Afterdusk

First the auspices, they came dripping from the sky
 Set their course to the coast, black sand blazing in their eyes
 We woke and bore witness to a tarnished veil of gold
 Tiny corpses line the strand, obsolescence unfolds
 Intravenously, hypodermic pipelines seep toxins to the sea
 Adorning our shores with negligence
 Suffocate, immolate, cauterize the surface
 Poison dances in the sky
 Walk with me, walk with me and see our colonies
 Breeding dystrophy
 Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate
 Burn inside your chest?
 Palpitating, palpitating pulse
 Failing heart, cardiac convulse
 The violence we love, it's cyclical
 We rise and we fall, it's inevitable
 Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable?
 "It was all for nothing" – spiraling out of control
 Misdirected decathect
 Both indirect and circumspect
 Oh, architect of disconnect
 In retrospect, I now suspect
 Trace the hills with your hungry eyes
 Witness how, like an orphan's spine
 Cities protrude on the horizon line
 Greed will rise and carve out the sky, blinding us to the repercussion
 Pull the blood from the earth
 Leave a grave for your son
 Oil is the ink, fueling missiles like pens
 Writing oblivion
 Walk with me, walk with me and see our colonies
 Breeding dystrophy
 Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate
 Burn inside your chest?
 Palpitating, palpitating pulse
 Failing heart, cardiac convulse
 The violence we love, it's cyclical
 We rise and we fall, it's inevitable
 Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable?
 "It was all for nothing" – spiraling out of control
 Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable?
 "It was all for nothing" – spiraling out of control
 This violence we love, it's cyclical
 We rise and we fall, it's inevitable
 The violence we love, it's cyclical
 We rose just to fall
 I followed the harm to the site of infection
 The exit wounds where we made our home
 We were gorged with the earth and drunk off the seas
 And now we die with the taste of decay on our tongues