The Great Migration: Glass City

Glass City (A Painting of a Vision)

I get this feeling late at night
Deep inside that there’s something wrong
There is smell of death in the air
Like something left out for too long
We’re never lonely; we’re never free
Nothing is sacred in shrines of fear
Naked and living in a glass city
Waiting for something... already here
And is this going over your head
Or is it not coming through at all?
The picture that I am painting
Of the vision that I saw?

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Sidewinder slack tongue yakking
Hacking up our dreaming trees
Hypodermic spindle swindled
Where’s your prince down on his knees?
Carpets pulled out fly away
The monkey’s paw genie obeys
Wishful thinking – thoughtless wishes
Christmas lists harvesting slaves

Motion detector specters watching
The liquor lecture of the day
Righteous racket ricocheting
Stray-slaying peasants in the way
And in the trunks of hearse black limos
Hiding in caskets from the sun
Junky kings look from clock towers
While other’s see their work is done

Physic mystics, green-eyed enlisted
Twisted mislead follow crumbs
To candy houses in lichen spouses
To procreate atomic bombs
Through shrapnel fields, the serpent peels
Revealing all its mirror scales
As trees of knowledge bare placebos
And Oedipus chases white whales

Bloody war rag stabbed deep claiming
Shaming tame to drain and spawn
Gone ghetto Jesus to the psych-ward
The one-winged warthog rages on
Now decapitate the daisy blindfolds
Return the glass city to sand
On the shores of ancient mothers
In the pools of bleeding hands
Yeah!

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I get this feeling late at night
Deep inside that there’s something wrong
There is smell of death in the air
Like something left out for too long
We’re never lonely; we’re never free
Nothing is sacred in shrines of fear
Naked and living in a glass city
Waiting for something... already here
And is this going over your head
Or is it not coming through at all?
The picture that I am painting
Of the vision that I saw?

(X4)
Cause nothing’s changed
Cause nothing’s changed
Nothing’s changed at all

No, nothing’s changed at all…