Mana God Lyrics
And they're taking you first
Pick your weapons, armaments
And take aim at the world
No one's fucking innocent now
Innocent now
Mana god
And it's an empty, vacuous life
We fear what they tell us to fear
It's such a tyranny, enemies lie
We'll die how they want us to die
Unless you fight back, yeah this is a war
Fight for your life, an eye for an eye
Or lay down in reckless indifference
They want fucking prisoners
And yet no one's innocent
We live how they want us to live
And it's an empty, vacuous life
We fear what they tell us to fear
It's such a tyranny, enemies lie
We'll die how they want us to die
Unless you fight back, yeah this is a war
Metamorphosise, and I'd give my life
And pray to the one true mana god
Yet we've all played pawns in the
Genocides
And we're numb to it
Anaesthetised
The voice of mana gives and takes all life
Blood seeps beneath the tainted grove
We tread under the arbour
Our weight upon a bed of bones
Pray to the mana god
Pray to the mana god
Pray to the mana god
We breathe it in until we choke
We breed into disorder
A plague of which we've lost control
And it's an empty, vacuous life
We fear what they tell us to fear
It's such a tyranny, everything's false
We'll die how they want us to die
Unless you fight back, yeah this is a war
Metamorphosise, and I give my life
And pray to the one true mana god
Make Them Suffer frontman Sean Harmanis commented: ‘Mana God‘ is a song about control. The control that the media can have over our thoughts and views. The control that religious organisations can have over people’s lives. The level of control that governments are able to enforce and most importantly the control that we are often held under by our own technological devices and their algorithms.
Most people today would know at least one or many who have been driven to the brink of madness by the echo chamber of their phone or computer. I notice many of these people being shunned, ostracised from their communities and held prisoner by their own confirmation bias, force-fed to them through their phones. I don’t see the people as the issue, rather the devices, for the breakdown of human connection.
‘Mana God,’ to me, is a call to action, to break away from the current systems of control and return to a space where communication and human connection are nurtured and encouraged.