“Lethargica” speaks about natural selection and its impeccable way to act, with dark and relentless description. It has got more creative as the years has gone by (to the point of leading to human beings); indifferent (lethargic) towards its victims and their suffering, it slowly but surely takes th...
[Verse 1]
The void clenches its determined jaws
A lethargic, careless motion to kill
Monstrous, prodigious, indifferent
Slow and deliberate its torturous skills
[Verse 2]
Its molars grind and shatter
Onerous, leaden bringers of hurt
Unhurried in its deadly intent
The undoer of all, dense and inert
[Bridge]
Its design perfected through aeons
Pure, immaculate, clean, omnicidal god/machine
[Verse 3]
Calm, precise ambition
Untroubled by the roar of unending screams
The droning blare of absolute doom
The downpitched moan of collapsing dreams
[Verse 4]
Composed, cold, unconditional
Uncompromising 'til all is death
Extinction, ruin, its malicious cause
'Til the last exhalation of human breath
Lethargica was written by Tomas Haake.
Lethargica was produced by Meshuggah.
Meshuggah released Lethargica on Fri Mar 07 2008.