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Here Comes The Gun

from Riven by Nick Harper

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Carl Sagan's pale blue dot vs. Charlton Heston's cold dead hands..

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Crack in the obelisk - Free the basilisk
Ransack Atlantis - Choke the metropolis
Mass hallucinosis - Facts without basis
Statistical sophists - Doom in the profits
False analysis - Ordnance in excelsis
Fantasist catharsis - Move in to the darkness

I tied these words up
I cut them down dead
I ripped them from the pages
They were still in my head
I meant to move my mind a million miles or more away from here
And play the song on the sonic waves a way away beyond the stratosphere
But every time I get that high I see the world is just a tiny pale blue tear
And here comes the gun

Viral oasis - Infected stasis
Car sin o' genesis
Art eyrie - o' sclerosis
Praying man - ‘tis plastic gnosis
Moral paralysis - Drastic prognosis

Oh there I go again
Spreading the joy and the happiness
Should I be sexing up the mess?
As the Earth revolves around (the gun)

I meant to move my mind a million miles or more away from here
And ride the song on the sonic waves way way beyond the stratosphere
But every time I get that high I see the world is just a tiny pale blue tear
And here comes the gun

It's just another little echo of the empires coming home
Lionhearts in the heart of the battle-zones
Blood brothers spilling blood brothers' blood's how we're known
As the chamber music smokes,
There's murder in the jokes,
One for oil and oil for one!

I meant to move my mind a million miles or more away from here
And play the song on the sonic waves a way away beyond the stratosphere
But every time I get that high I see the world as just a tiny pale blue tear
Here comes the gun
Little darling

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from Riven, released October 1, 2013
Also featuring Ben Jones on BVs and keyboards

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Nick Harper England, UK

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