Cerebral Vipers Lyrics

One winter a farmer found a "carpet viper" stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, he placed it in his bosom. The viper was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactors, inflecting on him a mortal wound. "Oh" cried the farmer with his last breath, "I am rightfully served for pitying a scoundrel."
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

A crow in great want for food saw a serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The serpent turning about, bit the crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed:
"Oh unhappy me! Who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my failure (and destruction)."

Reckoning? Acknowledge the pitfall of power
never!
superficial
to honor the ego, the blue blood devours
devours the worthy
devours the just and capable
forever the darkness

To act the king, to act the god - false
to rationalize lives for profit
nepotism
external preservation of family
"Hell"

To walk the right
proliferate the lies
dominate the righteous and kind

With gold in hand
minions cower
followers empower
virgins deflowered
"Hell"