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Happily we Floated Down the River and Over the Waterfalls that Followed

God **** God ****

Is there anybody left to recover the grandeur

The anger! The pain!

the lame and dull, the men are the same

The bright thrashing bull

For once I had a dream that there was something in my room

Which impregnated my mind with ferocious alien fauna

That slowly ate the inside of my skull and gave birth to live young

Which then went out and took over the minds of a whole generation

Of acid freaks, hipsters, and all manner of deluded youth

And bore in them more screaming demon like entities

That burn in great lakes and flowering fields

And crack the concrete with lava flow

with electric ecstasy

Rationale sold separately

 

The moderators saw the end was coming quickly in the gold rush that followed

And the cybernetic wave crashed on them without warning

And double barreled shotguns blasted through the eye sockets

Poking wires through the holes

That god forgot to fill

As we explored and we explored until all the rocks were overturned

And all we had for all our trouble was the fatal irony of life

Now without a purpose we’ve lost the will to fight

all the animals and beasts that come out in the night

For we stand on the pinnacle without glory, without right

 

In our leisure we become the social experiment

The ticking time bomb to calamity

On the brink of the purest clarity

The painted picture nigh complete

And as we stand on top our kingdom come the crowded throng below

With our hands out stretched as far as we will allow ourselves to go

For if there ever was a thing that history could teach

Is that it will be funny when we find the rotted peach

 

For as I sat in my room on that fateful night

you were standing there before me

And your narrow frame cast a shadow upon me

But I still loved you any way

As the wind blew the blinds back and they smacked against the frame

And I thought I grasped the essence before I forgot completely about it

And I slipped back blissfully into indifference

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