I Recognize You

You once shared a cradle with me
 Now you're wearing riot gear
 You claimed angel hood and fury
 Now your lungs are breathing fear
 You were the masthead of the ship
 Now you play the mutineer
 But I recognize you
 Yes I recognize you
 You were butterflies in legion
 Now your smoke over the plains
 You were prides of turbid lions
 Now you're proud of being tame
 You walked the hallway of the gods
 Now you stumble through remains
 But I recognize you
 Still I recognize you
 I recognize
 Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
 I recognize
 I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
 With my own two eyes
 I can recognize anything at all
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 You were lighter than a ghost train
 Now you're rusted on the tracks
 You were the spirit of the age
 Now you're mislabelled in the stacks
 You once taunted executioners
 Now you're sharpening the axe
 But I recognize you
 Yes I recognize you
 And I saw the twentieth century
 Through nuclear family eyes
 Now I'm rising from the radiation
 Tried and traumatized
 But I'm hoping as you crush me
 For second, you get wise
 And you recognize me
 Yeah, you recognize
 I recognize
 Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
 I recognize
 I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
 With my own two eyes
 I can recognize anything at all
 I recognize
 Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
 I recognize
 I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
 With my own two eyes
 I can recognize anything at all
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 You know my whispering
 I know you're listening
 And that you recognize yourself
 In all our distancing
 What we are witnessing
 Is a kind of conditioning
 Is all the dissonance
 From all the songs we wished to sing