Empty idealism

Appears on:

Sonic degeneracy - Vol. II: Psychotic crescendo

(Full-length, 2024)

Fragments of degeneracy

(Split/Compilation, 2024)

Written in autumn 2015, rewritten in november 2016.

Trivia

A furious attack against so many artists out there (especially musicians), who seem to live in a world that's totally incompatible with reality. The more superficial and detached from reality they are, the more they feel "awakened" and "profound". It's OK to hold some grudges against the status quo, but not to the point of imagining vague, undefined utopias that are inapplicable in the real world. This actually makes more damage than good, in the long run.

Musically, I let myself loose on this one with the most primitive, nihilistic 80's underground metal imaginable - Brazil, Germany and all the rawest, noisiest stuff that circulated back then via tape-trading.

Lyrics

Deep, profound words

Which mean nothing at all

Isolated in your world

Made of abstract moral values

Resentment for the world

You live in, so frustrated

Utopian, visionary

With a vision that means nothing

You are the sensitive pseudo-intellectual

You are the socially conscious artist

You have no clue about cause and effect

You wanna attack the system without a plan

Stop poetizing, stop idealizing

Learn the meaning of "pragmatism"

Be an infiltrate, be a trojan horse

Screw your empty idealism

Abstract concepts, abstract principles

Your weak antidote to reality

Your mottos, devoid of meaning

But so pleasing and motivating

Your values are decaying

And you mourn them all in vain (ha ha ha!)

Utility and need rule this world

If you ignore this you can't change anything

You are the one who would make a revolution

But doesn't know people's real needs

Your attempt to change the world is laughable

You don't know how things really work

Stop poetizing, stop idealizing

Learn the meaning of "pragmatism"

Be an infiltrate, be a trojan horse

Screw your empty idealism

Incapable of deep thought

Or analysis, eternal child

Superstitious, so ingenuous

Your worldview is sugar-coated

You're a dreamer, just admit

That you hate the real world

Misinformed, superficial

And you call yourself "profound"

Do you think people are all altruistic

And don't act for their own interest?

If you wanna propose an alternative

You must promise something for them in return

Stop poetizing, stop idealizing

Learn the meaning of "pragmatism"

Be an infiltrate, be a trojan horse

Screw your empty idealism

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