Down with the Shah

from The Never-Ending Struggle by Trading Atoms

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lyrics

Lost in pages
I’m a sabre
Purpose in my hands
In a dreamscape
Steeped in heathens
Flaming stone in the sky

Come my brothers, the puppet is blowing west
Time to cut the strings
In the desert the tiger waits for us
Down with the Shah

On a dead wind
In a clay house
I prostrate myself
Cultivating
Holy keratin
Don’t you trust this face?

Come my brothers, the puppet is blowing west
Time to cut the strings
In the desert the tiger waits for us
Down with the Shah

I can see that your treatment has been most revealing
Barring certain symptoms, it’s doing you hell
Eating your dreams with your semen and your beliefs
Where’s your God now?
I can see that your sutures will be coming out soon
You know that it suits you, that collagen brand
Spreading disease for the good of society

Broken teeth and a smile spreads in me
Perfect poetry
In the desert revival waits for us
Down with the Shah

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from The Never-Ending Struggle, track released April 11, 2013
Audio samples taken from Persepolis (2007), written by Marjane Satrapi, screenplay and directing by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics

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