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vanishing animal

by Dead Ven

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1.
burn it down 02:52
enslaved by the chains of our own design and reigned by the price of our desire barely breathing in the quarter or whatever is left over after spending the rest of ourselves for the lie we're trained by refrain of the ages past to strain for the things that cannot last so we carry on the chorus of the ones who fell before us though the glamour of the prize is fading fast we were taught to live our lives like this we were taught to fight and die for this but i could not abide anymore burn it down we'll build it up again somehow burn clean absolve us of these sins and from the ashes start again when the night is alight blazing bright as the sun and all of our tribes unite as one we'll dance around the trash fire of this goddamned rotting empire and revel in the awe of what we've done burn it down we'll learn to live someway, somehow and find inside a way to be a thing that is more wild & free
2.
down to dirt 05:04
a man works, a man slaves a man saves & then he pays but he can’t buy, more numbered days and he’ll go down, go down to dirt down to dirt, we all go all go down go down to dirt a man fights, a man kills and man steals & then he kneels but he won’t right the guilt he feels and he’ll go down, go down to dirt a woman loves, a woman sings she fits her finger for a ring she won’t escape death’s final sting and she’ll go down, go down to dirt what can we do, how can we care? purpose a path, follow it fair but save a breath and say a prayer to hope some good follows us there… down to dirt, we all go all go down go down to dirt
3.
the struggle 03:09
i want to see souls behind every eye i want to know hope in every sunrise i want to burn like fire when the poor are despised and the weak are trampled despite their fiercest cries i want to live like everywhere’s home i want to love a& never feel alone i want to silence the words that break the hearts before the damage is done and crumble the walls that hold back what’s to come but i see surrender in your eyes, i’ve known it in my own a thousand times with last hope tied to the mast, helmed by the fears of failures past but wage battle and move forward, the struggle is its own reward i want to breathe like death’s grip’s closing tight i want to sing like it’s “Whiskey Tonight” i’m going to stand by my family & damn all that come against the ironclad of our might we’ll haunt the prose of the poets long after we’ve died
4.
democracy 03:53
the sea does what it likes, & what it likes is destruction we’ll be the waves that beat the walls of bloody tyranny we’ll beat our hands ‘til tyrants fall and all stand equally we can be the sea, you and me
5.
LASTER 02:49
when we go what will remain of all the joy and all the pain, and the trials of a life we were so eager to explain? day, by week, by month, by year so many go and leave us here to wonder even more or ignore so we won’t fear for the ones returned to where we’re from, the tragedy of “the good die young” we mourn the loss of life and we struggle just to see with an open mind and an open heart, open hands is where it starts sometimes you do the deed of the one you want to be through echoes of their lives we trace, actions of uncommon grace and we think for greater good, if we could we’d take their place but the fates have chosen us the ones to carry on the numbered run the remnant of the work for the world was left undone by grace, by chance, by the work of these two hands i will rise and rise again as many times as i fall down by sweat, by blood, by the tears that come like flood i will not be dust, but ash – i will use the time i have i will LAST, o, i will LAST

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released November 8, 2016

illustration by Bradley Parker
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