Alexandria Burning

I used to think that memories were like pollen

I would breathe them in

And they would stick to the walls of my nose

And congest my amygdala with visions of everything

But oh, it's not so simple, is it?

When the fog comes rolling in, please know

I didn't desert you

I saved you from seeing the pain of the blinded

Can you hear the cries of the blinded?

Alexandria burning

This is genocide

You have taken our yearning, countrymen

And set forth a pyre of innocent lives

Do you feel the Earth turning?

What have you done? Oh, God, oh, sin

Fetishising the fruits of our knowledge

And leaving us with the ashes to begin again

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I'm so young and there's so little I know

Harmonising models of cherry soda

Clicking in rhythm with circadian footfalls

Cycling through an endless pattern of who I could be

If I just stopped falling

Spring comes to where I am

And I know I'm not getting anywhere

Droplets of moisture begging for rebirth

Let this be a sign unto you, oh you, oh you, oh you

Alexandria burning

This amicicide

You have met your potential, countrymen

In cowardly panic, and cast them aside

Did you find what you're missing?

Does that matchbook know your sins?

Expediting your self-inflicted punishments

And leaving you with the ashes to begin again

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In my dreams they will wait for me

They will let me bask like a lizard on a rock in bed

And I will walk through the fire, hand in hand

With the kid who used to aboard pockets of lichen crystals

In hopes that one day, in the reflection of one of the fractals

He would find a future for himself

And it will be beautiful

It will be so fucking beautiful