Show yourself, approach
with caution, friend
Do you ever wonder how it ends?
Keepers of the peace, sanctify
the sigils of defeat
Deified as history repeats
Curse the man who talks such sickly sweet
diatribes as prayers to ares
Sword unsheathed, the dogs unleashed
Underneath the mask let slip,
Cold eyes, gritted teeth
Know yourself, decieved
by mighty words,
Churned into the earth like crawling worms
No chance of relief, masquerade
in mud with aching feet
Crucified as history repeats
Now everybody take up swords, take up war
For is this not who you are?
Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
Now we all fall down
Arise valiant knights!
Arise brave men of empire!
Polish your boots, make sharp your bayonets!
Unfurl the flags of nation!
Be Nike ever at your banner
Be Hades ever watchful of your heathen enemies
For yours is the kingdom,
Yours is the power and the glory
Yours is the country
Infallible!
We are enforcers of the borders
Taking orders, bringing slaughter
Bringing torture, bringing order
Civilizing as we plunder
We are cleansing, we are fire
Tools of a higher power
Unbelievers rot beneath us
We are blessed and they are sinners
Canonized brutality
Severed from reality
Exempt from morality
Step forward, holy warrior
Weaponized insanity
Disregard humanity
Disregard the casualties
March onward, holy warrior
Earth... Fire... Sludge... Blood...
When we are finished
And all has been relinquished
We salt the fields
To purify
Sacred nationality
Maladjusted majesty
Charnelhouse-bound chaplaincy
Break new ground, holy warrior
Accentuated anomie
Antisocial abbacy
Without rationality
Rise up now, holy warrior
A fascistic fantasy
Responding mechanically
Warring everlastingly
step forward holy warrior
An eventuality
Born of human savagery
Erasing all blasphemy
March onward holy warrior
M3, it's calling
The itch, is storming
And we have no deference
For fates already fallen
We will drop dead
Or we shall bluff as conquerors
No shame no dread
Of coming conflagration
We are a world sucked dry
A bitter husk, the sky
Shall watch as god's great eye
As we suffer and lie
One way ahead
Progress demands your sacrifice
Your blood your head
And you know how it ended
about
"They are warming up the old horrors, and all that they say is echoes of echoes."
—Robinson Jeffers.
Electric piano, clavinet, tonewheel organ, combo organ, string synthesizer, subtractive synthesizer, Mellotron (woodwinds), electric bass guitar, drum tracking, audio manipulation, declamation and vox performed by Cai Brown.
Written, recorded and produced by Cai Brown.
"Holy Warrior" contains a brief quotation of Mark Twain's “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5).
"Conscription" very loosely paraphrases elements of "Bydlo" from Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piece "Pictures At An Exhibition".
Cover artwork, "Kingdom of the Future", painted by Frederick Caley Robinson for Maurice Maeterlinck's 1920 publication "The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts." Layout and editing by Cai Brown.
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released February 11, 2023
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