A Wraith in the Apparatus

Little boy cries wolf for he cannot see
 The emperor's new clothes syndrome
 This diabolical transparency
 Transitional seasonal change
 Come palpate the shame
 Another reign, another dogma
 Another shibboleth passes away
 Harmless or nefarious
 A gilded new church
 False god to worship
 Blind acceptance with no repentance
 A jaded new church
 A false deity to service
 God save the king
 Send out succour
 There's a wraith in the apparatus
 Long live the king
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 Genuflect before this mammon
 A false idol to revere
 A corrupt church of the blind
 Cathedral of idiocrasy
 A malfunctioning mechanism
 A new hymn of praise to sing
 But I serve only the true monarch
 God save the king
 A bewitching ritual to seduce you all
 Apocryphal church, a false god to worship
 Fallaceous disingenuous
 Lords of the illusional new church
 Pre-fabricated pope to service
 God save the king
 Send out succour
 There's a wraith in the apparatus
 Long live the king
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 Repent
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 Necessity is the smotherer of all invention
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 God save the king
 Send out succour
 There's a wraith in the apparatus
 Long live the king
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 For God save