American Lesion

Cease

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Blacktop pavement cover me
Like a Chemical Reaction or a steam roller
Spreading randomly
There's a distant buzz, and low frequency
It tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree, violently
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
Institution on the Hill
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
To ignite a people's will
There's a shadowed stain on the west facade
It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
And the descendants find it oh so odd
Oh so odd
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
Grave memorial hewn white stone
Like the comforting caress of a mother
Or a friend you've always known
It evokes such pain and significance
What was once is reduced to remembrance
And the generations pass without recompense
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
Everything must
Cease

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ltjpezgirl On Apr 14, 2002

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2002-04-14 04:58:47

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24y ago

this song really reminds me of Camus. everything must cease because nothing matters. its very existentialist. its just a beautiful song. greg graffin has created something really beautiful with this cd - its completely different from bad religion. the two bands have nothing in common except for graffin's amazing writing.

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