Released on January 19, 2024

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[Intro]

"And we act like artists like, like, Banksy or like artists who do-

Or like how Unus Annus has- they made these videos for a year then deleted it from their YouTube channel now, like

And like all this temporary art is celebrated as like, as like, it's like

'Oh, they did it because it's, you know, like, it's, it's destroyed once it's like done.'

It's like, it's like, first off, it's not really destroyed because someone's ripped all those like YouTube videos

Someone has a picture of that Banksy piece, like

It's not like- there's several things about it

But here's what interests me more:

What about the artists who did that?

If- Or like, like, captured it, y'know

Cause it's not like it's a new concept, y'know

Or like, uh-

If- If it-"


[Verse 1]

The ghost rots away

In the embrace

Of its own gaze

In automatic cycles and habits

Paper the mirrors, closed eyes see clearer

Die cut my shadow into the drywall

Ego at half-mast, gas masks and hazmats

Chemical war


[Verse 2]

Children were singing

Animals bleating

Markets and town square

In dissonant fanfare

Laughs at the gallows

A truce in the trenches

Guards at the fences

Saying "all that you're seeking won't be found here"


[Interlude]


[Bridge]

Goodbye, mayfly

Fly from still water

How long I have loved you

How long have I loved you?

Goodbye, mayfly

Call it a bad dream

How long I have loved you

How long have I loved you?


[Outro]

Skin to walk into

Warm blood to fill you

A heart with a glass door

All that you asked for

From family nexus to family nexus

Vox populi, vox dei

Held like a headwound

Violence will free you

Heart with a glass door

All that you asked for, coming to you