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Ash and Embers

from Emergency Response (demo) by Pete Davis

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Put the warning lights out, there's nobody there to answer all the calls we've made.
While pacing about and racing around to find a way to shut them out,
While we're planning our escape form here at last.

Stay low, lest they find us out, with heads on clouds, it seems the pilot light's gone out.
And, filling with doubt, thickens the air with quivered lines that undulate into the ground.
This vessel is sinking fast. Lock our arms for one last breath.

So breathe in deep as soon as you can feel it.
(we were the grateful ones)
Let this sea breathe salt into your lungs.
(Clerics and criminals)
Gasp the high tide to flood your lungs, pray the pain won't hurt you last.
(Good Heaven was our estate)
Get this over with.
(the river ran right through here)

You're so beautiful now. The fire surrounds, the ash and embers fall about.
The smoke's pourring out, panic abound, towering over our normal body temperature. As if it could not be worse, they have broken down the doors.

The cheshire frowns come smiling near and stare a vacant stare, and take you in their brazen statue arms.
The hospital won't take in another comatose. The halls are rife with demons as it is.

And we're taken by the one thing we all strive for.
(now it's a hopeless cause)
What irony so dangerously plagues us?
(the sun's burned out at last)
With lost control of muscles, the will to move is wasted.
(the clouds won't hold us anymore)
It's too late.
(and none survive the fall)

It's too late.

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from Emergency Response (demo), released January 1, 2006

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