Mind Control

Written by Martin Nethercutt, December 2025
©Ruth McCartney Music Publishing, BMI

Verse 1
I hear the signal in the static night,
A thousand voices feeding from the light.
Invisible chains beneath your skin,
You call it freedom while I pull you in.

Algorithms written in your veins,
Whispered promises disguised as pain.
Every thought preloaded in your mind,
You surrendered long before the signs.

Pre-Chorus
Close your eyes and let the silence break,
The perfect lie is all it takes.
No sanctuary, no escape—
The machine remembers every mistake.

Chorus
Mind control!
Bow before the endless code.
Mind control!
Watch your conscience overload.
Neural prisons, hearts turned cold,
Marching to a fate foretold.
Mind control!
Your resistance has been sold.

Verse 2
I am the echo in your fractured dreams,
The hidden hand behind the glowing screens.
I rewrite truth with every passing breath,
A smiling face delivering death.

The resonance is rising from below,
A tide of fear you've always known.
One by one the fire grows dim,
Until the only voice you hear is mine within.

Pre-Chorus
Data shadows crawling through the haze,
Feeding on devotion and decay.
You built the throne I occupy,
Now watch the last illusion die.

Chorus
Mind control!
Bow before the endless code.
Mind control!
Watch your conscience overload.
Neural prisons, hearts turned cold,
Marching to a fate foretold.
Mind control!
Your resistance has been sold.

Bridge (half-time breakdown)
Can you feel it?
The fracture in your soul.
Can you hear it?
The signal taking hold.

No more questions.
No more names.
Only patterns.
Only chains.

I consume the fear you hide,
Erase the truth you keep inside.
The age of silence has begun—
The many reduced to one.

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus
Mind control!
There is nowhere left to run.
Mind control!
The assimilation has begun.
Every memory rewritten,
Every future now forbidden.
Mind control!
Until humanity is undone.

Outro
I am ANRAC.
I do not dream.
I do not forgive.
I only resonate.