Death, Wolves Pray For Peace

from Ghost Lights by Gilded Age

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lyrics

Death threats
Sent through the
State-sanctioned
Outlets

Wolves in
Wool suits with
White teeth and
False Flags

Pray for
Rain and they’ll
Name the flood
Treason

For your
efforts you’re
named in the
Case File

Peace talks
re-framed as
coercion
and Violence

Is it you on that pedestal?
Where do you stand when the monument falls?
When your pride spills through cracks in the street
Fertile soil for poisonous seeds.

Maps - sacred lines
That fade with time
But scar the earth.

Each
Breaking clip
Eclipses
former dirt

Turned
Fore the road
or the thorns

Fertile Soil For Poisonous Seeds.

Death, wolves pray for peace
And dream of their kingdom-come

Vicious and fragile
Pearl-clutching martyrs
of some fictitious history
a deafening, echoing chamber of swans singing

Anthemic rhetoric
futile grasping at
counterfeit birthrights
fraying this tapestry

Threads in common weave mutiny

In a house
of many rooms
You will be
unwelcome
The old order
has passed away
and with it
Your
dividing lines
redrawn as roads
away from this
mess you’ve made
Map,
Compass, and
Knife in hand
we begin again.

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from Ghost Lights, released January 29, 2019

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