the pillars of the world were shaking like the legs of a drunk hot winds ripped the hats off all the ladies all about town that day then they caught us ran us ragged beat us bloody put us in a dirty cage now we re screaming bloody murder we are starving won t see the ocean side again continents and mountain ranges boats out in the harbor rivers clouds and cities all aflame the sun went out the sky went red the horses our dancing in their skins the taste of ash and sulfur on our lips where is my boy where is my son i seem to have lost him in the crowd he was holding to my hand just a moment ago i know he cannot find his way he is so small he is so lean he looks like a scrap of paper on a branch i am flesh and you are pale i am sleeping you are dead we re all playing cards as the ship goes down we re living as if we are not hanging from a precipice shuddering and lurching off the edge but someday this will all be gone as fast a match can be struck take warning for the veil is very thin the signs aren t difficult to read we tread so heavy on the ground and one day the ground it may give way i see you gilded gentlemen i wish i d set a torch to you while i still had the freedom of my legs i do not trust you with my life i do not trust you with my past i do not trust your hands upon the world but now i m sunken in the ground all my strength to move is gone and screaming is the last recourse that i have you ve left us with a barren earth we know we are the aching land a scorching waste with all the life of coal