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Monument (I. Hostages, II. The Full Six Under)

from The View From Olympus by Great Wide Nothing

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I see trees of green. Red roses, too.
One day we’ll burn them down to get a better view
Of the searing city lights, to silence voices in the night,
Maybe find a face on which to place our fear so we can fight.

It’s just not right. And I won’t sleep tonight.

I see factory flames and graveyard gates.
We seem to hear the ones who warn us fifty fucking years too late.
The drums of war pound out again. We’ll turn a blind eye to the sins
That break the brand new hearts that Heaven holds against the vanity of men.

Will you think of them when your saints go marching in?

God help us all, we’re hostages.
We clutch the gun and cast the blame.
We’ll drive ourselves the full six under,
But I don’t think they’ll know our names.
And if there’s still a way for anything
To live here when we’re through,
I hope they build a shining monument,
And engrave it, “don’t let it be you.”

I see waves of blue and clouds of white.
The putrid fumes of burning bone will turn the daytime into night.
Another place, another time, we still watch Babel’s spire climb
To conquer without conscience, and leave the young to suffer for her crimes.

God help us all, we’re hostages.
We clutch the gun and cast the blame.
We’ll drive ourselves the full six under,
But I don’t think they’ll know our names.
And if there’s still a way for anything
To live here when we’re through,
I hope they build a shining monument,
And engrave it, “don’t let it be you.”

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from The View From Olympus, released April 5, 2019

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