Happily Destroyed

Hope is the thing with feathers

Until debris takes flight through the blast
Scorched shadows telling time forever
Disrupted silence from the flash

I’m finding out what matters
When the ground begins to shake

Broken homes crackin’ open
Shattered tiles about the place

It’s all been set in motion, once it’s lit

(enjoy the rise, enjoy the rise)

Try to see it rise until it is…

Happily destroyed
Happily destroyed
Buckle up, lay back!
Happily destroyed

Can you hear liberty’s ballad?

Or was it just the singing sand
Giving way to steel being twisted
Like wax paper in child’s hand

A fat cat frowns in disbelief

Skipping town in his jet to Nice
His visionary ship is ready to cast off
Named “ode to simplicity”

It’s all been set in motion, once the fuse is lit

(enjoy the rise, enjoy the rise)

Try to see it rise until it is…

Happily Destroyed
Happily Destroyed

Buckle up, lay back!
Happily Destroyed

Happily Destroyed
Happily Destroyed
Buckle up! Relax!
Happily Destroyed
Take your monkey by the hand

And get happily Destroyed

Devil's Chord

You step out the line of fire

When my anger is triggered by a blink

You lay your hands on me
Turn werewolf into sheep

You make it easy to admit “I wasn’t right”
And during all that fuss you stay by my side

Could be a satellite out of control

Moving at the speed of light towards the sun

But before I get too close,

Before the atmosphere explodes

You save me from the heat that burns all ties

You save me from burning down the sky

Hear the devil’s chord

The cascade to the flatted fifth

You complete heavenly
The devil ’s chord

Before all walls collapse

You tame the Energy

We were walking broken roads

As we evolved into king and queen

I never thought about what you see

I never asked why you chose me

But the moment I felt insecure

You let me know

Cosmic relations resist space, time

And much more.

Could be a satellite out of control

Heading at the speed of light towards the sun

But before I get too close,

And burn without a trace

You save me from the heat that burns our love

You save me when I’m wrestling with myself

Hear the devil’s chord

The cascade to the flatted fifth

You complete heavenly
The devil’s chord

Before all walls collapse

You neutralise the Energy

Queen of Beijing

Faces coded in data

Biometric files of symmetry and grace

The CCTV caught her right at the airport

Detected this fever

On her made up face

Strangers spoke about repatriation

So she took the next flight from Berlin

She erased the posts she made

But couldn’t part with her profile name

She’s the Queen of Beijing

She’s the Queen of Beijing

Strangers came for her brother

They sent images, his head was shaved

Now she can’t reach her parents even on the landline
Cut from all services. Their life – switched on mute

Her Taxi passed a billboard of shame

As she looked for someone she knew

She grabbed the Maos she found in her purse

Left over from her last trip to their universe

She’s the Queen of Beijing

She’s the Queen of Beijing

It’s all right, It’s all right

Once some misfits at Tiananmen turned towards the light

It’s all right, It’s all right

But they didn’t make it for too long, her mother wisely said

It’s all right, It’s all right

It’s gonna be all right

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