Empires need an iron fist
Machinery needs an outcast
Watch pre-programed tyrants shift
Through puppets rulers they outlast
Pawns kill the king; replicas constructed
Thorns grow from everything emotions corrupted
Creators cast clay over-wires
Hand crafted to eclipse messiahs
Keep guard until the next martyr
Awakens from chemical slumber
Archaic cyberspace triggers revolution
Clarke's third law applies to illusions
Applying mass sedation with manufactured archaeology
Simultaneous technocrat and phobic ideology
March into Armageddon with painted on smiles
March out of recollection with makeshift denial

Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron shan't let insurrection thrive
Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron Juda shall despise

Hollow men of iron conquer without intention
Pre-programmed predetermination renders repentance
This perfect war pre-conditioned in seconds
Interlude to perfect peasants
Who'l burn advancement from despotic present
To keep binary skies immersive
Militarism shall always be their worship
Shepard thy commoners beneath thy surface
Until only the aristocrat emerges
Leave planets barren
Until humans crawl from caverns
Flash utopia on the screen
Till they subvert their own regime
Flash utopia on the screen
Till they subvert their own regime
Hollow men of iron embrace conquest as serene
Even as their disassembled by their seams

Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron shan't let insurrection thrive
Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron Juda shall despise

Overlords pass through godlike description
Historians can't stop repetition
In Holocausts waged over nostalgia
Omega ends with sky-ships leaving for new alpha
Hollow men of iron buried in their kinds ruins
Hollow men of iron rewritten as delusions
Wars waged on repeat
Mechanical corpses line holy streets
Remainders retreat to narcotics
Looking at slavers corpses survive plagues bubonic
Hollow men of iron burnt out the sun
Hollow men of iron burn out each loaded gun
Hollow men of iron's pilgrimage goes on
Hollow men of iron and destruction become one

Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron Juda shall despise
Hollow men of iron gradually divide
Hollow men of iron bare soulless eyes
Hollow men of iron commit genocide
Hollow men of iron Juda shall despise