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Unspilled Blood
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If we could strangle out the color from this place
We'd paint a pallor over cobble and pastel
We would hobble all the knees of all the dancers
And poison all the wells
We will clear-cut all the trees and scrape the dirt beneath your feet
We will box it up and sell it back to you
We will strip mine all the mountainsides
Leave fallow soil where all of your crops grew
And we'll dine upon the plunder
Our fattened faces full and flush with unspilled blood
And don't you pout, don't you cry
Lest the bombers blot the sky
And turn towns to ashes one by one (right)
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On the odd hour, I retreat into a daydream reverie
Of abandoned tanks and crumbled treasuries
Exquisite nascent fantasies
What hell upon the Earth we wrought to get to this?
Fed back into our mouths by seven billion fists
Once proud industrialists float face down in the sea
Held under by the arc of history
Our grand design is turning on the spit
On coals, we stirred and lit
Our card-walled dynasty
Enough to light the penitentiary
Our legacy of cruelty and war in pious cruciform
Never to return
So I think I'll stick around to watch it burn
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