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Love and Death in the Airport

from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions by kurt van hook

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Love in the airport

And if you hurt someone
When it is time to speak
I pull out my gun
I’m on a losing streak

When the morning star
Sinks in the evening sky
When the battered bird
Puts down an even nine

I threw off the night
Light and ancient skin
I don’t play to lose
Baby I play to win
The rootless trees of life and death
Throw off the chains of all pretense

My eyes filled up with light
And I fell to the ground
I hear the engines roar
They make the devils sound
In Los alamos the time it seems the same
As Hiroshima on the brightest days

Oh to be born again
From the metallic womb
The sweet smell of life
From that prevailing tomb
But I gnaw my teeth and I sleep to dream
Into the void I yearn to leap

We strip away as we swear and curse
The ruffled cloth of the universe
A prayer to William Blake gonna say out loud
Hide mortality behind the darkest clouds

Searing wind spread the dead before
The baby blue before the sky was born
I’m here for good I’m here to stay
Ain’t that what we all want anyway

Slip away and ya can take the hit
You’re a fuckin ass, you’re a piece of shit
Who drops a ton on a tiny child
Who takes an inch when he can take a mile

You know you made your bed
So go on lie in state
It’s fun to ramble on while millions
Hide there heads
We will tear it down the body limb from limb
Don’t Hesitate to confess the sins




When I attained my true enlightenment,
I threw off the night like an older skin.
My eyes they filled with light
and I fell to the ground.
in Los Alamos,
I match you pound for pound

It is much better leap we all into the void
We are all grown up now put away the toys
The pain and life that comes with dissonance
Will now collapse the tower, buckled in the wind

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from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions, released May 26, 2021

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