Aftermath

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[Verse 1]
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 Windows in a silent room , sunlight burns the walls to black
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  Angles and dimensions melt while colors drip and pillows crack
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  Reflections of my memories like pictures pasted on a sheet
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  The ribbon film of separate frames lying curled up at my feet


[Verse 2]
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 The film is just a snake design and the photographs are fading fast
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 These are not memories of mine I have no future, no past
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 I've seen a thousand afternoons dissolve into the night
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 Like sugar crystals on a spoon they disappear from sight
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Gray days from the crispest morning to the warmest afternoon   in this room


[Verse 3]
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 And I like to draw the face I saw so long ago
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 My image in the mirror tells the jagged lines which way to go
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  The black and white description of the sole survivor of the Holocaust
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 All the rest were lost


[Verse 4]
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 Do you see this paper face? It has no color or no mood
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  My eyes are ageless, as am I. I need no sleep, I need no food
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  I am a king, but like a child the other children laugh at me
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Tongues of fire, wagging wild they dance around me merrily


[Verse 5]
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 I'll kill them all and if I fail I'll kill whoever I can find
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 Then they'll beg me to be kind
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 My eyes have seen far more than eyes can ever tell
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 This planet plunged through mushroom fires of earthly hell
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   I know that my sweet Jesus said that he'd return
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But Babylon has fallen and the cities    burn