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Heaven Circus

from Universary by David First

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Was nothing too bold or obscene?
We froze as all good was withdrawn
The agencies waging their faith
Claimed they knew God alone
Was God even home?

Meanwhile provoked sides conduct
Furtive mutual strikes in the sand
A madness that spills fire over the hopeless
To stop them

And how is it likely so few will succeed
When there is a chance for redemption?
Is life just a fever that lifts as we rage
Over sufferers hung up on heaven?

Alive on our piece of the ball
Surviving the scourge we installed
The doctors performed the most drastic of surgeries

Bounced by the tragic
His movements on trial
The Selected One fought off contentions
Approved but now striving to strangle the laws
He is prone to believing in heaven

When somebody cries, "won't our liberties die?"
Indignation deflects every question
The crossed over lines weigh on everyone's mind
Is justice belied until heaven?

"How dare infidels criticize?
If only you saw through our eyes
Your lack of all decency comes through quite clearly
Our virtue's discreet in disguise".

While single cell evils invade every shore
And shift their campaigns of ascension
Pursuing the use of an excellent ruse
They are all on the hoof into heaven

As global insurgencies rise
Our stars crave a shield in the sky
And mocking the evidence
Out past the purview their brains can't

Resist the Calypso of elderly harms
In their deep need to seize all dimensions
So they vie for a prize surely buried inside
The big box that we boast is called heaven

Can secular tourniquets bind us in peace
When the conscience of nations is threatened?
Demented traditions of hatred must cease
Or impossibly block us from heaven

Though lonely sure voices arose
Insisting we all have to grow
And yes, we must fight the most righteous of battles
To see all disparities close

Now everyday warning horns blow
And every nerve's overexposed
The tangled convictions still tend to flow downward
But may reason and tact?
Heaven knows

credits

from Universary, released July 30, 2018
Zeena Parkins – electric harp
DF - vocals, guitars, harmonica, programming

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David First New York

David’s bands/projects include his psychedelic punk band, Notekillers, SWATi - a drone collaboration with acupuncturist Isobeau Trybula, The Western Enisphere - an audio/visual exploration of psycho-perception, and the AM Radio Band – a solo project for vintage signal generators, oscillators and transistor radios. He is also the proprietor of “Dave’s Waves" – a sonic restaurant A/V installation. ... more

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