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The Chaos Monster

from Pilgrimage and Rampages by Swamp Spice

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lyrics

In ancient Babylon and Assyria
The monster symbolised chaos

The king defeated monsters
And brought order to the world
Bringing water to the desert
And making plenty when there was none

In the modern world
The monster primarily chases teenagers across a TV screen
Often methodically
Often with a calculated menance

We now embody chaos
And the monster represents a cruel order imposed upon us

The holocaust was another modern invention
That was formal and bureaucratic in nature
Its victims documented, numbered, stamped, and finally destroyed

There is a monster in our culture
And its face is a seething mass
Of change requests, sign-offs, milestones, and budgetary requirements

A corporate ant-hill that functions like a particularly slow and inaccurate computer
Like the analogue calculators once used
To find the appropriate trajectory
And tabulate those numerical identifiers
Of importance to the national campaign

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from Pilgrimage and Rampages, released August 11, 2019

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Acoustic Punk from Edinburgh.

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