Shine On

Been a flower in bloom

Be a seed again soon

You know love be the food

Give me faith give me room

I will bloom again

Pain illuminates

I will shine on

I was made to shine on

I'm asleep in my enemy's dream

Climbing monolithic pyramid schemes

Singing life isn't quite as it seems

Would this flesh pass the test if I pinched it and screamed?

I see a white dove caught on the wire

I see her branches on the funeral pyre

I stole the ashes from the mouth of the fire

Built my bricks out of this and I carried them higher

On and on as the machine droned

As the masters of war traded blood for gold

Prescribed beauty to restore my soul

So I cut diamonds from the stones and i swallowed them whole

Washed them down with the dirt and the grime

I mined for days in symbols and signs

Cried with the colonised child of my bloodline

About the tale of the earth and the last paradigm

Been a flower in bloom

Be a seed again soon

You know love be the food

Give me faith give me room

I will bloom again

Pain illuminates

I will shine on

I was made to shine on

I saw that trauma was a coin with two sides

That could open up portals in the subjects mind

And that the diamond was a jagged pill

That the thrill of the beauty was conjoined with the ills

I spilled tears for the cage that we built

And all the resignation all the visions it killed

But that's the seed that oppression plants

When we believe these sycophants

I saw the strings of the devils dance

Bout every man for his own advance

Held the mirror and the shadow cast

I sent my dream to the prophets past

There with the cards, falling fast

13 hearts, on the mast

And the charts, unsurpassed

I fell hard and I asked

Been a flower in bloom

Be a seed again soon

You know love be the food

Give me faith, give me room

I will bloom again

Pain illuminates

I will shine on

I was made to shine on

And it starts to bleed, it starts to grow

It starts with me, it starts with no

To not turn cold, to not be owned

I will not fold

Steady as the workers, steady as the rain

Steady as the serving, steady as they came

Steady as the turning Earth, disturbed with the

Factories churning, dearth of enjoinment

Citizens yearning, dissidents stirring

Blurring the visions of the civilised vermin

Power subverted, struggles converging

Merged with the flame of a revolution burning

Not feeling powerless

In the face of wickedness

Political cowardice

Taking care of business

When they should to empower us

Fronting for the villainous

Let the rich devour us

And were so dangerous

They could be labour-less

So they're containing us

Their culture's flavourless

We're the antithesis

We could be limitless

We could be growing on the vines in the vividness

Been a flower in bloom

Be a seed again soon

You know love be the food

Give me room

I will bloom again

Pain illuminates

I will shine on

I was made to shine on

Flute solo