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Heaven Underground (2023)

by John McDaid

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Never was completely happy with the version on "Proverbs of Hell," so here's a new take.

Big ol' content warning here for sadness. If that's not something you need right now, completely understand.

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Heaven is falling
The angels lie on sidewalks in the rain.
The serpent calling
Up from the lost world buried deep within our brains.
And the saints have piled up on the streets
Their sacred blood staining the sheets
Their haloes and bones have been sold
Pried loose before the bodies were cold
And the Rainbow disappears with the dawn
And there's nothing left to carry us on
And there is no salvation to be found
Now that Heaven's underground.

Darkness descending
Unending as the chaos runs its course.
We grind on pretending
Nothing left us but remorse.
And the voices that speak in our dreams
Offer comfort as cold as it seems
As faces fade off into noise
And the lost take the Hand that destroys
And there are no stories left to tell
Now that Earth inhabits Hell

Bridge
It's forever
and it's worse than it appears.
This brave new world
is just the sum of all your fears.
And each day
follows mindless on the last.
With no way
out of this demon haunted past...

The Heroes are dead now
Their bodies scattered ashes in the deep.
The Prophet unread now
In the sound and fury of reason's final sleep.
And all along the roads to the Dome
the dead appear to carry us home
and the angels have begun now to rise
their screaming held back in the skies
and the world is just the walls of a cave...
As we look up the sides of the grave...
And there is no salvation to be found
Now that Heaven's underground

Ahh oooh
Ahh oooh
Ahh oooh

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released October 22, 2023

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist, folk/filk singer-songwriter.

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