Perfect Future - How the World Works
from Plea for Palestine by Fourth Row Records
lyrics
Every time I flip the hourglass, I receive perspective.
I can add it up in piles of sand.
How did I ever ignore such imperfections?
After the smoke cleared, only the governments gained.
Empires and emperors have never felt shrapnel, their relatives weren't casualties.
After the cities are razed (and the names are stripped from those buried beneath rubble), they speak in abstracts about "acceptable losses."
Every time I flip the hourglass, I receive perspective.
I can add it up in piles of sand.
And this is nothing new. If only I would have known, I would have tried to change the world-how it works.
I can add it up in piles of sand.
How did I ever ignore such imperfections?
After the smoke cleared, only the governments gained.
Empires and emperors have never felt shrapnel, their relatives weren't casualties.
After the cities are razed (and the names are stripped from those buried beneath rubble), they speak in abstracts about "acceptable losses."
Every time I flip the hourglass, I receive perspective.
I can add it up in piles of sand.
And this is nothing new. If only I would have known, I would have tried to change the world-how it works.
credits
from Plea for Palestine,
released September 22, 2014
Borrowed from "Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914-1915"
Perfect Future is political emo from the East Coast
Borrowed from "Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914-1915"
Perfect Future is political emo from the East Coast
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