Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Redemption

Turned and tossed in this widening flight

And I can’t find my bearings

The voice that called me once is lost

And the silence left is tearing at me

Everything’s starting to fall apart

The center cannot hold

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon us

And innocence is drowning

All around the best of men are lacking in conviction

While the wicked and the worst are full of passion and intent

All we have is falling apart

The center cannot hold

The blood-dimmed tide has covered us

And the innocent are drowning

Surely there’s some revelation coming close at hand — a second coming

I can barely mouth the words before the images assault me

Somewhere in the desert, a monstrous affront turns its pitiless gaze to me

Its blinding stare is like the sun

I turn my eyes and fight to shake it but it’s frozen in my mind

The darkness drops again, but now I know

Twenty centuries of sleep have been shaken to a nightmare

What rough beast, its hour come ‘round at last

Slouches towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born?

All we have has fallen apart

The center could not hold

The blood-dimmed tide was loosed

And the innocent have drowned