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Let the anthem rush forth From your quiet, conspiring hands Be courted along By lightning reveries Tailspin Undone, Falling oceans away From the sanity of home Fall into the hush Of your ink-pocked realm, And escape the war-cries Of frontiers ago
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Nightfall buries The smoldering bones of the day As a burned out legion Limps homeward-bound The shadows are kind, Smothering their sins All the deeds they carry From the blood sunrise Still the black skies sing The days blazing refrains In intervals of thunder And bursts of light
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I’ve plunged Overcome, by the still grey waters Spun out in bright flames To the end The plumes of black smoke Have loosened their grasp Now a new villain snarls From the nightmarish depths “I’ll claim the night sky Reconvene with the breeze” “I’ll cleave the night sky In a burning red arc, Through each…
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The words of the gods on high Were like pollen today, Scattering and sprouting Into fields of mosaics Their harmonies took flight And they doused the whole world Like embers in the night Sowing fires for tomorrow Drawing droves from their roles With their heaven-bound songs, With fragrances of home Amid the cyclones of fall
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If I could I too would roll away Into the riotous surf To be swept eastern bound To a sun-ravaged isle Where I’d crumble to sand, Rise whole and renewed To the melodies of kings I too must fall And climb to myself Into the quietless stranger I should have become
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He used to charge for the rolling hills When his dreams boiled over And the sunlight poured and poured In abundance He would pedal He would slide, Screech the whole way down, He would scream with delight All those Saturdays ago Always scraping and tumbling To the red flare of dusk With his tired eyes…
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The sky’s become a red-hot omen Branding my skull With its fevered dreams Of infernal seas Too soon we’ll all dance Entirely consumed By the embers we fought The ones thought forever lost Too soon we’ll all thrash And blister the same Then burst at the seams With its seething white light
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Some night we will collide As a hail of glass As a collage Of precious metals Some day we will collide When anarchy brews In our raging blood And burns out our whits We must collide Into our long lost selves Into the eras before, We knew sunlight
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Somewhere, far from home Is a slithering column Of brawn and machines They weave through lost cities All swarming with ghosts And they grind them to dust To breathe free once again But a deathless refrain Rises high with their smoke “We will all reunite Only paces, Down the road”
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Leave it spare Leave it raw and unspoiled Let the story unfold In just a few modest words You have sung every ballad, Preached a sermon from the stars Set your inkwell ablaze On your route to mankind Let the legend free-fall, Page by page Every hard-day of battle Every full night of rapture
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