Un Adieu A La Folie

I renounce you - and your love

Now worthless since cold

Like the secret purpose who made me serve

Father, you who - want me to unfold

In some other world

You - who always change your name

And call to arms in some iron game

You who refuse to step aside

As we toast - the blushing bride

I despise you - brother, you who wished to kill

All those dressed in rags

Look who's hiding now so still

Behind red flags - It's you 

who fought to throw the blacks

Off our sands and back

Into the sea - no, it ain't me - I protest you - I detest you

I renounce you - and the beasts Of prey you admire

And I defy you and all traitors alike

And I hereby betray you who always

Crack up under fire

And make this flame breathe stone

I deny you - mother, you who won't seek

The memory within - Yet who swore not to rise by sin

Now there's blood dripping from your teeth

Unto my skin beneath, into this hand of mine

You who always betray time

With false urgencies



You - abandoned by your gods and laws

And by your church with its borrowed myths

Now you try to hang on to this - And beg for more

In vain - it won't feel the same

You - so talented - so gifted 

Yet you see it as a curse or worse

As a sentence that - cannot be lifted

I reject you - for I have failed you

My teachers who somehow

Taught me to listen and to shout

Teachers, I need you more than anyone

More than ever now

I beg you - not to judge me