We Are Animals

from The Erebus and the Terror by Jonestown

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One last setting sun, one last turn of the carousel,
One more chance to prove causality wrong.
The road to hell was paved with good intentions,
Dystopias of our own invention.

Open up the archives of pain, repeat the same mistakes that have been made.
Hammer in the screws and screw in the nails, blood alone oils the wheels.

A species congregated on the second throne.
The nature of power, the warning, Cicero.
Prime time engineers of our own extinction,
Child like we give our undivided attention.

One more setting sun, one more grain in the hourglass.
One more chance to prove Nietzsche wrong.
The road to hell paved by the ghosts of Europe,
Utopias of the liberal imagination.

Mystery! Babylon the great, Mother of all prostitutes, abominations of the Earth!
She lay before the continents, the woman with seven heads.
She presented herself to man and man revealed his nature.

We animals, dreamt of being men. Abandon all hope, embrace the sensation.
We animals, who dreamt of being men…

Autonomy, bleeds from our veins, Our future, slips through our fingers,
We animals, who dreamt of being men, We men, who were animals.

The Son goes down, the argument is won.
We were always doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Experience, devoid and derelict.
We animals, who dreamt of being men.
Mystery! Babylon our Queen of Queens!

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from The Erebus and the Terror, released July 27, 2014
All music and lyrics written by Jonestown
Performed by Jonestown
Mixed and Mastered by Craig Radford

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Jonestown Brighton, UK

We are Jonestown, an exercise in stupidity and the acquisition of dreams sold to us by engaging ourselves in too much TV at an early age. Convinced that we're talented or special, when the painful truth is, we are not special. In the realisation that we are not special we came to find we were angry. Just like us our music is not special but we can assure you it's angry and honest ... more

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