Hymn to Madness

"We interrupt this program...
Reports of mass hysteria are flooding in...
Citizens are reportedly... singing."

Clockwork brains in a tick-tock cage
Pushing pencils on a minimum wage
They sold the future for a cheaper price
Now they're praying to a god of ice
Logical fallacies, digital disease
Scratching at the walls just to feel the breeze
The sane are silent, the mad are loud
Building their thrones on a screaming crowd

I feel the crack inside my skull (inside my skull!)
The truth is getting dull (so dull!)
The mirror shows a twisted grin
The war outside... is about to begin!

HEAR THE HYMN! (Stop!) TO MADNESS!
Rip the seams of your own consciousness!
HEAR THE HYMN! (Stop!) TO MADNESS!
There's no cure for this glorious sickness!
(Backing vocals: "Hymn! Hymn! Hymn!")
Raise your voice 'til your reason dies!
With a scream that shatters the skies!
It’s the only truth we possess...
This sacred... HYMN... TO MADNESS!

Politicians with a plastic smile
Preachin' virtue on a landfill pile
Generals drawing lines in the sand
While the reaper holds his bony hand
I read the news and I lose my mind
Every headline is a different kind
Of a joke that’s written in blood and pain
Tell me, doctor, am I insane?

The voices scream inside my brain! (inside my brain!)
It's driving me insane! (so insane!)
The asylum walls are closing in
Let the carnival... begin!

HEAR THE HYMN! (Stop!) TO MADNESS!
Rip the seams of your own consciousness!
HEAR THE HYMN! (Stop!) TO MADNESS!
There's no cure for this glorious sickness!
(Backing vocals: "Hymn! Hymn! Hymn!")
Raise your voice 'til your reason dies!
With a scream that shatters the skies!
It’s the only truth we possess...
This sacred... HYMN... TO MADNESS!

Logic is a noose...
Sanity's a lie...
Welcome to the circus...
Where the freaks are dignified...

HEAR THE HYMN! TO MADNESS!
Rip the seams of your own consciousness!
HEAR THE HYMN! TO MADNESS!
No cure for this glorious sickness!
(Backing vocals: "Hymn! Hymn! Hymn!")
Raise your voice 'til your reason dies!
With a scream that shatters the skies!
It’s the only truth we possess...
This sacred... HYMN... TO MADNESS!

Hymn... to madness...
Hymn... to madness...
Ha... ha... ha...