sleep lying under the layers under the layers under the layers under the deep locked up inside of cages inside of cages inside of cages inside the keep looking before the moment before the moment before the moment before you leap one, then ten, then hundreds, thousands more nothing like the things you’re looking for turning around the corners around the corners around the corners around a dime something within a symbol within a symbol within a symbol within a sign hidden among the fragments among the fragments among the fragments among the mines one, then ten, then hundreds, thousands more nothing like the things you’re looking for nothing like the ones that came before biomechanical work of art butterfly valve inside my heart get a good grip and rip apart go and try it again, go and try it again, go and try it again, go and try it again never had a chance, not from the start listen for the things i tell you, hark climbing aboard a vessel aboard a vessel aboard a vessel aboard an ark diving below the water below the water below the water below the dark leaving without a remnant without a remnant without a remnant without a mark one, then ten, then hundreds, thousands more nothing like the things you’re looking for nothing like the ones that came before biomechanical work of art butterfly valve inside my heart get a good grip and rip apart go and try it again, go and try it again, go and try it again, go and try it again never had a chance, not from the start

strung up by the wires just to make a liar’s pact divination dire for a gun-for-hire hack bleeding from the briars, taken under by her act fire at the garden and the garden fires back are you still breathing, can you still see? tearing up flowers, cutting down trees choking on vines and biting down leaves living off lies and dying off dreams tricky pick of thorns, getting cut up by the prick of it stick it to the thicket, go and get into the thick of it listen to this bicker fit, get a little sick of it have it bound in wicker in a written-in indicavit are you still here or have you gone back? dragging your feet, stop dead in your tracks cardiac crimson, immolate black lying in a lead-lined porcelain plaque cannonades, cavalcades, promenades, more playing dumb games, all to settle dumb scores winning dumb battles, all to lose a dumb war scattering corpses, skeleton corps do you still wonder, do you still feel? does it all matter, is it all real? edifice golden, carapace steel turning your tungsten winter-kill wheel

data corrupted, dividends gone digital deadbeat, daggers all drawn paying off debts for a duel at dawn nullified threats for a petrified pawn metal mask on, beckoner bound mimic of a man-made battle-bade hound live fire trial with a file not found marking down miles in a dreadnought drowned tearing through tangles, kicking down drones wire grip handles over my bones microchip mantles, silicon clones nobody knows, nobody knows something all mangled, something in pain something in shambles, give it my name sticking lit candles into my brain nothing to gain, nothing to gain, nothing to gain all of my features, none of my gall bodies all buckle in a bareknuckle brawl slamming thick skulls through a firebrick wall nothing on disc, nothing installed nothing at all hiding under those mugs nothing but bodies with brains full of bugs nothing but lead-veined single lane lugs suckers all swallowing hollow-point slugs tearing through tangles, kicking down drones wire grip handles over my bones microchip mantles, silicon clones nobody knows, nobody knows something all mangled, something in pain something in shambles, give it my name sticking lit candles into my brain nothing to gain, nothing to gain do you feel safe behind your big screens? do you know what molybdenum means? beating back hundreds of your machines making a scene, making a scene i can take every one of your pawns bullet-brain vultures, bodywork sawn seagulls and bombs, whatever you want bring it all on, bring it all on, bring it all on