Extol - Paradigms Lyrics

The worship of creation
Seeming endless
But it will end
And every knee shall bow

Thoughts of a coincidental existence
And a futureless world corrodes into the
Spinal chord of the narcissistic man
A paradigm shift for worse

My ego is my god
Given authority by the enlightenment
Of science,
The enlightenment of the age of freedom

Freedom - the name in which we legalize all
The name in which we tolerate all

Credibility for truth, image for substance
Weakness and failure
Unbearable elements in life
Subtly opposed through an endless flow of

Constantly replaced trends, neither allowed
To mature nor to fade
The surroundings,
A mirror reflecting the signals

Of admiration that makes my identity
A constant egocentricity providing a
Purging of anything threatening popularity

The peak of this shallowness
Displayed by the so-called stars
In their quest for self-actualization
This beautiful people experiencing

The illusion of narcissistic prosperity,
Uncritically and boundlessly admired,
Simply for their own sake