Ashes of ancients The nations repainted The chain gang chatelaine Changing the station The theme song playing The anthem of normal The horrible fanfare The horns get distorted On a public annoucement The towns are impounded Where the order resounded Cowards towered around it Powerline buzzards Surveilling the night Talons in flight The fake horizons ignite
Banality lives Where hysteria kills Civilian jungles With malaria pills Animals bleed To buy a star from the night Avenue kids Wear a scar like a stripe Send up a signal To the heavenly rescue When the poison's coming From the person you're next to Let the voltage of thought Pull the plug from the wound 'Cause if the soul is a sympton The condition is you
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Landslide
We know it's a letter bomb hand-me-down This thought is a perjury blindfold When she crawls from the Himalayan rain Where the birds of prey and weapons on fire She's ridin' a landslide down to me Cuttin' the shackles off of me Shakin' the dead birds from the trees She's takin' the only air I breathe
Iron lungs and a plate glass sermon Don't call it death on the installment plan She's pulling the armour on my back Waving the coals over the tracks Taking the knife out from the stack She's bringing the blood that I have back
She's coming to see it's all a sin Coming to see the sun again Coming to wash it off again Coming to see herself again Coming to see herself again Coming to wash it off again