From the album Passion/Bliss - EP
This is a protest song that knows protest won't work. The narrator screams 'kill your thoughts' both to warn against mindless compliance and to acknowledge that thinking itself is unbearable. The song offers no third option between blind comfort and conscious suffering, which might be the most honest thing about it.
Clad in a veil of self-deception / Sleepers rise to start their fall
Rising and falling happen at the same time. The moment you wake up is already the beginning of collapse, which means consciousness itself is the problem, not just what people do with it.
Passengers chained to the backs of their seats / Staring and watching, without ever seeing
The passengers are restrained but also spectators, which means they're complicit in their own captivity. The song never clarifies who chained them or whether breaking free is even possible.
A paranoid mass in search for a master
This line does what the whole song does: diagnoses everyone else's blind obedience while positioning itself as the voice that sees clearly. The narrator might be performing the same master-seeking behavior they're calling out.
Kill your thoughts to free your mind / Life is easier when you're blind
It's unclear if this is satire or genuine advice. The imperative sounds like something the system would say and something a nihilist would say, which makes the narrator either complicit or intentionally ambiguous about their own position.
Bare of light, they try to find / Into the hole, into the hole
The only action available is searching in total darkness. The song offers no vocabulary for awakening, only for descending further, which means it's trapped in the same hopelessness it's describing.
The most radical thing here is that the narrator doesn't pretend to have an answer. They're stuck in the same trap they're describing, watching people search for masters while demanding you kill your thoughts. It's nihilism that knows it's nihilism and keeps going anyway.