Firewall

Album: The People's Key (2011)
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  • If there is no such thing as time, you're already there,
    And you're controlling this cycle
    You say, "Man, look what we found here, Einstein,"
    Or whoever you're talking to, Tesla - whoever you're talking to
    Problems of the future can be solved by mankind because you create them
    And you have to believe in the future, it's what we have to do
    We progress, we always progress - we try to
    So the Sumerian tablets, they say the same thing like Genesis said
    That there were chariots of fire that came into the sky
    And these beings got out of them, and they walked like a man
    But they had reptilian features
    They had snake-like eyes, a tail, and, uh, scales, right?
    And they were - they were here, and they made slaves out of the people
    And where they landed in is what the Bible calls the Garden of Eden
    They were trying to inbreed with the people here
    The women would die, the babies would abort
    But after two thousand years they started taking
    The babies started being born and living
    And they had tails, they had a few reptilian features
    They could phase shift from one dimension to another dimension
    And the people who know say it's from the fourth dimension - the next dimension
    Space is expanding, there are spirits coming from the center, right?
    We're going counterclockwise
    There's supposed to be eight other universes going counterclockwise
    And that's called Superuniverse, you know?
    And love's always been the message
    It's just - circumstances happen, right?
    People freak out, just flat flip out, you know?
    Well, that's where Hitler came from, Hitler came from that way
    He was an outspoken, charismatic yeller
    And, and all these people said
    "Hey, we'll use this guy, hey, look at all these people listening to this guy"
    You know what I mean? And so that's just what the trip's like, that
    You know? It still exists, and their bloodline goes back - back into Sumerian times
    You know, they didn't call it reptilian, they didn't call it that
    But they did, because they called him Satan, they called him the Devil
    And it's the same damn trip
    It's a negative force, coming in on a positive force
    Because it's a third dimension, right?
    And for it to solidify or to crystallize, it has to have both elements, right?
    And you have to keep it in balance, or it will, it will
    One of them will destroy the other

    I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul
    The classicist, the posturing avant-garde
    I bought a grey macaw, named him Jules Verne
    He'll probably outlive me, he's a bright bird
    Keeps me company, I teach him new words

    I saw a hologram at the theme park
    She looked as real as me through the white fog
    Then she melted down to her ankles
    Turned into a million-watt candle
    If I knew where she went, I would follow

    Walking through the land of tomorrow
    Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos
    In the sunshine, try to act normal
    My veins are full of flat cherry cola
    Slept on the bench by the rollercoaster

    Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike
    Lion of Judah, painted on the side

    I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades
    Life's a wash, a pastoral school play
    China shops and cold ivory towers
    I and I, make toasts to the Caesars
    Forcing down the dregs of Decembers

    Madeline, she spins in a slow bang
    All through the house, the strong smell of burnt sage
    Let's make it clean and run out the spirits
    I know a diving bell when I hear it
    We're going down now under the surface

    Light to dark can shift in an instant
    Feeling close but keeping my distance
    On all fours she's just so insistent
    Fills my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists
    Bust through the firewall into heaven

    And then I'm standing in that blinding light
    Crooked crosses falling from the sky

    Seen, yeah, seen by I and I
    Seen, yeah, seen by I and I
    Seen, yeah, seen by I and I
    Seen, yeah, seen by I and I Writer/s: Conor M Oberst
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Ekristheh from Halath, United StatesThe ideas presented by Denny Brewer on this track were not made up by him. Many people believe that a "Serpent Race" once visited here from another planet, and perhaps still does. Some UFO believers and conspiracy writers such as David Icke identify these snake people with the "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6 who interbred with human women to have children, the Nephilim. They were said to have taught humanity basic arts and sciences. A lot of ancient mythologies include some version of this idea. The idea that the alien visitors looked reptilian probably comes from India, but traditions about reptilian-looking gods or people appear in mythologies around the world.
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