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The Death of Subject A

from Emergency Response (demo) by Pete Davis

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We're breaching the old routine, formations falter and squander our ravines of all their water.
It's not such a bad idea to set up shelter.
The sky is burning like it's gonna fall tonight and we're beneath it.
The stars that have always lit up the night aren't so beautiful up close when you can see it burning right.
And to the touch it burns severely, but far away it keeps you warm, like the foster arms upon your joints I've forced.
And people only battle for the sake of being warriors, but I could sew white flags to beat the band.
So logically we understand, through impulses and clapping hands, we spar and spar and never seem to realize we're going nowhere.

Going inside-out, and reversing again. It's structural. Almost impossible to hold it up this long, and down it comes. Something must be off.
There's an intricacy involved with every motion.
We know it's painfully evolved with silent protest. But I can't fully believe it until we've proven something right or wrong, it doesn't make a difference.
First trials show rejection by subject B: vital signs are fine.
Second trials show rejection led to the death of subject A.
It's everything we hoped to prove, and all the things we feared were true, and everything we'd never know we ever could find out.
Reasoning has failed us now, the barricades
must be torn down, and all the news we've just produced, we'll give it to the people all at once.
It's their right to know, and everything is fine. Everyone is happy now.
We turned it inside out and kept it right, and learned from the mistakes we've always made.

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

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