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Tuning
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Tuned in, my goddess looked radiant as moon skin Praising what I plucked from the ocean like a bluefin Great lakes of saline solution That form from her tears shed in this age of fear and confusion Are teeming with life, how to shepherd something new in And salvage what we can from the wreckage and the ruins The systems you believe in are the same inst**utions That train goons with nightsticks to cave your roof in Moving on, cross the Rubicon Lost in the details and minutia of the plot as we troop along Removing flies from my bat soup using tongs Scrutinizing every drop, trying not to lose my calm Where we headed next? Is it safe yet? Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex? There's fingers pointing every which way A wilderness of mirrors in the Devil's ribcage You misbehavin' kids better do as you're told Listen to your Uncle Sam scold, putrid and old The very same that threw Frank Olson through a window That COINTELPRO'd movements and uprooted their goals And counted up his silver coins like Judas of old I wasn't with the King of Kings, I was superimposed Said it twice more, waiting for the rooster to crow Bowed my head in shame, felt like I was losing control Met some grifters on the journey and some beautiful souls And some mixtures of the two, that's the rules of the road, so Where we headed next? Is it safe yet? Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex? Let's play something really weird and wonderful Now, where did the story begin? First came the birth pangs Followed by the myriad lifeforms the Earth sustains And the birds sang as clay made from the dirt and rain Became a network of nerves and veins That gained self-awareness and learned the names Of the beasts and fish, all was bliss 'Til we mainlined venom from the serpents' fangs And learned to throw rocks and ball our fists Then the whole world calcified Taught how to pry metal from the mountainside And forge weapons to defend falsehood with every ounce of pride I walk city blocks watched by a thousand eyes Look at all the vampire bats That jeer and laugh, perched high on the pyramid cap They prayed on our fear in the year of the rat And treated half-truth as empirical fact I place no faith in this Or any system that grinds men's bones into grist In between the gears and cogs and the iron-clad jaws Of leviathans that roam the abyss Any time the words fail, the music speaks So you can let loose and move your feet Then the world's a cathedral to seek and find You don't need the mediation of a Judas priest Who's in charge? The wings are detached from the fuselage The "now" is a product of the tech goliaths and the war machine But I can see another world through the bars And the future's ours First came a flower that emerged and opened when the word was spoken I climbed from a foxhole, hurt and broken And sorrow transformed into pure devotion
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