Come what may
Lay your eggs where it's warm
We come here to swarm
Come by sea
Swarm like smoke in the dawn
We were the young
We were the swarm

Radiolarians
Midges and moths
Cut from a cloth
We were the young
We were the swarm

Flailing fetal fleas
Feeding from the arms of the master
Burrow into me
And this is sure to misspell disaster
Oh and the young in the larval stage
Orchestrating plays
In vestments of translucent alabaster

So they took me to the hospital
They put my body through a scan
What they saw there would impress them all
For inside me grows a man
Who speaks with perfect diction
As he orders my eviction
As he acts with more conviction
Than I

Oh, burrow into me
This is sure to misspell disaster
Oh, burrow into me
You're feeding from the arms of the master

[Repeat: x3]
We were the young
We were the swarm
We were the young
Radiolarians

Come what may
Come what may
Come


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Masterswarm Lyrics as written by Andrew Wegman Bird

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    I disagree with many of these interpretations, though, open to any input.. I believe its referring to a society where what we believe is so influenced by the "Master" that we are as larvae or fleas that only live off of the host of another without the ability to survive on our own beliefs. "swarm like smoke in the dawn" you've heard the saying "like a moth to a flame". We are drawn to one that offers comfort and warmth not knowing we are losing our independant thinking. "misspell disaster".. I was raised in a very religious home where if you were to stray from a "right wing" way of thinking, we were doomed to disaster, the obvious choice would be to conform. This "master" I believe is similar to what's written in our Constitution with all of it's flaws. We have choices and this song is speaking very much about how we are so influenced by the prejudices around us.

    "inside me grows a man" is obviously his soul. This means I am my own person and don't have to be led by a society which is flawed and corrupt. Yes, radiolarians is all about organisms that are integrated and many different forms all rolled into one, so I believe with others when this speaks of the diversity in society. It's all political though it should be completely natural to cohabitate.

    M1975on October 04, 2011   Link

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