This film on your anvil has no shutter and no scope
And woman, and song, and play do not appear
Intoned words, the carpeted funeral
March slung like bullets from the mouth of a distant god
Leave you shaking for mercy’s
Shameful touch. You are shook
By each woken man, each of these
Traveling magi, each supposed healer

Shook by a single sound
That could burn down your projected
House. Eyes like suspended lanterns
Wandering between crowds, attaching
Themselves to a trolling thigh here
An advertisement there
The film! battered at home, pounded
Into your family’s forum, shoved
On your friends’ beds, grows
Through winter the moss and a thistle. It covers
A plaque tossed off by a preacher

But it will not cleanse
It will not show
It will swim in your head
Until the credit rolls
It shall not cleanse
It shall not show
It will slowly be covered by
Dunes, blood, dust, and snow

You are resurrecting a history found
Gutted and stripped by adolescent
Sharp-toothed boys. Through arduous
Season and season it spills
Itself for them. It says
“Run with my line, my moves
My play; tell your elders whence
It comes.” No more the taint of populace
The cancer of submission, the folly of art

My stains are all of this life
Strewn o'er head and hand
Soaked on piercing bone
Steal my stage
As you will, long as each bone is paid
And each stain rendered permanent
On the farce of your love
I sell wounds for fun to fans
And have a new thing everybody should see!
It is an anvil wrought of my inverted
Stars. You must turn it, now
Just so

But it will not cleanse
It will not show
It will swim in your head
Until the credit rolls
It shall not cleanse
It shall not show
It will slowly be covered by
Dunes, blood, dust...

And the film of all that's good will froth and run
New flora bathed in blood
All cost no sun
The film of all that's good will froth and run
New flora bathed in blood
New bush, no son
Emergency. Rock

Of the People For the People By The People
Of the People By the People By The People
By the People By the People By The People
By the People Sell the People Buy The People
Emergency Rock