Mystery School, from the album “Light Mind Rising” by the Mighty Ur
(My lyrics and vocals)
Mystery School, from the album “Light Mind Rising” by the Mighty Ur
(My lyrics and vocals)
It’s the things that weigh us down/
The petty possessions we pick up along the way/
The things we should never pick up along the way/
But, hey, that’s okay/
These things complete us right
At least according to the sons and daughters of the sons and daughters of Edward Bernais
Of course, not everyone can be a nomad
Or a wandering minstrel
Or a holy hermit sat within the city walls
We did however used to believe the mendicant was closer to god
Christ-like in his raggedy rags
And yet condemned to tread the frozen soil for the duration
We believed in the Holy Idiot, devoid of ego and vanity
Condemned to exist in a world of knaves and scoundrels
Despite his lamb-like purity
We cannot change the world by our actions or inactions
But we can perhaps work toward the perfection of ourselves
For perhaps the life lived perfectly is circular after all
It’s not the degradation of the material form
But the perfection of the immaterial self, the true self
Perhaps a return to grace is a return to our selves
Shedding clothes along the path of life we eventually return to the source, naked
Best then to know for sure who exactly we are when all is stripped away
So shall we take the path that meanders
Over the aching bridge of Time?
Or shall we simply join the herd
And graze all our life-long days
In pastures enclosed and ever-narrowing?
Should we surrender our dreams
And surrender our souls
And settle for a life that is guided
By an distant brutal hand,
A hand
That assumes the role of God (?)
No.
Christ no.
-Listen.
Escape is but in truth return
The narrow confines of the cell-like womb
Cannot
Dictate
The days to follow
See –
Death is not an end
Just as birth is not beginning
Just as Time is not a line
Upon a draughtsman’s board.
To transcend this tyranny of Time
Then first my friend, I think we must awaken.
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Back now
Back among all these fussy and fussed-over little suburban lives
A familiar childhood street with everybody foxily boxed-in
Hidden behind post-war porches or masked by privet hedges
All knee-deep in happy myopia
Everybody ordered and happy to belong
Along the street or within the quiet cul-de-sacs with Scottish names
All these pebble-dash frontages and tarmac driveways
A sample smattering of ordered lives afforded tiny luxuries
Time here slows to a manageable crawl
But they seem happy here, within this oasis, living in hope of tender mercies
Then a sudden screams shatters the tranquillity
The piercing cry of a suburban-casualty
That woman you forgot existed in these intervening years
The one whose eyes seemed always close to tears
Now clung to the kitchen counter as men with expressions of grim determination prize her fingers off one by one
I remember now, how
She tried too hard to cling to her daughters, and in doing so she lost her grip on everything
Her banshee screams suddenly shatter this small oasis
And a dozen curtains twitch to witness the broken mother being firmly escorted into the back of a windowless van …
“She tried to grab her husband’s hand” the elderly neighbours will later relate, breathlessly
Wordlessly, ruthlessly they removed her from this world of privet hedges and arched porchways
Away from this tiny oasis to the big house upon the hill
That dreaded place where all the broken mothers go
What does it say about our sick and skewered society/
And all its bent-out-of-shape priorities/
When we spray the field with pesticides/ and
We spray the fields with insecticides
And in the doing so, we render all the precious bees demented?
Eh? – what follows, then?
– What-follows-then –
When we have decapitated the heads of all the great men
And capped off all the mountains
And defaced the face of Mother Earth with depleted-uranium
-What could possibly follow those monumental acts?
What’s more –
What do we do for an encore
After we have torn great gaping holes in our finely woven
And intricately patterned tapestries?
And what terrible toll will this maddened drive for profit
Exact upon the mind of man
Exact upon the heart of man
And upon the soul of man
When the honey bee
In its maddened and maddening confusion
Finally forgets its sacred dance
The former Secretary of State applauds the former Rothschild banker
But let’s be plain: wars assured for evermore is what she really hankers for.
