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written by me on October 11, 1997. War. What is it good for? Human history is conflict. Past to future. The more things change... I have recorded several versions of this song over the years. It is one of my favorites.

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Fumbling in rows in columns, we march into the cloud
The dust we breathe, eternal war
The blood we drink, the stone
Alone I bear a thousand marks
Alone I march into the flame
The flicker tongue, the prickle thorn
The blood I drink, the stone
And so I fall from grace

I hang on limbs of twisted trees
To march among the leaves

You drift alone through starry skies
To gaze upon the Moon
To raise the cup, to break the bread
The blood you drink, the stone
And so you fall from grace
They gather closely 'round the stone
To march a different beat
Alone I watch the mountain peak
I march amidst the snow
And so they fall from grace

They hang on limbs of twisted trees
To cry among the leaves
The vacant eyes of the dead revealed

Wading through pools of liquid life
We fall into the fire
To raise the dead, the vacant souls
Consumed by the stone
The dust we breathe, the death we wield
The falling trees and the burning fields
The angry fire, the crumbling bones
The blood we seek, the stone
And so we fall from grace

We hang on limbs of twisted trees
To die among the leaves
The vacant eyes of the dead revered

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from Archive Volume Five: 1997, released November 23, 2021
music and lyrics by Brad James Beske
recorded at the uranium playpen

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Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness. ... more

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