A Flare Gun

Sign me up 
To sacrifice
I want to do something with my life
Instead of being slayed by every day
Such a quiet resurrection 
Rises from this unmarked grave
Just keep your mouth shut
You got paid

Your meaning is demeaned
Do you have any decorum?
Anyway
This is so far from what I dreamed
Ideals have been rarely met
Longings fade out and we forget
Ideals have been rarely met
Longings fade out and we forget

To stand for something
Is to be met with a blank face
The standards are so low in this place
To think beyond
Is to talk of the unknown
Ridiculous and pretentious
They scoff
As they drag you further below

Your meaning is demeaned
Do you have any decorum?
Anyway
This is so far from what I dreamed
Ideals have been rarely met
Longings fade out and we forget
Ideals have been rarely met
Longings fade out and we forget

When did this country become Hell?
Demonic grins
And thoughts which never wished you well
No want for loyalty
No want for trust
You can only join
If you become one of us
Walking the streets you wonder
If you are the only one
You might be the only one who survived
Because demons shoot down the likes of you
As their only means to stay alive
May day May day
Bring your flare gun
I fear I might be
The only one
Emergency Emergency
Please see the smoke through the trees
Would rescue me?
May day May day
Bring your flare gun
I fear I might be
The only one

A Flare Gun

3rd track from the A Simple Equality EP

To Defy Nurture & To Exceed Nature 17.10.13
 
It was never going to be easy for you
Your mother went into labour 
With a black eye & two ribs bruised
An adolescence continued
With more bad news
Others would have longed 
To crawl back into the womb
 
No standards of influence
It's all lessons and lows
Learning the hard way
If she comes out alive
Then she must be more alive than most
 
Growing up
becomes a case
Of how much can you take?
When a parents words are packed with venom
Which sees the spirit break
If anything saved her
It must have come from deep inside
Her physical mentors knew 
Little of what it is to be kind
 
No standards of influence
It's all lessons and lows
Learning the hard way
If she comes out alive
Then she must be more alive than most
 
Rising from the lows
What do we behold?
She broke away from the physical
& lived through her soul
Kind & brave
Courageous & compassionate
Her empathy exceeds the tutelage of holy manuscripts
A love for life
She knows so much of what could be
She is the happy ending
While we would have died in the tragedy

To Deny Nurture And Exceed Nature

The Destroyer

Do you want to tell me a story?
Do you want to spin me a lie?
I know you
& i can't see any truth in your eyes.

 He smiles and pats me on the back
but i can see the knife tied to his thigh.
His words are deep and exact
but i have heard them a thousand times.
I have heard them a thousand times.

 Really he's saying to me,
"Follow me, oh follow me".
Like a child holding fathers hand
smiling and laughing, 
but you dont know his plans.
Your smiling and laughing,
 but you dont know his plans

 He bought out the garden of Eden
so he could dig an entrance to hell
& his victims... erm I mean friends.
That is where, that is where they dwell
That is where, that is where they dwell.

 But you my friend will not destroy me.
I have met you and your kind.
But I have yet to decide 
Do I gain or lose a bit of myself every time?
Do I gain or lose a bit of myself every time?

I definitely know
Im always leaving something behind...

The Destroyer

Title track of the A Simple Equality EP

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A Simple Equality

She lives in the forest 
Stroking bees 
Pressing her lips against the bark of the trees
Talking to all
Because all is alive
To her this natural
While we guffaw through the restrictions of our own lives

She asks for the Sun
& duly it comes
We treat our luck like a curse
& still it gets worse
She follows the flow of life
While we submit to a freedom
which only comes once we've closed our eyes

She gathered  her resources together
and now she can paint
She writes poetry to the trees
Upon their bark
She knows that their spirits will forever keep her safe
She's certain of this
So she never need ask
We demean the serene as we cackle & laugh

She asks for the Sun
& duly it comes
We treat our luck like a curse
& still it gets worse
She follows the flow of life
While we submit to a freedom
which only comes once we've closed our eyes

& now how we are so civilized 
The paranoia
Oh the pressure
Convinced of actions which have never given us pleasure
Smug yet never knowing
Never sure
Too petrified to ever ever ask for more 


A Simple Equality

Fairy Tales & false Idols

Tell the pilot that we're heading for turmoil
He seems to be flying into it 
unaware
Lightning striking against the wings
The thunderous bellows 
of Zeus when he sings
But its like the pilots not even there
Dont you hate it
when all of the people you put all your faith in
Just dont care

Fairy tales & False Idols
Is what I was raised on
A lingering lust
is all I ever have to gaze upon
I long for that which I cannot touch
& Idolise those who have way too much

Charity begins at home
We just waste it all on the admin
By a house
Take a loan
 Fill the pockets of the money men
Hopeless & Poor?
Waste your money
in an online store
But you'll always want more
Dont worry they'll be happy to offer it

Fairy tales & False Idols
Is what I was raised on
A lingering lust
is all I ever have to gaze upon
I long for that which I cannot touch
& Idolise those who have way too much

Our lives tattered & sellotaped together
Manipulated so the soul 
no longer lasts forever
If every human were to feel great
Who'd you look down on? 
who'd you berate?
We may not have lives to celebrate
But we can clean the slate
They may control 
the printed word
& the satelites
But we can control our fates
This is all in our minds
You can controls your fates
This is all in our minds

Adam_Clark.