The Granite Gaze

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Are we the ones left behind by those who weave cords that bind?
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They draw the marrow from our very
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bones and we in turn, turn on our own.


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Stood in line in horsehair shirts we queued up to eat the dirt,
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We traded lumps on narrow streets,
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can't bite the hand when you've no teeth.


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And it's a standing ovation for the shadow of a stone
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As we dig into the soil beneath our homes.
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The future's further day-by-day as our fathers turn away
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And leave us clinging to a mother who eats her own.


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The granite gaze upon us now, a skulking mass recalling how
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To plant a secret and tell no lies
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for now we own those same stone eyes.


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And it's the last gasp of wonder for a cretin on a throne
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As our daughter's sneak away across the foam,

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The future's just a thing we say to keep the sordid past at bay
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Still we cling on to the mother who eats her own.

[Interlude]
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We are the ones left behind in swaddling bound with bailing twine,
               A
They stole the marrow from our very
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bones and we in turn, turned on our own.