The test pilot with goggle eyes
Flew the borders of our lives
The food hoarder with a crooked back
Protects the altar of our lies
On that altar the golden fleece
That’s all that’s left of extinct beast
The spy networks ring of gold
Is the holy grail of most men’s soul
The authors lips are spoken with
In sterile worlds in which to live
When general thumper pounds the desk
The peacemakers have no rest
The cold war ended but it just got colder
The fear and mistrust just got older
The tank commander rides the border
Trying to contain the social order
Great eyes in the sky focus down
At foreign leaders on the ground
People now work over time
To pay the cleaners to remove the slime
The bankers crawl through garden plots
They eat the money and leave the rot
Politicians kiss their hands
As culture and economy turn to sand
The cold wars ended we are told
But since, we feel even more cold
Scientific Nazi research
Bolstered war plans across the earth
Oil supplies are tainted red
From all the blood soaked to its bed
Children of social conflict scream
As chemical weapons devour their dreams
The winds of war blow from every side
The TV melts from genocide
The happiest people are the insane
The majority live in pain
The fear of death haunts young and old
Their freedoms rat gnawled rights are sold
The cold war ended so we’re told
But why does everything feel so cold
There is a dream to share our time
To help others, it all seems fine
But if the axles are not greased
The onward motion will just cease
And all the people in the van
Will stretch out their lily-white hands
And as they twist and turn and fall
And crash their free ride into a wall
The fires of youth sprang from the earth
An attempt at change began to work
But soon became a commodity
To by and sell what was almost free
To protect itself from loss of power
Plans were made in the darkest hour
To send in the mounted police
To break and tar and end the peace
At every exit stood the dogs
The trained beasts of Gog of Magog
As men and women tempers broke
And social protest just got choked
The cold war ended who said so
The cold war ended that’s a joke
It hasn’t ended it just changed sides
And everything has turned to ice
The working class are on their own
Their way of life, now turned to stone
As their insurance slowly erodes
A quiet breeze begins to blow
Soon their structures will start to feel
The truth about yet another new deal
As modern man now grabs his loot
Neanderthals will feel the boot
As governments use their force to subdue
All that was good, all that was new
They pick the flesh from people’s bones
And even evict the poor from their homes
And the cold war ended so long ago
But the land is covered in a fool of snow
The cold war was won, the wall came down
But an ice age has come to town
2013
A rambling maybe pessimistic portrait of post-cold war days
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