Twilight's Last Gleaming

He was the artful dodger of the bullet blasts

While the cop cars passed him by

For the wolves-in-sheep's-clothes politics

And the pop stars

Young men die

While you while away our pensions

Cheat on your wives and taxes, no

Is your embezzlement also heaven sent

Like these prodigal planes in the sky?

The last time his card gets slid into

The war machine

Charging another round .

The distance

Between what we say and what we mean

Change in the underground

Translate the life blood spatter

Rescue me from this binary chatter

The last time

His card gets slid into the war machine

Charging another round

Waking up from a nightmare

Drowned down there

The dead boys' stare

How does the cost outweigh

The life we need

The air we breathe?

Do we tell each other

When we can't sleep?

Wake up sweating in goodwill sheets?

My optimistic apocalypse triptych:

Inflammable material

Send for me

The last time

His card gets slid into the war machine.

Charging another round .

The distance

Between what we say and what we mean

Change in the underground

The prophecy in

The life blood spatter

Rescue me from the binary chatter

The last time

His card gets slid into the war machine

Charging another round

Our waters,

The tide we'd

Watch it unpolluted

Take us all out

With this age of

War crimes

Worn so weightless:

Distraction

Its not mine

The weight of living the choice

To defend

Its our time

His card get slid into the

War machine.

Charging another round .

The distance

Between what we say

And what we mean

Change in the underground

Prophecy in the life blood spatter

Rescue me from the binary chatter

The last time

His card gets slid to the

War machine

Charging another round .