Empire Lyrics

I can bargain with your karma,
loan you zen, sell testimony,
and you'll buy it with a smile
because you're numb and fucking lonely.

I won't stand to be kept waiting long,
while the sirens sing their song
and the hull of the good ship Circumspect
is dashed upon my wrongs.

Don't pester me;
let the hole infested fester.
Don't hector me;
your lecherous didactic lectures
are not surrogacy
for the thoughts you think you're thinking.

Little one, plague has come,
yet you tear me down.

And though the rain comes pouring over,
and though the rats come pouring in,
and though the curtains dropped, it's over;
you tear me down.

And though the rain comes pouring over,
and though the rats come pouring in,
and though the curtains dropped, it's over;
you tear me down.

You tear me down.

Why am I the fucking worm
in your terminal sojourn?
Your face a buffet
in its resting place.
Little one, plague has done
what I was scared to do.
I tried to help you through,
yet you tear me down.

And though the rain comes pouring over,
and though the rats come pouring in,
and though the curtains dropped, it's over;
you tear me down.

And though the rain comes pouring over,
and though the rats come pouring in,
and though the curtains dropped, it's over;
you tear me
down.

Nonsense,
nonsense where your head should be.

I stand on giants shoulders
isolated by a guillotine.
No one remembers
the man of integrity.

I stand on giants shoulders
isolated by a guillotine.
No one remembers
the man of integrity.

Look out below
for the footprints left in snow
alone when things are slow,

but a pair
part when things are going right.
Redundant fight or flight.
I don't need a guiding light
if we avoid the night.

I can show you nothing if your mind has the means
to glean the empty space between a death and a dream.
Again.

What a wonderful form of dread.
Unscalable;
your formidable wall of dead.

You cast your lot

with the sinners of Babel and Sodom and rot.