You once shared a cradle with me

Now you're wearing riot gear

You claimed angelhood and fury

Now your lungs are breathing fear

You were the masthead of the ship

Now you play the mutineer

But I recognize you

Yes I recognize you

You were butterflies in legion

Now you're smoke over the plains

You were prides of turbid lions

Now you're proud of being tame

You walked the hallway of the gods

Now you stumble through rеmains

But I recognize you

Still I recognizе you

I recognize

Something's starting but I don't know what it's called

I recognize

I am thrilled and I am killed and I'm enthralled

With my own two eyes

I can recognize anything at all

You were lighter than a ghost train

Now you're rusted on the tracks

You were the spirit of the age

Now you're mislabeled in the stacks

You once taunted executioners

Now you're sharpening the axe

But I recognize you

Yes I recognize you

And I saw the twentieth century

Through nuclear family eyes

Now I'm rising from the radiation

Tried and traumatized

But I'm hoping as you crush me

For second you get wise

And you recognize me

Yeah you recognize

You know my whispering

I know you're listening

And that you recognize yourself

In all our distancing

What we are witnessing

Is a kind of conditioning

Is all the dissonance

From all the songs we wished to sing