What is eternal growth if not a fantasy?
A pyramidic version of the global economy
Built on empty promises without gold standards
Promising luxury and welfare to every mind that meanders
At first, it all falls apart like inflation
Wild panic, dreadful screams and jet-black depression
Then comes the hunger, blood curdling and raw
After the hunger comes a relentless abolition of law
Unarmed, lost and scared
You make your own deathbed
Murderous militias who roam from place to place
They'll take your life for nothing, so learn how to quicken your pace
The government's responsibility is only there in case
Its members need to hurriedly disappear without a trace
Being on your own is an idea that's never been brought to light
So build yourself a fortress and teach your family how to fight
The big city life becomes the Kafkaesque life
You can't eat concrete, so avoid the cannibal's knife
Farewell, Civilization
See a new kind of nation
From three days of sleeplessness
Emerges a new reality's genesis
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
There's no way out, there's no visible light
See the ice-cold sky surrounding burnt-out houses on a dark night
See now Scandinavia
Without the electricity in your apartment, the northern winter rages
The IKEA tables burn fast when you can't burn firewood or pages
The wastewater is flooding, the illness is laying dormant
And the Swede has become antibiotically resistant
A high price to pay for a shimmering façade
For participation in a clumsy, redundant and demented march
Witness reality or go down with the ship
Like eyeless rats in sewers filled with shit
Nothing in our glass, nothing on our plate
We're in a worse-than-desperate state
Long marches, bad weather
We're wearing fashionably freezing leather
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
There's no way out, there's no visible light
See the ice-cold sky surrounding burnt-out houses on a dark night
See now Scandinavia
Now fetch your expensive porcelain
And make a toast with glasses full of piss-warm urine
Nothing in our glass, nothing on our plate
We're in a worse-than-desperate state
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
Darkness over Scandinavia - Now it's all coming to an end [x2]
There's no way out, there's no visible light
See the ice-cold sky surrounding burnt-out houses on a dark night
See now Scandinavia
Thirst and sleeplessness
Insects, fences
A new reality
Praeparatus supervivet1
1. "Praeparatus supervivet" is Latin for "The prepared one survives" and is the motto of the Swedish Armed Forces' Survival School (FÖS).