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Lyrics by Erik Davis
Music by Mark Nichols
Performed by Melinda Smart

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THE END OF THE LINE

ANTIMONY
The spiral dance is a twisted strand
Double trouble DNA band
The corkscrew unwinds
Grapes of the vine
The sparkling wine of your spine
Uncorked, uncoiled
A ladder ascending
Stitching and mending
The ties that bind
The code of creation
Programming us all for major
mutation
The end of the cycle
The archangel Michael
Is splicing us all with his blade
But don’t be afraid
Remixed and remade
We will dance to the beat of the
final parade
We will dance to the beat of the
endless parade

Spring forward, fall back

Turning and turning
The widening groove
Makes me want to move
I really want to move
Outta this game they make us play
The Babylon scam that continues
to lay
Waste to the spaceship earth we
ride
Galaxy class, energy-mass
Woven together in time
A moment of grace
The clock is losing its face
Gotta replace the calendar pages
With the spell of Mayan mages
The spinning wheels of ancient
ages
And the days of the sages of old

Spring forward, fall back

The timebomb is ticking
The serpent recoils
Chasing its tail through the tree
of life
The endless strife
That we bring on and on and on
And on and on and on
Last stop Kali Yuga
Twenty-twelve seconds to go
Last stop Kali Yuga
Twenty-twelve seconds to go

The end of the line, there’s no
more time
To not do what you will
So stop making deals
Live in the world that you want to
be real

[During Antimony’s prophecy,
Bud, high as a kite, follows a
fetching young thing out of the tent
(will-o’-the-wisp!). Alone, Brook
meets Antimony, who melts her
resistances. From out of nowhere, a
vibrant parade of feral fashionistas
descends, magically transforming
the grumpy Brook into an
empowered avatar of herself.
Outside is in.]

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from How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera - Live in San Francisco, released December 4, 2012

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