Love how they burn your synagogues
Love how they torch your holy books
Filling coffers with your grief
Filling coffins with your misery
Faith holding outright criminals safe
This is just the world we live in
Can you justify the pain?
The death of fiction will save us all

Hysteria
(We live)
I won't give up
(We die)
In a world worth saving goodbye
(I don't have anything to fear)
I live, I live hysteria

Wait supporting outright genocide
Hate, let us all disseminate
A message to your herd
Our voices will be heard

Now faith is a question you can choose
Faith whether Christian, Muslim, Jew
Still you all distort the truth
The death of fiction will save us all

Hysteria
(We live)
I won't give up
(We die)
In a world worth saving goodbye
(I don't have anything to fear)
I live, I live hysteria

Hysteria
(We live)
I won't give up
(We die)
In a world worth saving goodbye
(I don't have anything to fear)
I live, I live hysteria

Searching for the answers
Are you asking all the questions?
Will the evidence suffice your fear?
Human evolution is the only real solution
And the truth you gotta hear
Will you stand and fight?

Hysteria
(We live)
I won't give up
(We die)
In a world worth saving goodbye
(I don't have anything to fear)
I live, I live hysteria

Hysteria
(We live)
I won't give up
(We die)
In a world worth saving goodbye
(I don't have anything to fear)
I don't wanna live,
I don't wanna live,
I don't wanna live,
Hysteria, oh hysteria


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    For me, this is a song about living without religion. Aiden and wiL's other bands are no strangers to criticism of religion, and it's pretty clear to me that this song is saying that regardless of your faith, religion distorts the truth and that the death of fiction (religion) is what will help create a rational society.

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