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A Poet​’​s Death

from Cosmic Sunrise EP (Live - Acoustic) by Tommy Von

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Pages are burning, twisting and turning
Let’s undo the learning, Kill, Kill, Kill
Pages are burning, twisting and turning
Let’s undo the learning, Kill, Kill, Kill
And burning deep’s this never ending rage
A candle snuffed that prophesied our age
A poet has died
We sat upon his courage and we spat upon his strength
We re-wrote all his visions and garbled all his speech
So harshly does this gentleman go underneath the yoke
Suffering disfigurements for verses that he spoke
And in truth, remorse is afterthought
Robbed the chance to turn another page
Our ignorance and guilt cannot assuage
That poets must die
We’ll give a crook a bank account and sell a thief a gun
And aid a budding eloquence by cutting out it’s tongue
And if a young elaborator begins to think out loud
We’ll label him a heretic and throw him to the crowd
It was truth that all the people fought
Screaming loud to smother out the sage
From deathly fear of markings on a page
A poet must die
Robbed the chance to turn another page
Our ignorance and guilt cannot assuage
That poets must die

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from Cosmic Sunrise EP (Live - Acoustic), released March 26, 2015

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Tommy Von Santa Monica, California

Tommy Von is a BMI Songwriter and founding member of MYST (90s O.C. California Psychedelic Rock band)

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