Rapture Rising (Reimagined)

Beyond the ocean

A lighthouse is waiting for me

The Great Chain in motion

Beneath the waves of the sea

Into the city

All good things flow

The sweat on your brow

Is what you reap and sow

Forge your own fortune

From salt and from sand

No gods or kings

Only man

Folks told me, son, you won the gene pool

So I guess I had a head start on these fools

Doesn't take a Winter Blast for Jack to keep cool

But isolation in the deep blue can be cruel

I descended the depths fathom by fathom

As if the ocean opened up and I've been cast in a chasm

Upon a sweeping seascape where genetic accidents happen

But don't blame EVE, the cause of the fall had to be ADAM

If you believe the sweat of your brow oughtta be yours

Listen to Andrew Ryan, the philosophical entrepreneur

He might've put me on blast, but I'll get past his thugs

I asked who Fontaine was, and Atlas Shrugged

Welcome to Rapture, where we sell, manufacture

Evolution: natural selection's happening faster

Were you shocked when I said I was nothing less than electric?

This city's dead but I bet that I can resurrect it

Like a Lazarus Vector, giving breath to the breathless

I will never let a single engine rest in Hephaestus

Yeah, I'm getting more dependent on medkits

My doctor's got sick demented obsessions

For promising pretty, you could lesson perfection

Remember, ugliness is an aggressive infection

Forget the Hippocratic Oath, that has been neglected

No wonder this operation has become so gut-wrenchin'

I better collect every weapon and any effective invention

To make 'em vanish like Houdini

Pumpin' lead in these Leadheads

I call it artwork, want it censored? Forget it

I got a killer's disposition, guess it's genetic

If death is a choice, then I reject it!

Rise, Rapture, rise

We turn our hopes up to the skies

Rise, Rapture, rise

We'll go down with our sinking paradise

RISE

Roll up my sleeves, so blood will not get on 'em

These shackles remind me I started from the bottom

I was just a little fish who hadn't had his cherry popped

Now I'm a grown man, damnit, I ain't scared of shots

Shots shots shots shots now my veins are on fire

Rearrangin' DNA? Sounds like playing with fire

When sciences are practiced with a lack of moral guidance

Splicers seek to satisfy their sick sadistic vices

Victims become villains, angry vandals turn to violence

Sickly children sticking by their less than gentle giants

Minds manipulated by the parasite inside 'em

But if you're a parasite in Ryan's eyes, you're put to silence

The great and strong will not yield to the weak and feeble

You'll need cerebral upgrades to see me as your equal

Harvest ADAM, feed on EVE, it doesn't make me evil

Because my survival rides on getting Power to the People

Plenty of desperate denizens deal with deprivation

But let's be fair, laissez-faire, forget the regulations

This economy- perfectly working without you

So let me fill my craving at the Circus of Values

Drawn here, like a moth to a flame

Fallin' from grace, swallowed by a watery grave

Now I frolic on the stage, like a part in a play

As if I was nothing but a puppet, just a pawn in the game

Lookin' for something to set me apart from a slave

Rise, Rapture, rise

We turn our hopes up to the skies

Rise, Rapture, rise

We'll go down with our sinking paradise

RISE

Rapture is bleeding through cracks that are leaking

Dwindling memories tell secrets they're keeping

Demons disguised by benign masquerades

Angels climb out of their graves

Mind over matter is the practice I'm preachin'

How else could I achieve feats of telekinesis?

If you're a lousy hack, I'll get past your defense

And if you try to whack me, you'll kick the hornet nest

Get out of my Gatherer's Garden because the harvest is over

You know, when it comes to tonics, I don't wanna be sober

Now I got a slimmer waist

And my chin is chiseled more

Can't you see? Vanity sent the city into civil war

In a utopia, who's gonna wanna scrub the toilets?

The people in Apollo Square got no other choices

I know how this is gonna end, but I don't wanna spoil it

Before I let you seize my city, I'm gonna destroy it!

So just relax, Big Daddy, I command ya

Strike a pose, smile for the camera

I think objectively, just like Ayn Rand does

Attention: will the real Fontaine stand up?

A man chooses, unlike a slave

Who never strays from the path that his master paves

Follows every order and does everything they say

Now Would You Kindly... OBEY?

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OBEY

OBEY

OBEY?

Rise, Rapture, rise

We turn our hopes up to the skies

Rise, Rapture, rise

We'll go down with our sinking paradise

My city is thriving

Your allies- choose them wisely

Our Rapture is rising

Stand with us, Would You Kindly?

RISE