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The Blood Of Those Forgotten Gods

from Rejecting Soma by Steve Mcauliffe & The Mighty Ur

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Greek myth meets Blakean imagery. Ichor was said to be the magical blood that ran through the veins of the ancient gods. As the awakening of the people takes hold the people become the gods themselves, and are thus infused with Ichor. Albion is rebirthed & common land reclaimed. Alongside our refound paradise, a spirit of blissful anarchy is also reborn, in the form of a raucous tavern (the Bucket of Blood reborn)

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HE BLOOD OF THOSE FORGOTTEN GODS
You may think yourself the architect of your own ruination
Yet you are not the accumulation
Of all those nervous ticks and party tricks
That have become
Over time
Your collective identifier
You are neither the performing pup
Nor the rabbit frozen in the headlights of an onrushing truck
Neither are you the taught-by-rote stoat thrown into mute deference
When in the presence of someone whose ascent
Was guaranteed at point of birth

You are not the child admonished
And punished for a failure to raise your hand in class
But maybe
Maybe what you are, in actual fact, is the accumulation of all your tiny acts of kindness
The smile that lifts the day of one who is more inclined toward the darkness;
They whose tiny acts of bravery defy their own shattered histories
For they are not their histories
Just as you are not your history - just as you are not a screen for others to project their dreams upon
So give up your tinsel-sticks and your coloured crayons
Tear down the paper cut-outs and switch off the magic lanterns
And stop and think -
Think about how far you’ve come and all that you have created
For do you still cower in the presence of Power
Like a chastised child?
Or a whipped dog
Do you resemble the correspondent scraping and fawning outside the royal awning?
Or do you look beyond your imposed prejudice and off-off-shelf world-view?
Do you?
And can you
Can you, from time to time narrow your eyes, and switch to see beyond your slate-grey future?
The future they all mapped out for you.

When you were a child you had some mighty dreams
You had some golden dreams
Dreams to drown out the demons
Then teachers, parents, preachers, and a mighty array of hastily-assembled creatures –
All assembled together in order to narrow down your vast ambitious horizons
And eliminate all trace of critical thought
-Or so they thought
Yet somewhere along the ledge a mass rejection of official narrative was birthed
One that steadfastly refused to be crushed this time
Whether by embedded strategies of Tension or some foxy Contelpro operation –
It was a genuine awakening
That refused to be put back to bed
Thus the censor in the head
Was nullified
And those that the media-mouthpieces vilified
Conversely became deified
The wealth of the west was built upon the blood of the east! We cried
Beneath the pavement, the beach! We cried
And in our reclaimed authenticity
We found ourselves no longer separated from our surrounds
Despite their mighty efforts and long-term plans
To cleanse the very soul of the city
And banish its heart to the blank hinterlands
A great and golden land spring liberated from out of the wells of our collective imaginations
Golden pillars frame the ponds wherein children bathed delightedly
And stars shone over reclaimed meadows and high grass where once the black glass of corporate finance held temporary dominion
Gone
All gone
Torn down and replaced with raucous inns – the Bucket of Blood reborn
Fruit now picked on Tyburn’s green pastures
And true, all this may not be truly cast as paradise
But it has once again become an authentic place
For running through this reclaimed space: Ichor
The magical blood that once coursed through the very veins of those ancient gods…

The ground swells
Hold tight, and set your sights upon those forgotten horizons and selfless deeds
For all is well
All is very well
Indeed.

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from Rejecting Soma, released October 19, 2017
Words : Steve Mcauliffe
Music : The Mighty Ur

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The Mighty Ur are Steve McAuliffe (words) AC Monks, DP & Sned (music).This bandcamp site holds the music created with with a variety of musical co-conspirators in a variety of styles along with the works of The Mighty Ur

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