No wonder she concurs with Macron’s pleas for international cooperation
I mean it doesn’t take a seer to decode this code for ‘foreign intervention’
Thank you Emanuel, she purrs, this genocidal queen
Whose own dreams are nightly shattered by the screams
of 50 thousands screaming weens.
Oh darkest Albright, still you breathe our precious earthbound air
But you are soon to meet your maker in his dingy airless lair
He has a ledger filled with all the blasted lives you breezily enabled
Not to mention the thousands more via endless war you gleefully disabled
With every name he cracks a fiery lash, across your bent and aged back
And with every attrocity screamed aloud as a declaration and decree
The temperature within the room is mercilessly increased
Until the flames are doused by gushing blood that press your face against the ceiling
Where your fearful shouts are all drowned out by the cacophony of screaming.
You are taunted, mocked around the clock by He, you served as emissary
He mocks and chides your lack of light, All-Bright, former whore-hound secretary
All those smoking holes and blasted souls
Did you never think there was a toll
The hateful fate of all those huddled weens…
So was it worth the price, dear Madeleine?
(60 Minutes Correspondent Leslie Stahl (to Albright), “We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And — and, you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright, “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”)
America,
The greatest minds of your generation
Were blunted by greed, chemical coshes & rampant consumerism/
-Bright lights carefully dimmed out within dark carriages/ never to be seen again
Replaced by noodle-heads with rampant egos/
Blood-soaked salesmen with meagre brains
Sowing the seeds of their own destruction
Child-like and vain:
Speaking to their own once-mythic greatness.
Speaking from a storm-drain
Lost America
The time of the crowned and conquering child is coming to an end my friend
Just as your time in the lethal sandpit is spent
So relinquish now your magnifying-glass you teenage psychopath
For you cannot sit setting fire to the ants in there forever
America
Fever-stricken, sickened America/ the fourteenth amendment of your constitution bestows the Rights of the individual upon your corporations
So is it any wonder that the corporations trample you underfoot/ with swift impunity?
Monoliths and Cinema-screens –
Snake oil served in jumbo-cups to useless eaters
I’m telling you America, your super-sized tourist hoards will soon be barred from boarding planes abroad
And your slick-salesmen will merrily put you to the sword for the simple fun of it.
For the expediency of it
See joy-stick destruction is like the sweet blood of virgins to these Bathory-bathing-hounds – so look around –
Your communities have all been auctioned off by corporate thugs in tailored-suits
Coz they don’t need hijacked planes no more to take down the prime real-estate
– It just takes cold reptilian calculation in place of hate
So why America
Why?
Why do the ranks of huddled masses grow more wretched and swell with every single passing day?
Let me spare your blushes and break it down for you….
The corporate entity does not care for you
It does not even consider you
For aint you viewed the rushes
Ticker-tape updates in tent-city is bull-shit for the bulrushes
And this gravy-train only goes one way
So if you are truly chosen as you so often say, then you had better pray
you had better pray America
For these psychopaths have no loyalty to your land-mass – thus once your money-supply, food, water, and gas has become sufficiently depleted – they shall move on with barely a backwards glance
The crescent moon choke-hold and the petro-dollar stranglehold is ever-weakening
So what exactly is there left stop it crumbling?
Can you not hear the approaching juggernaut a-rumbling?
Your simpering snowflakes tried to warn you of a coming mighty avalanche
buy many left among you think you still have a semblance of a chance
Dance
Dance America
Dance to the tune of the latest incarnation of robber-baron-in-chief
and cheer
Cheer as the king of cheats robotically bleats: America first! America first!
And as the Jekyll island jackals suck the remaining marrow from your bones
Under cover of night the Prez quietly boards his corporate jet alone
Zap! Wham! And Holy Cow!
Look at the sandpits burn like oil-slicks now!
God all-bloody-mighty! –The sheer futility of trying to teach these snot-nosed kids a lesson in history!
Let me tell you about the miserable nineteen-seventies
You lot, you know nothing about the Winter of Discontent! I say.
Bolshie lazy British Leyland workers
Striking for the right to sleep in the back of the Ford Cortina’s they were too lazy to even polish
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