Blacktop pavement cover me Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller Spreading randomly
There's a distant and a low frequency It tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet And it shakes the leaves off of every tree (violently) What pretension! everlasting peace Everything must cease
Institution on the hill Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor To ignite a people's will
There's a shadowed stain on the west facade It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud And the descendants find oh so odd (oh so odd) What pretension! everlasting peace Everything must cease
Grave memorial hewn white stone Like the comforting caress of a mother Or a friend you've always known
It evokes such pain and significance And the generations pass without recompense What pretension! everlasting peace Everything must cease
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