Millenium of the Blind
Hidden Treasures
1995
Duration: 2:15
Track number: 8
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza
Theme
This track, originally a Japanese bonus track on the *Youthanasia* album (1994), offers a chilling vision of a **dystopian future** or a world in the grips of mass deception, where people willingly surrender their sight (and insight) to corrupt leaders. It's a critique of **blind faith and political/religious corruption**.
Lyrics
Line up all of you and turn in your eyes
You just won't need them anymore
And your mind is ours to do with what we please
Everything you own and everything you need
Sacrifice you leaders: like it or not
Or else you're going down with ship; death on the rocks
Blind follow; blind lead
All our hopes and dreams, washed out to sea
All your money's ours to bankroll corrupt wars
You can't see what you're fighting for
Trust your leaders as they send you out to die
The true face of evil can't be seen without eyes
At the start of time; many centuries ago
Came the spawning of christ and the antichrist
And darkness fell upon our people
And the children, they were born faceless
Without eyes they could not see
Born unto themselves: they lived and they died
In the millennium of the blind
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