The Axis Songtext
von Irradiant

We seek power
Entirely for its own sake
We are not interested in the good of others
We are interested solely in power
Pure power
What pure power means
You will understand presently


We are different from the oligarchies of the past
In that we know what we are doing
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves
Pretended, perhaps they even believed
That they had seized power unwillingly
And for a limited time
And that just around the corner there lay a paradise
Where human beings would be free and equal

We are not like that

We know what no one ever seizes power
With the intention of relinquishing it
Power is not a means
It is an end

One does not establish a dictatorship
In order to safeguard a revolution
One makes the revolution
In order to establish the dictatorship

The object of persecution is persecution
The object of torture is torture
The object of power is power

Now, you begin to understand me