"Misanthropy Pure" lyrics - NEW FOUND GLORY

Understood
This will read as a plan to vindicate intolerance as surely as it is written
Understand
Contempt born of clear perception is a birthright to those who channel it toward progression
Preserve life through loathing
Awaken hope with hatred
Wrest insight from outrage
This is a birthright and obligation
Spiteful and ill-tempered
I know the character well
A maelstrom of weakness and instability
Seething with viciousness
I choose not to accept this
Not into my life
There is no hope of reform
When pride is allied with hostility
All reason is denied
I return the denial

A glaring misconception of self-importance
I know the character well
Heedless fool, so arrogant with no understanding of consequence
I see this negligence
I choose not to accept it
Not into my life
Absence of introspection
Neglects the outer world
Let not the excess of lust and comfort mislead you
This world is not yours

[Chorus:]
To distort the truth to serve itself
To oppose understanding
I believe in man
Man will maintain its hostility
Have this faith

Feel the quarrel in just his presense
You know the character all too well
A destructive man at war with his cowardice
I detest belligerence, and I choose not to accept this
Not into my life
I keep separate these hatreds
Undefined animosity is a device of the spineless
The means of a fool
Focused misanthropy
Is opposition to these dark hearts
Downpours of disapproval no words could begin to express
Words could not express our disappointment

[Chorus:]
To distort the truth to serve itself
To oppose understanding
I believe in man
Man will maintain its hostility
Have this faith

[Chorus:]
To distort the truth to serve itself
To oppose understanding
I believe in man
Man will maintain its hostility
Have this faith
Have this faith
Conflict in the chest
To be concerned for the needs of such heartless men

[Outro:]
Life through loathing
Hope within hatred
Insight from outrage
Life through loathing
Hope with hatred
Insight from outrage
Life through loathing
Hope within hatred
Wrest insight from outrage
This is a birthright and obligation