Revelations No. 34-Stephen Simmons

[ti:Revelations No. 34] [ar:Stephen Simmons] [al:The Big Show] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.70]There's a million senseless reasons [00:13.02]Why these stores on Main are closing down [00:23.05]As a million changing seasons leave their mark [00:26.92]On these people and these buildings downtown [00:31.17] [00:34.91]A billion vulgar dealings [00:35.98]Left these institutions bankrupt of soul [00:45.94]And a billion greedy minions took great harvest [00:50.57]A harvest they never laboured or sowed [00:57.69]With a hundred faceless coins in your pockets [01:03.57]And a hundred unmarked bills in useless wallets [01:21.71]Thought she had the answers to our ails [01:25.28]In her big and blue Star Spangled eyes [01:32.59]Took the milk from her breast then looked West [01:37.40]And marched on towards a blood red sky [01:44.03]Self-worship was the only flowing fountain [01:48.34]As other well's soon ran dry [01:56.21]Vanity's once proud majestic mountains [01:59.47]Timber stripped and her stones long since mined [02:07.90]Fasten these brass buttons on this thin worn out coat [02:13.59]Step into these sole-less boots and into the New World's cold [02:31.41]There's a pile of dried out bones upon that hill [02:41.71]Underneath the maple's Autumn turning leaves [02:42.97]Driving by with my family five years old [02:46.71]Not sure if it's a dream a ghost or an implanted memory [02:54.85]There's a pile of faded letters in foreign languages [02:59.59]Up to the threshold high [03:06.41]And though I cannot read them they call out to me [03:11.03]In the middle of this all revealing night [03:18.35]Confusing what's not real and what's certain to the eyes [03:24.03]And confusing what can't change and what could If I'd just learn how to try [03:41.91]The cosmos swung open and mankind [03:45.03]Did clumsily appear [03:53.41]And chaos was the order but so was feared [03:57.53]And so hated as entropy was revered [04:04.91]And so we turned our love to Destiny and Fate [04:09.28]As we struggled to take control of these quiet desperate lives [04:17.03]But Chaos never blinked he knew that Order [04:20.78]Was Divine and really always on his side [04:28.54]Copycat calamity and original sin [04:30.79]But don't you get too close there boy this property's condemned [04:37.79] [04:51.22]Help wanted sign in the window of the Diner [04:55.59]As you enter and take your seat within [05:02.91]Old man in his corner wicker rocker [05:07.16]Chastens you with a toothless grin [05:14.53]His stories from the old days make you long [05:18.78]For simpler and easier times [05:21.91]And the sweet nostalgic candy pulls you in [05:30.78]As it's cavity's dig deep into your mind [05:37.61]He's quoting Revelations and George Wallace [05:43.11]And every empty suit and false prophet who dares to call us [05:55.18] [06:00.42]We all stood at the alter vowing charity [06:07.67]In an innocent time [06:11.67]We took our bride with promises of love [06:16.12]And honor and obedient lives [06:23.24]And the fruits of our love bore us children [06:27.42]Named malcontent apathy and denial [06:34.67]But when the mother of our children shows her age we break our vows [06:39.24]And leave her with these kids that just won't mind [06:45.80]Ah but Stawberries will never taste so sweet to the lips touch [06:51.43]And the thighs of all the women they have surely lost their clutch [06:55.18] [07:15.17]At the bottom of an eternal abyss [07:29.68] [07:48.98]Where once truth did lie [07:49.97]We scratch around with the Veils of Maya [07:52.41]Pulled back o'er our eyes [07:54.10]The thoughts in our head [07:57.73]Can't seem to find their way to our tongue [07:58.48]Blood in vein can't find the heart [08:00.41]And the air can't find our lungs [08:01.41]The artist's of our time void of expression [08:01.67]Collective petty thoughts of false conviction [08:01.91] [08:06.20]We ride upon a great horse that does not trust us [08:11.42]Command a mighty army that will not obey us [08:16.64]We bear children upon children who do not love us [08:21.97]As we seek to prove that free will does not suite us