Millenium of the Blind
Hidden Treasures
1995
Duration: 2:15
Track number: 8
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**
