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Everyone Is Happy

from Emergency Response (demo) by Pete Davis

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The comforting thing about nightmares is that you know it's all over when you wake up. Suddenly your eyes get wide, and you can't tell where it ends and life begins.
Long you strain to take in a deep breath, straining for a full night's sleep.
Sister we have witnessed the crime of the century. The funeral march is in progress, and it goes for miles, and miles have we yet before we sleep. A vigil led by candlelight, and a crowd lain in procession. Hallelujah, amen.
People are filling the streets, to mourn all the souls at their feet, begging for mercy when it's all beyond our control. Does anyone know what it means when the sun plunges into the sea, burnt out in the evening sky? Perhaps it was set too high where it could never stay.
And everyone laid eyes, and laid their weary heads lined up on the shore. Burning to the core, and the water warmed. But soon enough, in silence, it boiled no more.
Let us bow our heads and say a silent prayer. Let us all join hands and sing a requiem.
The song plays out ad nauseam. The ones we loved have all gone. Every home is empty now. Every soul is empty now. We've moved on and passed on. (we've passed on).
A hundred calls were made last night to a hundred desperate people, and still we had nothing to say, but had to stay.
Forever we sit in silence praying to God that someone will say something to make it all right, and bring it all back to the way that it was, the way it used to be before this disease, onslaught in the night, unforeseen attack, we fall to our knees.
As clouds cover the sky, the rain comes flooding in. The sun has since burnt out. We fall helplessly asleep.
Under your eyelids, your eyes race around, and you cannot feel anything at all. The discomforting thing about certain death is that everyone is happy now. Your eyes turn red, your face goes white, and smile wide. You realize that all the times you've painted blame and guiltless claims should not have been pointed away.
It was you that caused all your pain. When blood is spilled it leaves a stain.
Look at me, I am a monster (how much more can we destroy). Beyond repent, beyond a savior (in the river we will drown). Keep your head above the water (bring the fire bring the flood), so we can't see eye to eye (the good lord will save us).
Considering the time it took for everything we have to fall apart, distantly we come to see that we rid ourselves of something so special. Believe me when I say I need you so much more than I could ever handle. Be at once what we adore, a demon flight of angels.
Hold on tight as I go under. Press your head against my heart. You must stay with me forever, so that you know when it's over, I'm really gone.

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

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