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Start Dictation​/​End Transmission

from Kill the Messenger, Keep the Message by BEFORE BRAILLE

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START DICTATION/END TRANSMISSION

Start dictation, I’ll leave something behind
Poised bloodletting struck a nerve from the ink
Dried up tissue like the cracked riverbed dammed from sea
No one can save me from myself
Or cut off the flow as I bleed
I’ve found all the scars that I’ve looked for
To help you feel sorry for me
I can’t wait for this day to end
Flick the lights and end transmission
Batteries melting alms and flint
A chemical-caused dissolution
A question of choice or disease
The dissenters will gather and clamor
To inspire excuses for greed
I can’t wait for this day to end
Flick the lights and end transmission
After Braille I will leave something to find
And when I die
Choir will sing
Hallelujah
No one is safe from disaster
And no one is safe from the pain
Without knowing them both is enamored false sense of security
I’ll do what you do
Try to make it through
By fooling myself I’m victim to all they do
No one’s saving you while they’re chaining your feet
Just don’t complain, no point anyway
Without all those chains you’d still drag your feet
The same old songs the DJ plays
I know all the words before they finish each phrase
But they’ll trick you with gauze over wounds that they tame
And hide for you art so competition is null & plain
It’s the same old songs, with the same old names
And it’s nobody’s fault, or so (cronyism) claims
But the same old songs that the DJs play
Will offer me nothing like the songs they played yesterday
The same old songs that the DJs play
I’ve decided I will not fit the format they’ve made for me.

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from Kill the Messenger, Keep the Message, released December 1, 2008

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