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Section titles:

I. Sedition
II. The Would Be King
III. Conquest
IV. Conquered

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-Sedition-

If they took your clothes
If they stole your sheets
If they took your eyes
Or deprived you of your sleep
If they held you down
If they bit your tongue
If they bent your limbs
And dragged you through the streets
If they broke your heart
Or if they stole your love

Bide your time in silence, we’ll pay them back with violence
They will taste sedition as we break the institution

If you have your strength
And if you have your wits
If you’ve got your voice
I promise you’ll be heard
If you give your sweat
And if you give your blood
If you give your life
If you give your soul
You can have a chance
To be the greater good

Bide your time in silence, we’ll pay them back with violence
They will taste sedition as we break the institution

(All men must face things they fear, some men become the things they fear)

There’s no more need for you to hide yourself
The walls they fell and we have freedom now
Day by day we’ll build our lives again
And put them back the way they should have been
There’s no more need to live our lives in fear
But fear is old and sometimes comfortable
Bit by bit we’ll make mistakes again
As children grow into the men they feared
And all men fear


-The Would-Be King-

I will rule you if it’s the last thing I do
You’ve held me down too long
Off with his head!
And off with your head!
And off with everyone’s head!
Everyone’s head!

-Conquest-
(instrumental)

-Conquered-

Nothing could save all that I had planned
I ended myself before I began
I put no foundation beneath the walls
I built up the framework and watched it fall
(Once it was set in motion, I had no choice at all)

Memory is not kind to those that fail
and valiant intentions will not prevail
With all my defiance left unheard
Here I lay conquered by only words

Since life’s a song that always gets played wrong
When do the mistakes become the part that belong?

How do I let it go?

credits

from Five Exquisite Corpses [unabridged], released June 22, 2014
Section 3 (Conquest) drums by James Bonomo
Drums recorded at Meridian House by Mindy Watts

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Elegant Mess is the combined effort of recording artists/producers/film music composers/weirdos Howard Buckwold and Preston Gabriel Garland.

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