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Done In Our Name Lyrics
I should have known
we'd killed him
Tuesday morning.
I woke up strangely buoyant,
whistling a song
As when I bent
over the dictionary's c's
boldface, at the corner,
there to catch my eye,
were corpse candle, cauterize
and condemnation, cyanide
I should have known then
we'd killed him
should have sensed the
huge organism's
sly joy, cat's paw
Batting at his eye, in
the chamber, out again
cranky machinery of revenge
grinding to and fro
in the night
in our name.
One headline read "REPRIEVE"
and just a block away
another edition shouted "EXECUTED."
It was done
in our name.
All our hands
on the wheel
that sealed him
in the tomb.
All our ears
echoing with
it's metallic clang.
We all find ourselves
murderers now
participate in his death,
no - even more than that
We take part in his crime.
Others are saddened,
diminished or angry.
But once it's done
the clock has turned.
It doesn't matter
what we said.
A man, a boy, is dead.
It was done in the dark
Tuesday morning
in our name and all our hands
we'd killed him
Tuesday morning.
I woke up strangely buoyant,
whistling a song
over the dictionary's c's
boldface, at the corner,
there to catch my eye,
were corpse candle, cauterize
and condemnation, cyanide
we'd killed him
should have sensed the
huge organism's
sly joy, cat's paw
the chamber, out again
cranky machinery of revenge
grinding to and fro
in the night
in our name.
and just a block away
another edition shouted "EXECUTED."
in our name.
All our hands
on the wheel
that sealed him
in the tomb.
All our ears
echoing with
it's metallic clang.
murderers now
participate in his death,
no - even more than that
We take part in his crime.
diminished or angry.
But once it's done
the clock has turned.
what we said.
A man, a boy, is dead.
Tuesday morning
in our name and all our hands
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Based on "Done In Our Name" - a poem, author unknown. Any help, guys?
Head held up high, should I die. Feerless to the end. I will take their rotting living corpse and prepare it for my defication, from here or beyond. Doesn't matter to me. Anybody got a light?
Fight, don't run, to the death. I will never run again.
i got this confused with the other Anasarca. the much better Anasarca. i downloaded this thinking it was the emo one, its decent, some good stuff in here. but check out the other one.