Knowledge Is Power (the Power of Despair)

[VERSE ONE]
If life were a rainbow, it'd be painted in tones of grey.
Smiles mimmick security, but sincerity's gone astray.
Nomadic desires surface; an antidote for the void.
Dreams may prosper through the day, but ambition's been destroyed.

[BRIDGE]
Give me knowledge, give me power;
Give me ignorance and bliss.
Take the thoughts provoked by cancer,
Leave me pure and chivalrous.

[CHORUS]
If knowledge gives us power, it's the power of despair.
If ignorance is bliss, it must devour all your cares.
If love is social suicide, we're born with intentions of a gun.
Lost in all the emptiness, to our sorrows we've succumbed.

[VERSE TWO]
If my life were contagious, I'd be spreading a disease.
Smiles mock sobriety, for which the devil holds the key.
This inflation on contentment; brought to life with age,
separates the blinded from those who fail to turn the page.

[BRIDGE]
Give me knowledge, give me power;
Give me ignorance and bliss.
Take the thoughts provoked by cancer,
Leave me pure and chivalrous.

[CHORUS]
If knowledge gives us power, it's the power of despair.
If ignorance is bliss, it must devour all your cares.
If love is social suicide, we're born with intentions of a gun.
Lost in all the emptiness, to our sorrows we've succumbed.

[BREAKDOWN THING]
The past is the present is the future is the past,
An apocalyptic instant; an illusion felt to last.

Your birth is your life is your death is your birth,
Your life lived in a moment; then decays like your self worth.

[CHORUS]
If knowledge gives us power, it's the power of despair.
If ignorance is bliss, it must devour all your cares.
If love is social suicide, we're born with intentions of a gun.
Lost in all the emptiness, to our sorrows we've succumbed.