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lyrics

Everything is changed
All didst run its course
The present fears nothing more
Than a Trojan Horse
Ye who steak your existence
On borders and walls
The emerging future’s among you!
Its within us all!
Everything is changed
Be still and listen
Can you hear the air quietly
Hissing out somewhere? Blowing in your hair?
Stare at nothing for a second
Don’t even think
The world inflated around us
Is all going limp

Everything is as it ever was
Only more so
Behold all of thy gods
Same as ten years ago
The screen is a Berlin wall
Between us all and the show
yesterday’s entertainment
Is tomorrow’s government, no?
Everything is as it ever was
Only more so
The virtues that held back the weather
Discharged long time ago
And all you terrified zealots
Didst vote yr messiah to the throne
One criminal gang for another
All make their deals with Rome

Everything is strange
Who here moved the piece?
That began the rearrangement
Of all things from west to east
Behold the readjustment
Of all those who said they knew
And all of the listless players
That don’t know what to do
Everything is Strange
And who here knows the rules?
Still hammering the present crisis
With a box of yesterday’s tools?
who still hopes down telescopes
Upon this ship of fools
Who here still looking for the promised land
To drill for fossil fuels?

Everything is under strain
And where now’re thy failing gods?
Trapped in the black mirror?
In flight and dropping bombs?
Behind fences lined with wire
Policed by guards with dogs?
Sat down in the seats of power?
Yes, you go tell that fox
Everything is under strain
Death and worms in the royal box
O ye anxious clouds
I’ll be your lightning rod!
Scapegoat the wanderers
For your decline and fall
What else is crucifixion
But your loss of control?

Everything is in pain
So many tears unshed
There’ll be no reparation
There’ll be no justice, yet
And all that has been taken
That never shall be returned
And all that has been broken
Forever shall bear the wounds
Everything is in pain
Gather ye round the past
For all the noble industries
That never shall be re-sparked
For all the lost identities
since thrown beneath the wheels
For all the ancient slaveries
That shall not be healed

Shed thy tears forever
O let them never end
For how many tears, shall we say
Before thy sorrow is spent?
And when you’ve wept until you
Know there are not tears enough
Then shall ye be ready to
Turn and face the rising sun
Then ye shall be ready to
Turn about from that before
Then shall you end your lust for
victories in this fruitless war
Then shall you end your hope
of saving what you though was yours
Then shall you turn and see a
Future which belongs none, and all

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from We Really Existed And We Really Did This, released May 3, 2019

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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