take me through the valleys
where the concrete prisons rise
gray against the hazes
raining acid from the skies
take me though the graveyards
where the truth dismembered lies
hushed before stained windows
and pressed beneath damp eyes
take me though the war zones
where our tattered angel flies
above the fields of folly
overrun with hollow cries
take me through the caverns
where our echoes fade away
to silence in the darkness
buried deep in rock and clay
take me through the visions
where our drunken masters sway
on the pinnacles of penance
bleached with tears of yesterday
and take me through tomorrows
past the sorrows of today
through the waters of repentance
where the dreamtime creatures play







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