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The Melodizing
Hearsay talks, copious praise
Rise to chart, harmonious days
Beneath the pressure, jagged in youth
Speaking in leisure, provided on queue
Travel united, caravan stocks
Spoken to frighten, those on the cross
Gathering iron, engines to build
Feeling so tired, stomachs to fill
Stringing a country, notes in their eyes
Deny them a boundary, clout and blue skies
They feel a bit curious, wandering minds
They feel a bit anxious, wasting their time
Sights be awoken, opening dread
Tactless and broken, widening heads
Citizens lifted, leaving their rooms
Nominate gifted, speak of their doom
Consider our phases, envy and all
Debate on our pages, bring down your walls
Sing us indignant, love all the flak
Grant us the image, claw at our backs
Show us your skin, feed yourself blame
Digest us again, confuse and feel shame
Decided and raw, unaltered by fame
To leave you in awe, we leave you our name ---
The enamored, the kind
The furious, the swine
The trendy, the new
The collective, the few
The everyone that's everyone
Who feel so inclined
All know our melodies
And know them just fine
They hum them in outrage
Or shout them in line
They know where the change is
And follow it blind
The fattened and gaunt
The loose and the fraught
Under our influence
Will be all for not
We'll get them to dance
Enliven their feet
Then they'll start marching
And torch up the streets
Then they'll start marching
And torch up the streets
Then they'll start marching
And torch up the streets,
A comet won't strike
Or end all there is
We'll be the bringers
Of the wasting of this
We shall be playing
To turn you to beasts
Who will do all we're saying
At the time of the feast
Marching on homeward
Inflicting en route
Painting your homesteads
We are now you
You are not puppets
But you are now true
And we will unleash you
By lust for the moon
Feed on the panic
By those who are crude
Fancy the primal
And try to pursue
Be our arrivals
Be for us too
Be rid of the refuse
Be gone from us soon ---
All things set afire or blown
Leaves us here with all that we know
With clarity intact we stand all alone
Arms in hand with nowhere to go
So on the shred of the world we'll play a bit here
A bit of the simple to loosen our ears
And happiness finds us among all the tears
The timing stays steady and tones become clear
We're something like monsters or demons of old
Indulging in lightning that comes from our throats
Ending the lifetimes of bleak and the bold
Tuning and twisting between our bare bones
Band of enlightened and blissful intent
Disrupting the Earth by coming and went
It all deserved better by their fair judgment
As the blackness of space replaces cement.
