lirik lagu lighght – the temple (libretto)
[vocals: eamon ivri]
gore-tex in the club, balenciaga amongst the shrubs
for good or for worse, the mercurial survive
the element that stands neither clearly as friend or foe
who can adapt their att-tudes to please the m-ss
reptile humans wearing whichever greek player mask suits the best
the pressure you put melts into thin air as they side swerve with a smile
but even they are not all powerful
the reptile beings are a fractured people whose own factions fight
i have pity for them
their eyes that which crocodile cannot let forth real emotion
but there’s a nugget in there somewhere
a pipe with no valve
but also no steam to cause an explosion
just an acid slowly eating away the interior
my pain happened for no reason whatsoever
or rather, there were reasons it happened
and those reasons are actually quite important for me
at least to get to the root of my bullsh-t
but after i’ve tackled with the reasons which stand like pillars keeping the structure solid
after i’ve pushed them, crushed them like samson, the temple crashed all around me
i pushed the rubble off my injured self and took some steps
turned around
and what i observed was the following
a mound, no longer the temple as it stood before, all temple shaped and whatnot
but a pile of stones, crushed facades of gold enameling peaking through the dust
and slowly but surely, envoys of the lizard people came to make their offerings
it’s still a f-cking temple, and this will not do
now my suffering has taken on a sense of ruined splendour
i race to clear the piles
i make calls to contractors to clear this rubbish that weighs so heavily
it is pain, pain with the weight of ages
and now i am informed that i do not have a permit to clear
i attempt to apply for said permit, but a notary is needed
this could take months measured in working days
and even if the notary is obtained, the process has to restart based on if the files have been filed in the right order
and beyond this i’m told that the files need to be filled out and matched in reverse triplicate
i hang up, exasperated
i fall to the dry earth in a symbolic pose
i slowly sob, but not cathartically
the lizard people continue to gather with offerings to the site
a kindly seeming lizard person tries to console me
“hey come on buddy, don’t look so sad!
you managed to crush that temple that was getting you down all by yourself. great job!”
and offers me a sharped tooth smile
that i must say seems quite genuine
and pats me on the back with a scaly claw
the ruins have begun to take on a low audible hum
begin glowing, and slowly sputter black bile
i’ve crushed the pillars
but these illusive mercurial forces keep the cycle structure here
a festering wound spilling forth molten plastic
turning solid but liquefying and escaping if i try and touch them
my healing is arbitrary in a sense
if the process hasn’t begun, this would not have been made
but that isn’t helpful
i don’t know what is
maybe fun?
no, fun is a distraction
but fun as a life source
a fountain that springs forth
a pint with a friend can give me the strength to see another day out on this miserable plane
a dance and a boogie can fill me with a joy unheard
but growing from within
f-ck these lizards
let them eat each other
stand up for yourself where you can stand up for yourself
when you can stand to do it
i want to see you happy
i want to see me happy
Lirik lagu lainnya:
- lirik lagu adriano celentano – lotta lovin’
- lirik lagu andris ērglis & cacao – reiz ziemassvētkos
- lirik lagu jeto en si bemol – perdón por lo de tu dpto
- lirik lagu fetty wap – teach me
- lirik lagu worst party ever – chofu
- lirik lagu sergio caputo – non t’aspettavo più
- lirik lagu anvil – talking to the wall
- lirik lagu escobar macson – les quatre dark vador
- lirik lagu patient sixty-seven – what’s left of us (reimagined)
- lirik lagu ornella vanoni – il giorno giovane