XX (City Grave) / Wasteland Redux

This injustice renders my thoughts ineffectual. Forgive me, Lover, and forget my sullen face. Privilege brings us to this place of human currencies. (We) buried our sisters in a glass display, only to evaporate to a toxic skyline – underneath we sell off the bodies. My body became a graveyard where they buried thirsty souls. Show me your righteous leader; I’ll show you the bullet holes. The preacher ¹ with the parched tongue and the “God” that he controls: “Shake off the sin! Shake off the sin!” And spit out your cacophony of lies. I’ll climb through your screen and bleed out the image you left in me. ² But God, are you man? Then how do you see me? From where you sit up in heaven ³, looking down on my hell. My body chokes back. “I have nothing to draw with and the well is deep – where can I get living water?” ⁴ Enslaved in the “Land of the Free” ⁵ – my prison is our wedding bed where you left me for dead. You’ll leave us for dead. Apathy was our anchor to a digital sea ⁶ where you drown in the comfort of our complicity. Can Love save me? Will Your wrath avenge us? ⁷ [¹ Our sister’s captor; Several famous pastor types – names omitted for legal reasons² Sex slaves forced into pornography, speaking back to our collective male gaze.³ Psalm 115:3; 139:8⁴ John 4:11⁵ America⁶ Thrice, 2007⁷ Deuteronomy 32:35]

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 18, 2026

We "won the War"[i]; we made a temple to thieves enshrining the great criminal who promised heaven without God[ii]. If we had sight to seem to see the seven seas could cease to be or freeze in me. We'd shake this sudden sundering and subsequently cross the strait[iii]and traverse the wastes[iv]. We'll beat our rifles to shovels[v]and dig a proper grave for our sons who saw the end of God[vi]: Wasteland. The flag will fall with the wall we built[vii]: Wasteland. Apostate to the State, Witness to the Dead[viii]: For you know only a heap of broken Image[ix]and when you rid this earth of God we shall shelter Him underground[x]. Fall into the coldest wastes of humanity - darkening circles fed by deepening graves. "Death solves all problems[xi]," your heart is a statistic[xii]. No mother, no resistance... but still she precludes the grave. They saw the end of God: Wasteland. The flag will fall with the walls we built: Wasteland. [i]The Soviet Union "won" WWII on the Allied side of the conflict but suffered far more causalities than any other nation involved -- an estimated 10,000,000 soldiers and 10,000,000 civilians. [ii]Joseph Stalin defied the spirit of Marxism-Leninism by taking on a persona of god-like qualities -- promising prosperity to his followers while exiling, executing, and starving large portions of his country. [iii]Bering Strait [iv]Siberia [v]Isaiah 2:4 [vi]The USSR's attempt to rid the nation of God [vii]Prophecy of the events of November 9, 1989. [viii]The sacred witness, Lady Iulia de Beausobre [ix]T.S Eliot, The Waste Land [x]Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov [xi]Joseph Stalin [xii]"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of one million is a statistic." -- Joseph Stalin Thanks to ptrck for sending track #3 lyrics.Thanks to brianfehrlellc for sending track #5 lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com SILENT PLANET LYRICS

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 18, 2026