The World is Not Run From Where You Think It Is

from To Everything, with Barbarisms by The Eikon Lamp

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i'm in antwerp dreaming on counting houses
were they withdrawn
seems nothing speaks to a liar's worth than where his soul is kept
there's rows and rows of cobblestone
leading somewhere overrun
you speak in pieces; fire breath though you don't know the first of it
on wooden floors you genuflect to the old and stolid caste
the world revolves around the sun and nothing else and for no one
it turns half-truths against themselves
the rot is coming the ice will melt
ancien regime is anyone lying moldering in dirt

where's the modern printing press
where's the english bible, ascendant man
i don't think i can bear the torch for an enlightenment that's underscored
i'm reticent beneath the walls
there's no letting up on growth at all
but i'd drown myself for you to hear the world's not run from where you are

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from To Everything, with Barbarisms, released September 10, 2017

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