Blacktop pavement cover me

Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller 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 peoples' will

There's a shadowed state 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