The New Eternity

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell] Mother, tell me, why do the waters make us sick?¹ Who bleeds the heavens making the clouds rain pestilence?² Dropping fever,³ like manna from the morning sky⁴ Gather your children and hold them as they die⁵ Panic humming in the palm of my hand Silent vectors injected with the curse of man⁶ Bodies dissected, heartbeats redirected⁷ The past was dead,⁸ why did we resurrect it?⁹ [Pre-Chorus: Thomas Freckleton] Strange fruit¹⁰ grows on the vine¹¹ of humankind Beneath a bright synthetic sky, I saw the future die [Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton] A web of wires in our mind Weaves an empire down our spine¹² I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Strange fruit is growing on the vine Beneath a bright synthetic sky I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity [Breakdown: Garrett Russell] Germinating extinction¹³ [Verse 2: Garrett Russell] The people unite when you dose¹⁴ them with fear¹⁵ Relinquish their will, let their objections disappear Crowds galvanized by vapid words¹⁶ and septic slurs¹⁷ Utterly transfixed¹⁸ by the fiction of the "greater good"¹⁹ Estranged in this age²⁰ we set sail to the stars Return to the earth still unaware of who we are²¹ We've come too far, we've come too far, we've come too far, it's all I know The darkness didn't die, no, we brought it home²² [Interlude: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton] I sowed a secret deep in the earth But despite the world it grew, I knew all things could be made new All things will be made new²³ [Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton] A web of wires in our mind Weaves an empire down our spine I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Strange fruit is growing on the vine Beneath a bright synthetic sky I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity [Outro: Garrett Russell] Cross the Great Divide and see Light and Dark collide in me Shake the shroud of secrecy²⁴ Uproot the grim hegemony²⁵ The new eternity