For the Birds

Deconstruct the fabric in all the stars where have you been Clever little outcast with dirty nails disturbing earth's topsoil again I confess not the first time to no return Everyone at the stake let's settle this One and the same with malevolence It's not a curse Unfortunately Your ritual is far more wretched Redirect the static to charge your heart like lithium Eye on the prize like a televangelist To make it beat blood like it once did That primal sense like if the voice in your head was heard Onslaught against your will and mental state That carved out this decay It's for the birds Atrocity A ritual turned us into something you hate Then made us drink the water we sleep in False accusation covers me Even if she floats in the deep end Your intent tucks her in with deceit And yet you still pray Is that your only defense Disconnect this radical heart but the mind is delirium Not unlike your own fantastic nonsense That you eat, breathe, then suffocate with Wrapped up in disbelief Torch lay to twigs below Bare feet while screams plead Innocent as the unborn child You can still hear them echo Through centuries You can still hear them echo Into the clouds You can still hear them echo And right back down into the ears of those Who never spoke out against extremism Lapse in due process Repentance for the birds Salem's lot sings Far less pretty and sheltered all the misled Then made us drink the water we sleep in False accusation covers me Even if she floats in the deep end Your intent tucks her in with deceit The fact you still pray doesn't justify this So long, oh well, all hope is gone So long, oh well, so help us God So long, oh well, all hope is lost So long, oh well, so help us God