Lyrics

Follow me
through the pine, marsh, and weeds
wear your heart on your sleeve
to the cypress tree

with shovels armed
shin deep in the stagnate pond
fractured light through swaying palms
we're planting our alms

standing by the killing of beauty

underneath
the strobing orange glow of street-
lights at seventy one
miles per hour

speeding through
the once was and coming soons
the wasted land of human zoos
the numbing repeat

standing by the killing of beauty

beyond obscenities and excuses
shortsighted gains and acceptable losses
louder, bigger, faster, louder, bigger, faster, louder

this priceless time
for moonlight through the shadow pines
before profit comes with axes to grind
while I'm

standing by the killing of beauty
the last long look before goodbye