Clear Light of... - Hark, Neil Fallon

Haemo-global

Apogeum

For sooth reveals

Algorythmic

Soul-seeker

Flatline freeze

Grim hoarding

While love sours

And broken dreams

Arcadia

Addict nation

Truth recedes

The signs are sealed in gold

The worm keeps turning

The lines are carved in stone

In the clear light of …

Starry times of

Bloom and prosper

Are n’eary seen

Heir apparent

Stand and deliver

Your vestiges

Parched of colour

Boom-time survivors

Robbed of valour

And forgotten

Sallow seeds

The signs are sealed in gold

The worm keeps turning

The lines are carved in stone

In the clear light of …

Bliss-stained cacophonies

Scoring slices in the sky

And the heavens' guts spill o’er

One hundred years

Of anonymous toil

Carry the world, oh

All in our skills

Forever stealing

A moment to ourselves

'Neath the grey firmament

Winding beauty fills my eye

And the heavens' guts spill o’er

One hundred years of anonymous toil

Moths to the lightbulb

Of our excess

So quick to deliver

A hollow end tyme hymn

A scar for your sequin

A diamond in flame

Crushed at the call

Of a mercenary

A tall tale of riches

They all end the same

A moment so clear

But now it’s too late

A pound for your liver, my friend

You’ve given them

All that you can

Don’t fall for

The scarlet demand

Walk on through the doorway