Polarized - Peter Queenan: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Polarized

1Singer/Songwriter2023

Song Details

Polarized was released on August 4, 2023 by Peter Queenan as a part of the album Awash

AlbumAwash

August 4, 2023

LabelPeter Queenan

LanguageEnglish

BPM68

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

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Water flows ‘cross a painted sky

As questions fail to answer why

The line of trucks that travels by

And has no purpose but to deny

The very nature of the butterfly

That lands on flowers that are meant to bring life to all

Given freely at day’s first dawn

Now used like it was a pawn

In the kingdoms of Babylon

Who knows of its phenomenon

At the counter that I drink upon

The lie behind the cause that has became the call

Tramping on the garden of God

Drawn as if to a lighting rod

They stepped forward while unshod

To stand as in a firing squad

Made to kill with just a casual nod

To which I cannot say or feel anything but appall

The crowds are simply drifting north

As day approaches the twenty-fourth

Of letters written with no remorse

To friends unknown from henceforth

And words once used to divorce

The couple now waiting for the footsteps of downfall

Old politicians all left alone

Behind the doors of their home

Telling stories in monochrome

Of pictured plastic and styrofoam

While stuck inside a softening dome

That keeps a lid upon the growing suburban sprawl

Strung out like a spider’s web

The double talk that has mislead

Right from the mouths of the multi-head

That seeks to steal that which was read

To children who wait in bed

Under the blankets that surrounds them like a prison wall

So see the others now found alone

Down twisted streets of cobblestone

That leads us on to the unknown

And tells us through the megaphone

Of life’s long lonely combat zone

That seeks out to destroy that which was meant to enthral

Such is slander, such are lies

Such the spin of the new surprise

This the game, and this the guise

Worked by leaders to revise

A world that once would brutalize

The ones who cannot fit the mold and the protocol

Public platforms of untruth

That sweetens the now uncouth

And spreads a net to capture youth

And pull them into the voting booth

Or set to fight both nail and tooth

While the master sits somewhere safe inside his hall

But patience waits behind the gate

That leads us then to await

The ending of the coming fate

Of tangled wires transmitting hate

And everything that we can relate

To things of no importance found floating down the outfall

What matters more now matters less

Than what it is that we confess

Within this complex game of chess

That leads us to life’s cold caress

Our hopes of finding nothingness

That frees us from the desire to bow down and crawl

So tell me now sweet maiden bright

From whence do I find your delight

With which to conquer the pending night

That captures me within its flight

And quells my hope and dims my light

Till its darkness becomes the purpose of it all

So fall the tears of the coming storm

That rise out from an earth now born

And travels paths once well worn

And leads the soul that was forlorn

To reach the place where it was born

Resting upon the hand that makes the final call

But look ye now unto the sun

That circles there on everyone

And tear down that which was spun

By people who hold dear the gun

For time has come to become undone

As we rise from the pit that wrapped us like a shawl

So let us rest now on the earth

Giving daily to a second birth

That leads us though we know not it’s worth

Mysteries for us to still unearth

That get revealed as the afterbirth

To take us home, heal our hearts and bind us into the one and all

Written by: Peter Queenan

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