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1 - brother sing, sister shout (we are all migrants)
dead windows
sing a song of
age, and bitter
blood
disunion tastes like
poison on our
lips
watching shadows
climb the concrete
spires
as a caustic rain
grinds them
to the ground
sister shout!
let your hammer
fall in rhythm like
the beating of a heart
we're standing still
in war torn cells
and fallout shelters
we call home
in some
"state of nature"
fantasy
they name eternal
like a shotgun
aimed into the heavens
brother sing
that I might hear
your voice
let a million flaming colours
light the dark
sister shout!
let your hammer
fall in rhythm like
the beating of a heart
let's howl like
lonely wolves
until the air
alights in song
(we are all migrants)
like a shotgun
aimed into the heavens
brother sing
that I might hear
your voice
let a million flaming colours
light the dark
our skins painted
with ash
like some kind
of urban
camouflage
you and i
appear as one
as one
brother,
how shall we stand?
2 - your skin, celestial
wet moonlight
shining
on your lips
a silver torch
across the night
like a bed of
human wings
with kisses
in the grip of fire
sweetest sweat
milk and honey
in this
new caanan
dazzled with
the falling stars
that soak your
skin
celestial
sing to me in whispers
beyond the barriers
of dream
heavens earthbound
unveil
between your
open limbs, limitless
and free
within these
temple walls
mysteries
revealed
your infinite heart
infinite heat
within your hair,
bewteen your breasts
and feet
pulses racing
towards the edge of
realities
within these walls
all truths revealed
your infinite heart
infinite heat
endless
bewteen your breasts
and feet
will you sing
to me
in whispers?
in the borderlands
of lovers'
wildest dreams
to the front line
to the surface
of an eternal sun
I will never fear
while you stand
with me
3 - against the gods
wake up and burn
the sun it shines
with new
intensity
emerge in alleys
incandescent
with violent
fascination
crash in from
the future
to sunder doors
like
gateways to another world
opened with
a savage kiss
ruins, ruins,
we live in towers
crumbling under
their own weight
let us gather, silent
in their shadow
(to make them ours)
support conspiracies
against the gods
of sleep and
separation
let's trip the
street light haze
fantastic
as if smog
were dry ice vapour
in deep and
empty
spaces
we collide
a thousand sparks
alive within
ready to live
willing to die
ready to live
let's trip the
street light haze
fantastic
as if smog
were dry ice vapour
with heated breath
in hidden hours
we're shining,
feral
in the glow
of action's
blaze
support conspiracies
against the dictatorship
of the commodity
sing subversion
like a storm of
lips, naked
against the
night
4 - behind plastic eyes
echoes
crash against
the walls
sweeping in
slow motion
across
these fractured spaces
a salty cascade
it pours over the levee
in momentary lapses
of unreason
we run on
deprivation
images pass
before our sunken eyes
rapid and automatic
we descend
we descend
a vague
and ghost-like
sense of
loss
lingers,
and then
it fades
numb, beyond haunting
no longer longing
for deleted memories
you and I,
s u s p e n d e d
in icy glow
behind the plastic
eyes of apparition
sundered animation
becoming fragmentation
in severed moments
without pasts
slowly shuffling on
and off
this plain of
drifting dust
becoming
nothing
5 - breakin' the law of value
the march is on
and we cannot slow
the pace
stone by stone
foundations crack
and tumble
to the ground
all is crisis
all is crisis
decline and
disillusion
the clocks
have stopped
the hours
lay broken,
shattered like
shards of storefront
glass
estrangement
universal is
melting on an
unseen pyre
smoke rising
at the touch
of flame-smeared
hearts
multitudes, we
move
like
lovers
dancing in the
shifting light
of auto-fires
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
raise the scream
of refusal like a fist
in the face
of a corroded god
this dead-weight is
tired, all is crisis
all is crisis
from freeways, workshops,
battlefields
our martyrs call
as we grasp
the hour
in strong and earthy hands
and pound a stake right through
its' vampire
heart
the march is on
we cannot slow the pace
we are
the final crisis
and you will never
save this moribund machine
on the backs
and blood of those
who toil
7 - beneath a sinking sky (bonus track)
hiding from mirrors
shining jet in disrepair
awaiting angels
from some distant
fading star
elysium
evaporating
standing on earth
hallowed in radiation
wet with
acid tears
defeat after defeat
holds us like a leaden
weight
upon the silver
altar
is this the end?
can we walk beneath
a sinking
sky
forever?
defeat after defeat
an aching education
armor
for the struggle
shoulder to shoulder
casting stones
and petrol bombs
into the falling
sky
this is not the end
this is not the end