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Ben
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since 2004-01-17
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0 posted 2004-01-20 02:51 AM



Children stagger blindly over scorched sand
Panting the corrosion of a sanctioned wasteland
Smouldering ashes of a place once entitled home
Now sit in the death of a constricting dome
Lifeless flesh dripping from a brittle bone
As the masses gasp life in a blood swamped battle zone

The foaming mouth of the masticating devil
Disillusioned in the eclipse of the martyrdom rebel
The staggering steps of crimson stained feet
On the surface of deaths entreat
Clinging to bitter visions of tasteless dreams
In the tossed and sliced scenes  

The ghosts be justified
In a land ganda dyed
For breathing on soil
That be rich in oil
They justify
Those who die
By breathing on devil soil
That be rich in oil

The decaying hand lies on the shoulder of life
As the misty atmosphere of corrosion lays rife
Hear the echo of a mother screaming
Drowning in the soils own bleeding
Puppets claiming a patriotic right to grace
As shots of blood shower over a child’s face

The puppet infected transmission
Claims freedom mission
But not for the ghosts of Kurdistan
The scatted particles of human contraband
The smouldering Assyro-Chaldean villages
The dogmatist privileges
The slaughter house of Abu Greb prison
The headless raped women
Or the oppressed Turkmen
But a fuliginous power spillage
As dark fluid is set on a west bound voyage

The ghosts be justified
In a land ganda dyed
For breathing on soil
That be rich in oil
They justify
Those who die
By breathing on devil soil
That be rich in oil


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passing shadows
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1 posted 2004-01-20 03:03 AM


what a song! I could hear the music!
poetically ghetto
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since 2004-01-20
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2 posted 2004-01-20 05:28 AM


very deep my friend
very deep indeed
will be looking for more

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