

Existence taken for granted

Absolute

Possessed, owned, controlled

By the common sense-infected rational gaze

Onward forever we walk among the ignorant

Never stray from the common lines