Hail the Lizard King!

by Mister Citizen

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lyrics

By ugly light
In rented cells
My silver churches
Through alarm clocks bell.
A waking
marionettes
Happy to help.
At one with
mannequins.

Thrown to the beast,
Discarded Meat
The slurried chum
of inconvenience
and obsoletes,
For in leviathans of glass,
There is a Chrysalis,
That turns
this flesh
to chrome machines
Or strips the bones to feed.

Up to my balcony.
Look on and see.
Slaves
battling
one step beyond
the jungle pits of barbary.
The ladders greased
The doors
Hermetically sealed.
Over the screams
With sweat
These middle men
Shine shoes
And blades
Of guillotines.

You are the cog
The cell of blood
That powers
This heart

Witness my majesty
How many of your Gods
Have split the sky
with silver fingers
Where has
Your Father been?
In marbled halls
Pacing back and forth
Lost inside his rituals
Crumbling
under scrutiny

Expressionless,
nails down to Wicks.
You boy
mix elbow grease
Grind cartilage
Make sawdust!
For my Velvet lord’s
Face down in pools of glutton sick.
Go Fetch it quick.

Scattered thoughts
and feelings hidden
Disconnected messes
minds
Left in tatters
Still they bow they
espouse my virtues
and site
My “miracles”
hiding walking corpses
in their earthly matters

Surrender ye!
the chase
For certainty.
Run down
for-closed upon
in fields of factories.
You might scream
but sound won’t carry
I have levelled
every valley
for convenience

Pastoral genocide
The river
breaks its banks
with native blood

The songs of birds
strangled
by the buzz of pylons
in the wood.

I thank you for your forms
To carry out this function

Colonising
space-time
With no purpose
but
Compulsion.

They look to other planets
Abandoning
Their wake
at my instruction.

For embedded
In this gospel
Is a message and
that message is
destruction.

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released April 1, 2023

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