Thursday, November 24, 2011

This Common Era

Oh, Brave New World 
…and all of us forced to inhabit it 
We were cursed at birth, 
Still we’re trying to make the best of it 
How this land has grown
it’s vines hovering past the heavens 
Yet they’ve branched far beyond us now 
To be raised merely as peasants
I’ve been beaten, I’ve been scared 
I’ve done everything but cared
Ruthless, but at least self aware 
That our futures aren’t ones to be spared
Yes, this is the common era 
These are the times that we’ve changed 
We’ll always be watched but expect to be self-taught
By the traitors who love us in feign 
We hail from the fathers of confusion,
The mothers of love and cocaine 
who sit now in their institutions 
Satisfied with days all the same 
We know of your good intentions,
pleased with the money you waste
Spent to pay off the reflection
Of how we follow all your broken ways 
But it’s different now, so modern 
Rusting even before we age 
Better off as lambs, in slaughter
To be packaged and then thrown away
Yes, ring the bells for the common era! 
We were bound to end up this way
Pretending to get by ‘til the evenings high 
Just like you were, back in the day
Now we’re off to end up in your shoes 
Letting our dreams vanish for jobs 
Which you’ll get now if you’re pampered and approved 
So be enslaved or stay being lost 

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