De Civitate Dei

from War From Your Living Room by Da Comrade!

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Written in Jan/Feb of 08.
Recorded @ Chernobyl & Space Camp in August/September of 09.

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Snow starts to fall down my wall, the seasons have changed and with them I've grown ever strange. The pulling of strings, levers fall in my brain. I feel the phantom hand that is wrenching new life from a dream.

They say if you're afraid to die, put your stock in a slice of the sky. I dwell on it, I think and fall more out of sync with this life.

But I tell ya, there is no fear to die. A scattering of atoms, one torn seam of that ragged dress, one that your mother kept. There is a shadow to every skyline, the blanketed dead tuned into the surreal life.

Well there may be a cause but to see is to abnegate thought. All that we've lost, never truly gone. All is reclaimed through the eclipse of time.

The gates will open, we are the chosen ones. When it's all over, could it only have ended with one word? Golden sheath surrounds me and it's comforting to me, in a way. She knows everything I'm going to say.

Do away with these words, their very concepts absurd. I think therefore, I.

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from War From Your Living Room, track released December 5, 2009
Songs written by Fletcher VanVliet.
Produced by Barrett Lindgren & Da Comrade!

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Da Comrade! was something heavy, something weird from West Philadelphia. Manic/epic songs rife with bleating saxophone leads, grandiose strings and bizarre tongues.

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