Empire

I can bargain with your karma
 Loan you zen sell testimony
 And you'll buy it with a smile
 Because you're numb and fucking lonely
 I won't stand to be kept waiting long
 While the sirens sing their song
 And the hull of the good ship circumspect
 Is dashed upon my wrongs
 Don't pester me
 Let the hole infested fester
 Don't lecture me
 Your lecherous didactic lectures
 Are not surrogacy
 For the thoughts you think you're thinking
 Little one, plague has come
 Yet you tear me down
 And though the rain comes pouring over
 And though the rats come pouring in
 And though the curtains dropped, it's over
 You tear me down
 And though the rain comes pouring over
 And though the rats come pouring in
 And though the curtains dropped, it's over
 you tear me down
 You tear me down
 Why am I the fucking worm
 In your terminal sojourn?
 Your face a buffet
 In its resting place
 Little one, plague has done
 What I was scared to do
 I tried to help you through
 Yet you tear me down
 And though the rain comes pouring over
 And though the rats come pouring in
 And though the curtains dropped, it's over
 You tear me down
 And though the rain comes pouring over
 And though the rats come pouring in
 And though the curtains dropped, it's over
 You tear me... down
 Nonsense
 Nonsense where your head should be
 I stand on giants shoulders
 Isolated by a guillotine
 No one remembers
 The man of integrity
 I stand on giants shoulders
 Isolated by a guillotine
 No one remembers
 The man of integrity
 Look out below
 For the footprints left in snow
 Alone when things are slow
 But a pair
 Part when things are going right
 Redundant fight or flight
 I don't need a guiding light
 If we avoid the night
 I can show you nothing if your mind has the means
 To glean the empty space between a death and a dream
 Again!
 What a wonderful form of dread
 Unscalable
 Your formidable wall of dead
 You cast your lot
 With the sinners of Babel and Sodom and rot