Filth plays a role of utter importance
So essential among other requirements
A mind clean conflicts with prioritized interest
The black sheep be filtered out and painted white
So good the threats are handled at their birth
Sit, stand
Exercise the muscles
Sleep, wake up
Stretch your eyelids wider
The architecture is divine
Designed by those secured from machine's embrace
Come all as one
Forget moon and sun
I'm your god in disguise
Tables are ready
Meals as prescribed
Planned for years from now
We'll push those down your throats
Forget moon and sun
Come all as one
Forget moon and sun
I'm your god in disguise
Have your meals as prescribed
Planned for years from now
Swallow the garbage
Forget moon and sun
The layers perfectly aligned
To sit on top of one another flush
Come all as one
Forget moon and sun
(for who needs them)
I'm your god in disguise
Tables are ready
(your seats are numbered)
Meals as prescribed
Planned for years from now
(stay hungry)
Swallow the garbage
Forget moon and sun
(hands off the menu)
Sit, stand
Exercise the muscles
Sleep, wake up
Stretch your eyelids wider
Raw material, unprocessed, only removed from the mold
Painted the same, storage space filled and for scrap you shall be sold
Manufactured, then distributed to hold the system's bones
In a constant hurry run to end up replaced and dismissed
The architecture is divine
Designed by those secured from machine's embrace
The units failed shall do no harm
In factory's noise be they left behind
The architecture will bloom
In kingdoms of units consumed
Putting the dead dreams to use
There’s no way to grow if they are not abused
What one entity desires challenges product lines
Customizing the items sacrifices the outputs
(Never mind)
Scroll the stripes, stock the units
Shut them up, seal the covers
Pack the boxes, stick the labels
Out the door, then ship the parcels
Scroll the stripes, stock the units, fill the shelves (and the warehouses)
Within realms of norms agreed
My comfort zone discrete
I dance having a form abstract
Talking head dummy doll
Regulations defined subconsciously
I break down into
Statements crystal clear
Reason why no one hears
A look into the eyes of truth takes all the charm away
Cover the stripes in carpets red
Leading to your success
Ignore the distractions
Close your eyes and meet your demise
Don't look around, we'll carry you to places never seen
For the mirror shows things in ways frightening and obscene
Listen to me for
I am the voice of wisdom breaking out of your soul
I am the seed of disaster planted in you
Just one look into the eyes of truth takes all the charm away
Now that your passion's killed
And appetite assaulted
Swallow moon and sun
And gulp with countless stars raining
Spit the definitions out
RNA structures, light diffraction
Don’t analyze a thing
Return what you were given
Save romance for the dinner
Have your compassionate face and emotions fake ready
No matter what layer all function the same
As the feeding hand slaps your face - look down shall ease your pain
Cure the disgrace
Thank you so much for what we've done so far
Now let me lead you some more
Take no offense, I know, I’ve been there
You’ll be here after me
One day my dirty hammer shatters
You’ll come to guide the clueless to where they belong
I’ve conquered you, filthy scum
I’m your beloved parasite
You deadly plague, sweet remedy
I know you so well, you’ll take on my legacy
Now I welcome you back inside...
credits
from Jar of Joy,
released August 24, 2018
featuring Zara Gevorgyan and Vit Pilkevych
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