Live wire dead birds

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Taste the blood, strain the wine
But don’t you dare step out of line
There’s rules to follow, for your own good
Although they can’t say why
Any of us really should
Eat up every lie

Their cities fell to angry mobs long and long ago
They rose up from the underground and managed quite a show
Bare hands in their multitudes on silver spooned men grab
They tore their buildings to the ground
And put it on their tab
They ransacked all the governments and drove them to the sea
They burned the oil, toppled the tower, took the power
And that’s just fine by me
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What’s a person anyways?
Can we exist outside of a moment, a breath, a minute
Are we composites of all our experience
Or just momentary snapshots in time?
Reacting, acting, being, seeing, learning, feeling
It sends the mind reeling
Am I any more than a twitching mass of reactions?
Couldn’t say, I’m too impulsive to decide apparently
Sorry to hear about the cat, it was a fine feline
Do we exist outside of now, or then, or anywhere really?
Who could say, has anyone been to these places, seen outside perception
Been without being?
It wasn’t me I can say that much, but one day maybe I will touch
The divine or just their swine
Either way I wouldn’t even believe it
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Know your role
Stay in line
Don’t take parole
From acid shine

Believe in change
But don’t dare press
I could arrange
The hit for less

If you’ll just step this way sir
I’ll give you one just cause
To make the job very sure
But please hold the applause

Commit yourself right to the task
And hold it to the forge
Beat away its falsehood mask
And on the question gorge

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What does it mean
If they call it obscene
Or callous
Or raucous
Or daft
They’re only words
Live wire dead birds
And they mean very little to me
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