It Failed to Explode

It failed to explode

Talk is cheap

A euphoric reflex as tensions overheat

Action comes cheap

Romance and emancipate, romance and emancipate

As tensions overheat

As tensions overheat

Define liberty

But a short-lived reprieve until it's once again displaced

Grievances cease

To hang on tenterhooks until

To hang on until

It's once again displaced

It's once again displaced

It failed to depose

It stalled at the coming to blows

It failed to explode

Explode, explode

Celebratory in the debris

Deceptive empirical collapse

Yet it failed to atone

It failed to explode

Sadly illusive in its epoch-making

Pocket change for a moment of peace

Because it failed to disown

It failed to explode

There's always a hole to fill

Circumventing convictions

Autocratic traits are the constant

If at first with a different spin

It failed to explode

Outside watchers beat their brows

Nurturing vested interests

Is the infinite struggle worth it?

When there's always a hole to fill?

It failed to explode

It failed to explode