Technopagans

By Jesse Welles

On Masks Off

Released on November 2, 2025

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[Verse 1]

I watched technopagans baptized by the reptile in the sun

In that California valley of Our Lady Silicon

Antichrists were bargain-priced and the sky was oh so clear

Always sunny, always funny, and the end was always near


[Verse 2]

Yeah, I wander that antique store of our culture time to time

The recession of ambition zapped me right between the eyes

Activistic figurines effortlessly moral wept

While new hatesmiths forged the swords that cut themselves across the neck


[Chorus]

I don't love it, I don't hate it

I don't even know what's real

Yeah, the more I understand

The more misunderstood I feel

I don't fight now, I'm alright now

It may be I never learn

They say you rise up from the ashes

Why'd you ever have to burn?


[Verse 3]

With a lizard's disposition and a lab coat for a dress

Lord, they synthesized the genuine, we all were wedding guests

Hairless wolves warned desperate sheep, Revelation's rapture's high

The benevolence of predators will always blow my mind


[Chorus]

I don't love it, I don't hate it

I don't even know what's real

Yeah, the more I understand

The more misunderstood I feel

I don't fight now, I'm alright now

It may be I never learn

They say you rise up from the ashes

Why'd you ever have to burn?


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 4]

A hundred smoking deputies tore off in search of jewels

Where's the manhunt for our reason? The future rests in hands of fools

When that kismet asteroid hits, bury me down in the crater

You can scream at the abyss, the abyss returns the favor


[Chorus]

I don't love it, I don't hate it

I don't even know what's real

Yeah, the more I understand

The more misunderstood I feel

I don't fight now, I'm alright now

It may be I never learn

They say you rise up from the ashes

Why'd you ever have to burn?