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A Future History

from Farewell by Old Year

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I'm just looking for a place to be, but it's not easy
looking for a hole to hide out in when these scars
litter every inch of soil and flesh left uncovered
by the callous and the strange assumptions we must make to keep moving.
We are living in the history we neglect, to our ruin.
There will never be a place to be.

There's blood on the streets 500 years deep,
and sweat in the sheets where bodies do sleep.
And we're just fighting over the crumbs,
playing victim martyr or savior while the whole world burns.

But if we cross the desert will we find a promised land?
or are we still extensions of the master's hand?
If we flee the city, will we find peace in the silence?
Or will our footsteps summon engines of greater violence?

Our roles were written long ago.
My boots on your back, their hands on mine.
Our best intentions are meaningless,
while we live and we die on our knees.
Violence genocide and slavery, endless war and misery.
Violence genocide and slavery, endless war and misery.

But you don't have to guard a cage,
you don't have to take a life.
You don't have to wade through blood and shit to feed your family.

You don't have to hold the gun.
You don't have to hold the knife.
You can sit and sip your tea until the flames reach your front door.

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from Farewell, released March 8, 2019

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