Garrett Russell - Wasteland (Vechnost) lyrics

We "won the War"[I]; We made a temple to thieves Enshrining the great criminal Who promised heaven without God[ii] If we had sight to seem To see the seven seas Could cease to be or freeze in me We'd shake this sudden sundering And subsequently cross the strait[iii] And traverse the wastes[iv] We'll beat our rifles to shovels[v] And dig a proper grave for our sons Who saw the end Of God[vi]: Wasteland The flag will fall with the wall we built[vii]: Wasteland Apostate to the State, Witness to the Dead[viii]: For you know only a heap of broken Image[ix] And when you rid this earth of God We shall shelter Him underground[x] Fall into the coldest wastes of humanity Darkening circles fed by deepening graves "d**h solves all problems[xi]," Your heart is a statistic[xii] No mother, no resistance But still she precludes the grave They saw the end of God: Wasteland The flag will fall with the walls we built: Wasteland [i] The Soviet Union "won" WWII on the Allied side of the conflict but suffered far more causalities than any other nation involved -- an estimated 10,000,000 soldiers and 10,000,000 civilians [ii] Joseph Stalin defied the spirit of Marxism-Leninism by taking on a persona of god-like qualities -- promising prosperity to his followers while exiling, executing, and starving large portions of his country [iii] Bering Strait [iv] Siberia [v] Isaiah 2:4 [vi] The USSR's attempt to rid the nation of God [vii] Prophecy of the events of November 9, 1989 [viii] The sacred witness, Lady Iulia de Beausobre [ix] T.S Eliot, The Waste Land [x] Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov [xi] Joseph Stalin [xii] "The d**h of one man is a tragedy, the d**h of one million is a statistic." -- Joseph Stalin