#853 - warlike and stupid

 

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warlike and stupid

the past and its people

 

oh pious they were

and we must weep

 

narrow, never listening

they knew their way and humble

 

occasional or odd idea

a lot of it was hate

 

forgive them

never got a go

and yet here we are

 

wheel and fire

 

we’re going there

we’re all going into the past

where there is less and less to know

 

look at them back there

scratchy film or in books

in monuments crumbling, gone

 

they’ll tell you it’s the other way

but the past is where we all go

where everyone’s diminished

 

oh pious, pious, we must weep

the past has paid for us all

 

these were the angry fools

of swallow

we were the hostage forfeit

 

oh credulous and tithed a war

price they had to heed because

 

and as for you?

were you ?

were you there at all?

 

the people who remain in the pay

of the past

they are prey to a higher power

prey to the luck of the draw

 

you decide!

who is it did us so darkly?

 

pious they were with their filth robes

and worse thoughts, if you can call them

with their whiff of eternal truth

 

a little laughter when one fell

but mainly it was over you go

that’s done now

that’s all in the past

 

and counting

 

oh, you who must measure everything

you measure up your own box

 

it too falls apart

and this is what you paid for

 

we’re all of us going there

 

I volunteer

I don’t get a penny

breathe the air

still free

 

we’re going

and we’re going on

 

bow down before a clock

for we must always honour time

 

oh pious

all weep

 

and somebody wants to chuck a bomb

I get it

I get why

 

who will fund the tree up?

who’ll pay the sun to glow?

 

warlike and stupid

never worked

yet

and now today

excelling all creatures else

 

oh pious they were

and we must weep

 

now and in the hours to come

 

if you want a better world

you have to do more than pray