When push comes to shove the future won't Do it and I'll prove it and you will use it For every mind connected, a doomed reality protected The oppressor's mouth consume our Resources until there is nothing left In every threat there is a new one beside them, recurring, livid I am an anti-present - A paradoxical thought in an ending theme I am an anti-present - A nail in the mind's eye A collective narrative For fear and greed and The mindless cold Pushes you back into the fold The famine, the fear, the hate that stirs Evolving the dignity or the herds precious sanity, oh the vanity Technocratic clarity A god inside a wire The masses in awe beside her I am the anti-present - A paradoxical thought in an ending theme I am the anti-present - A nail in the mind's eye A sickened distortion in time, misconduct beyond good and evil A trial by fire, humiliation of the aeons A stoic statue of the failures eclipse the sun The mauled, the maimed - nothing more than ashes and soil A sickened distortion in time, misconduct beyond good and evil A trial by fire, humiliation of the aeons A stoic statue of the failures eclipse the sun The mauled, the maimed nothing more than ashes and oil We are anti-present - A paradoxical thought in an ending theme We are anti-present - A nail in the mind's eye