"Death of the Nations" genre: Poetry
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	CD: dimension dancing   Label: Cafe' Be At Credits: Written and performed by Armond Blackwater
	Story Behind the Song A description of the Utopian world that exists after the abolition of all Nations. Lyrics Death of the Nations The death of the nations Came finally After a long and arduous journey Many lives were wasted Along the way Many souls were incinerated In defense of flags In defense of an ideal That was not worthy Of a second of consideration In support of altruistic self-sacrifice A pitiable squandering of spirit and soul The death didn't come easy The Nations would not die easily For without the Nations The Leaders Would have nothing to lead Nothing to lead! Nobody to subjugate! Power Would slip from their hands And the Leaders would find death As their only recourse The Leaders Who steered the ark of mankind On a devastating path Away from true spirituality Away from self-actualisation Away from self-awareness Away from self-realisation Disconnecting all From the Oceans From the Mountains From the Forests From the Sky From the Stars From the Moon From the Earth From the Galaxy And the Universe In pursuit of Things The Leaders had said, "Things will make you happy You must have things to be happy You can have enough things to be happy Happiness? Denied! You don't have all of the things Thus, happiness cannot be yours Happiness can never be yours But you must try You must achieve You must sacrifice yourself For the Things Of all Particularly, Things for the Leaders The wise and knowledgeable Leaders. For without the Leaders You are nothing. You cannot survive. You cannot make it on your own. You are too frail and feeble a creature To make it on your own You need the Leaders You need the Nation Bow down to the Leaders The Leaders are great The Leaders are your only chance For survival Pledge allegiance To the Nations And the Leaders Will allow you to survive The Leaders Will allow you to breathe The Leaders Will give you Things Great Things Things that will make you happy Briefly The Leaders require that Many of you must make The ultimate sacrifice You must lay down your life To promote the Nations To promote the Leaders Even though The Leaders are Wise And Knowledgeable, The Leaders can find No peaceful resolution To the conflict Over the Things Things that will make you happy Things that you must want Things that you must crave Things that you must possess To be happy, Briefly It is the Price The Price of Things Die So that the Leaders may have Things So that the Leaders may have Power You cannot survive without the Leaders Or the Things Look not inside yourself It's too scary in there It's scary inside of you You musn't go there Open not The Doors to your soul Seek not The Light within The Light is Evil The Light knows not Of Things The Light cares not For Things The Light is Evil" The Leaders feared the Light Lightness could eliminate Dependence on the Leaders Dependence on the Nations Lightness would illuminate The Spirit within Lightness was Evil The Death of the Nations Began innocently enough With the burst of technology In the waning days of the Century At first, the Leaders loved the new technology Many new Things were generated by the new technology Though they were Wise and knowledgeable The Leaders failed to perceive The danger to Nations and Power That the new technology brought They failed to recognise The dangers of allowing The drones of the Nations To communicate across the boundaries of Nations Soon the drones realised That the drones of other Nations Were much like themselves That they were not evil empires But simply lost souls Blindly following the Leaders As lemmings Toward the chasm Drones began to question the validity Of the teachings of the Leaders Of the quest for Things At the sacrifice of their souls And their lives Music began to take over as the universal language That bound all drones To their creator To the Lightness within themselves Too late, Too late The Leaders realised the threat To their Power To the ideals that provided the Power To the Things By that time The war was over The Leaders had lost The drones had already found The Lightness within The drones discovered That within them God existed That they were the God Of their own universe That as God They had the Power To survive without the Things Without the Leaders Without the Nations And then, The drones systematically Disassembled Disemboweled The Nations The drones became One One within themselves One with the Oceans One with the Mountains One with the Forests One with the Sky One with the Stars One with the Moon One with the Earth One with the Galaxy One with the Universe. That is when the Leaders died And all mankind Celebrated the orgy that was The Death of the Nations.

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