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Obscure Complaint

from Lamentations by Half Pagan

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Dr. Homan claims that playing this chord progression causes his hand to claw up of its own accord. Perhaps that's appropriate. This is a song about determinism and “free will.” See those quotation marks there? Rock on!

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OBSCURE COMPLAINT

O Earth, unchain yourself
And tell the Sun farewell
For this circle-walking Hell
Is far too bright and certain

Throw off all your forests
And your oceans, shake them off
Like prison clothes, and doff
Your polar cap of glaciers

And when you’re bald and naked
And walking all alone
Take each moment for your own
And try to fashion something

And if in your new freedom
Your works are half as lovely
As these that you’ve made dumbly
As a slave of all creation

Then I will reach down in me
Where my pumping organs float
And pull them out my throat
And turn my skin-side inward

But till then I’ll remain
A jailed jail inside a jailer
And cunningly I’ll tailor
My complaints to be obscure

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from Lamentations, released March 20, 2018
Music and lyrics by Bart Everson and Michael Homan

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We're a rock band based in Bulbancha. You might call it New Orleans. Sometimes we do songs about cemetery picnics or the mythology of ancient Babylon. We're Half Pagan.

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