“Scene from a Starship on Fire” (Working title only)
\n(C) 2009-2011 Dara Korra’ti\/CRIME and the Forces of Evil
(There are bits I wrote in 2009, but didn’t finish; this is how I write.)
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\nFrom the forthcoming album, Din of Thieves<\/i><\/p>\n
intro rhythmic, like a siren, or alarm<\/i><\/p>\n
What the hell?
\nWhat the hell are you doing?
\nWhere the hell have you been?
\nHave you seen this disaster?
\nI don’t know where to begin<\/p>\n
There’s a moment when I look at you and see the world ending
\nThere’s a moment when I look at you and hope that you choke
\nThere’s a moment when I think of you and run like the devil
\nThere’s a moment when I look at you and simply cannot joke<\/i><\/p>\n
What the hell?
\nWhat the hell are you doing?
\nWhat the hell does that mean?
\nDon’t you know what you’ve started?
\nAre you a part of this scene?<\/p>\n
In the second that you turned around I knew it was over
\nIn the second that you turned around I knew you were gone
\nIn the second that you thought of it I blanched at the insight
\nIn the second that you shifted weight the weapons were drawn<\/i><\/p>\n
What the hell?
\nWhat the hell are you doing?
\nWhat’s got into your brain?
\nHow could you do this on purpose?
\nAre you completely insane?<\/p>\n
In the smallest crack of madness lurks a simple unwinding
\nIn the smallest crack of crazy I see light in your eyes
\nIn the smallest slip of costume there’s a clarity moment
\nIn the smallest careless instant I see through your disguise<\/i><\/p>\n
What the hell?
\nWhat the fuck were you hiding?
\nJust what have you become?
\nYou know full well where this takes you?
\nYou aren’t the first to succumb<\/p>\n
Watching you change as though turned on a nickel the
\nMoulding takes shape as you’re spun on the stone
\nIs there even a thought that you’ll naught but betray me
\nDo you need, do you want, will you reap what you’ve sown?
\nSpinning so slowly as your angles assuage you
\nThe steel and the sharpness stand in by your side
\nThe cast of your shadows changes slowly to ember
\nBut this time I’m ready; I know now that you lied<\/i><\/p>\n
What the hell?
\nWhat the hell were you making?
\nWhy have you gone for your knife?
\nDon’t you know I don’t love you?
\nBut you do not own my life
\nWhat the hell?
\nWhat the fuck were you thinking?
\nWe made a pretty good team
\nYou made an awful decision
\nOnly now
\ndo I see it’s part of the scheme
\nWhat the hell?<\/p>\n
Lifeboats, everyone;
\nAbandon ship.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been a difficult week. I don’t talk about those, much, because that’s how you lose followers, but, well. There are a bunch of reasons, but talking about that has done me far more harm than good in the recent past, so there you aren’t. I had a song recorded that I wanted to release [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}