[Verse 1]

Tuned in, my goddess looked radiant as moon skin

Praising what I plucked from the ocean like a bluefin

Great lakes of saline solution

That form from her tears shed in this age of fear and confusion

Are teeming with life, how to shepherd something new in

And salvage what we can from the wreckage and the ruins

The systems you believe in are the same institutions

That train goons with nightsticks to cave your roof in

Moving on, cross the Rubicon

Lost in the details and minutia of the plot as we troop along

Removing flies from my bat soup using tongs

Scrutinizing every drop, trying not to lose my calm

[Chorus]

Where we headed next? Is it safe yet?

Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck

What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks

And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex?

[Verse 2]

There's fingers pointing every which way

A wilderness of mirrors in the Devil's ribcage

You misbehavin' kids better do as you're told

Listen to your Uncle Sam scold, putrid and old

The very same that threw Frank Olson through a window

That COINTELPRO'd movements and uprooted their goals

And counted up his silver coins like Judas of old

I wasn't with the King of Kings, I was superimposed

Said it twice more, waiting for the rooster to crow

Bowed my head in shame, felt like I was losing control

Met some grifters on the journey and some beautiful souls

And some mixtures of the two, that's the rules of the road, so

[Chorus]

Where we headed next? Is it safe yet?

Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck

What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks

And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex?

[Interlude]

Let's play something really weird and wonderful

Now, where did the story begin?

[Verse 3]

First came the birth pangs

Followed by the myriad lifeforms the Earth sustains

And the birds sang as clay made from the dirt and rain

Became a network of nerves and veins

That gained self-awareness and learned the names

Of the beasts and fish, all was bliss

'Til we mainlined venom from the serpents' fangs

And learned to throw rocks and ball our fists

Then the whole world calcified

Taught how to pry metal from the mountainside

And forge weapons to defend falsehood with every ounce of pride

I walk city blocks watched by a thousand eyes

Look at all the vampire bats

That jeer and laugh, perched high on the pyramid cap

They prayed on our fear in the year of the rat

And treated half-truth as empirical fact

I place no faith in this

Or any system that grinds men's bones into grist

In between the gears and cogs and the iron-clad jaws

Of leviathans that roam the abyss

Any time the words fail, the music speaks

So you can let loose and move your feet

Then the world's a cathedral to seek and find

You don't need the mediation of a Judas priest

Who's in charge?

The wings are detached from the fuselage

The "now" is a product of the tech goliaths and the war machine

But I can see another world through the bars

And the future's ours

First came a flower that emerged and opened when the word was spoken

I climbed from a foxhole, hurt and broken

And sorrow transformed into pure devotion