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A million shells like stones in sand |
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The soil painted by severed hands |
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Locusts breed in a child's skull |
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A hallowed tank, rats in its hull |
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Wars keep the vultures fed |
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Friends and foes, all extinguished |
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Mother Nature can't distinguish |
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Between a killer and a priest |
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Heroes are the victors butchers |
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All their rapes and all their tortures |
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Cleansed by rains of gold and years of rot |
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The human god mirrors the human brain |
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Pray for power and material gain |
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So the rich die old, and the poor die shot |
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An armed cadaver on a fleshless horse |
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Father time knows no remorse |
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For rifts of west and east |
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So the scavengers feast |
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A martyred saint's but a jackal's meal |
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And for all man's pride and religious zeal |
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Both the church and the whorehouse burned |
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The flies, the ants, the carrion thrive |
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Hornets die a ribcage hive |
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And the world, the world still turns |
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When all mankind tastes the earth |
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Mother Nauture will give birth |
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To another king of beasts |
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And still the scavengers feast |