cease

Lyrics

blacktop pavement cover me, like a chemical reaction or a steam roller, spreading randomly, there's a distant buzz and a low frequency, it tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet, and it shakes the leaves off of every tree, what pretension! everlasting peace, everything must cease, institution on the hill, like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor, to ignite a people's will, there's a shadowed stain on the west facade, it has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud, and the descendants find it, oh, so odd, what pretension! everlasting peace, everything must cease, grave memorial hewn white stone, like the comforting caress of a mother, or a friend you've always known, it evokes such pain and significance, what was once, is reduced to remembrance, and the generations pass without recompense, what pretension! everlasting peace, everything must cease