Eulogy for a Martyred Friend

by Clayborne

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Margaret Killjoy this is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded. post hardcore about dead anarchists from sci fi yes please

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lyrics

we weathered storms
laughing and dusty
tried to build ourselves
a beautiful home

i thought they'd let us be
she knew it was a fight to become
she knew breath's purpose
she knew that i would fight in the end

they don't know you like i did
they don't know you like i did

they hold your father's name
on their wagging tongues
give you titles you would have shunned
leader, soldier, martyr, saint

your cremation
completes their hagiography
render you in stained glass
bogdanov, not arkady

they don't know you like i did
they don't know you like i did
and they never will

they don't know you like i did
they don't know you like i did
and they never will

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you were a crutch
a supportive companion
a dependable source of strength
in a world that names us weak

a life structured
upon a sudden absence
i reeled, arms striking wildly out
desperate for something to grasp

i am learning
to hold myself
steady, soft, and still
as everything spills over

the processions have ended
now they speak of monuments
i seethe
soft and still

who am i to decide
where you began and ended?
(possession unfounded)
who am i to sit in righteous judgement
(who am i? who am i?)
(bottling your legacy)
of those courageous souls
precarious, so precarious
(quiet and alone)
of those empathic dreamers
anarchists, friends, comrades, accomplices
who am i? who am i?

emboldened by your magnanimity
i am learning relinquishment

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released October 7, 2017
all words and sounds by clayborne
except ending poem, "dirge without music" by edna st. vincent millay, read by joan crawford

recorded & mixed by ben h.

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Post-hardcore based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy from four settlers living in Tio'tia:ke, Kanien'kehá:ka territory

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