The Edifice

Come hear my eyes, hear me cry

Come hear my eyes, hear me cry

Rallied reformers strip it bare

Dissolution of the walls

Sculptures are marred

Crushed with stone

Regardless of persuasion, desecration occurs

When art is regarded as a proxy

For the ideology represented

Sculptures marred, beneath the chapel

Erasing past figures to divide opinion

A crooked smile

Hail the exile

Come hear my eyes, hear me cry

Come hear my eyes, hear me cry

The take away from this long line

Of destroyed and damaged art?

The take away from this long line

Of destroyed and damaged art?

Take away from this long line

Destroyed, damaged art?

The take away from this long line

Of destroyed and damaged

Crushed with stone

Regardless of persuasion, desecration occurs

When art is regarded as a proxy

For the ideology represented

Sculptures marred and buried beneath the chapel

Hail the exile, a crooked smile

Or belligerently accept historical revisions

Regardless of persuasion, desecration will occur

To remove is not to erase

Rather a means to reconsider the values you yearned to promote

To remove is not to erase

Rather a means to reconsider the values you yearned to promote

Rather a means to reconsider, to promote

The values you use

The values you use

The values you use to promote

To remove is not to erase