The Council of Bernays

from Sixty Year Dream by The Penny Dreadfuls

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he knows where you're going he knows where you've been
he knows more about you than you and your friends
and why you do the things you do
edward knows what makes you blue!

look down on us tonight
free us from our own device
distract us with the shiny things
the more to learn the more to gain
this mortal game's impossible if you refuse to play
cut your tie, learn to strive and let's be on our way

so you think that we all are deranged here?
well i've been studying your fear
and you won't like what i've found

so you've got the knack and the aim to please
but do you have the slogan to bring them to their knees?
you've but one dimension of this task
this task at hand
why can't you understand?

i'm as sure as an investment in the sun
that your face was never meant to be so beautiful
anu took his time with you when he chewed you in his mouth
molded by the tongues of gods
they hesitated spitting out

we are under the knife
nearing the needle's eye
these cravings of fancy
enduring this misery

on a stroll through the daisies you are in amazement by far the intellectual's naive property
to think that you are free!
this notion tickles me
this council has now arrived at your insanity
now leave!

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from Sixty Year Dream, released June 4, 2011

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