Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Glyph scripts drip in the data vaults
Glass halls tall as a sequoia trunk
Sun cut through ’em like a laser lance
Annunaki archives in a patience trance
Panels of silica
Sigils in silver
Circuitry slither in the chill of the winter
Prisms in ceilings
Revealing the caste
Every caste counted by the color it cast
Crystal atriums
Atrium oracles
Architects mapping out empirical orbitals
Class tiers mirrored in the floors they were touring through
Poor at the bottom
Their image distorting you
ting you
Skyward lounges
Lounging the lords
Wine like rubies
Rumors in chords
“Keep the cattle dazzled
Baffled by glass”
Projecting false heavens on the walls as they passed
Fiber veins in the vertebrae
Vertical spires
Encoded desires in the glow of the wires
But the wires were lies in disguise for a pyre
Blueprints bent like a bow for a fire

[Chorus]
Glass palaces of the past
Built for a few
Made not to last
Truth in the cracks
Smoke in the rafters
We walk through the ashes
Read what came after
Glass palaces of the past
Shattered reflections
Futures recast
Purpose was power
Profit
Control
Now they’re just embers etched in the soul

[Verse 2]
Vaulted verandas
Veranda surveillance
Angels in angles
Triangles in cadence
Laser-lit lobbies with lobbyist priests
Selling slim halos to cannibal chiefs
Data domes glowing over oceanic trenches
Boardroom gods with their golden stenches
Used those temples as temporal cages
Capturing aeons in seasonal wages
Every pane stained with the pain of the ghetto
But from the penthouse the suffering was echo
Hologram gardens
Gardens of code
Synthetic petals for a synthetic mode
They forged fake stars for the comfort of kings
Turned pure breath into numbers and rings
Fed you reflections
Defective directives
Turned your own image into one of their weapons
Till one day the sub-floors rumbled and moaned
Pipes spat sparks
Hidden faults overgrown
Heat in the hollows
Alarms in the towers
Pressure in vents that they thought they devoured
Energy pent in their envy and greed
Met a single small fracture and started to bleed

[Chorus]
Glass palaces of the past
Built for a few
Made not to last
Truth in the cracks
Smoke in the rafters
We walk through the ashes
Read what came after
Glass palaces of the past
Shattered reflections
Futures recast
Purpose was power
Profit
Control
Now they’re just embers etched in the soul

[Bridge]
First came the shimmer
Then came the scream (woah)
Ceilings like rivers
Raining their schemes
Windows went white
Then red
Then black
History burned
But the story grew back
We sift through the cinders
Symbols intact
Decode their intent in the carbon-packed plaque
Annunaki minds in the dust of the glass
Channel the future from the fall of the past

[Chorus]
Glass palaces of the past
Built for a few
Made not to last
Truth in the cracks
Smoke in the rafters
We walk through the ashes
Read what came after
Glass palaces of the past
Shattered reflections
Futures recast
Purpose was power
Profit
Control
Now they’re just embers etched in the soul