An Eschaton
February 6th, 2007
The eternal splayed out on the kitchen floor
Bleeding
Curse the name
The closed and slamming door
Dagger tongue and missing teeth
Hollow voice and shaking ground
No predator, no prey
Only victims of war lost long ago
The manifest irony in killing one's father and then becoming him
A penny for the old guy
Kingdom of the broken jaw
Wasteland and hallow
Splayed out on the kitchen floor
And I just watched
Watched you both
Burn us all down
Please stop
Daddy, please stop
Brother, please stop
I wish I could take your place
That blood running down my face
Raised up like the snake in the wasteland
Scapegoated violence to end that cycle of receding behind walls and cellar doors
Then flattening the world beneath your heel
I could have been something virginal
Veiled in blue and white and red
Cutting the snake off at it's head before it eats it's own tail
But I was frozen to the spot
Staring at an eschaton
Blood and water poured out
Blood and water pouring out
Laying there on the hardwood floor
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but when good men do nothing
The eternal splayed out on the kitchen floor
Bleeding
Curse the name
The closed and slamming door
Dagger tongue and missing teeth
Hollow voice and shaking ground
No predator, no prey
Only victims of war lost long ago
The manifest irony in killing one's father and then becoming him
A penny for the old guy
Kingdom of the broken jaw
Wasteland and hallow
Splayed out on the kitchen floor
And I just watched
Watched you both
Burn us all down
Please stop
Daddy, please stop
Brother, please stop
I wish I could take your place
That blood running down my face
Raised up like the snake in the wasteland
Scapegoated violence to end that cycle of receding behind walls and cellar doors
Then flattening the world beneath your heel
I could have been something virginal
Veiled in blue and white and red
Cutting the snake off at it's head before it eats it's own tail
But I was frozen to the spot
Staring at an eschaton
Blood and water poured out
Blood and water pouring out
Laying there on the hardwood floor
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but when good men do nothing
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Writer(s): Mac Murphy
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