Big Lie

from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1) by Sloth Metropolis

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After trying division, minute definition, he tries the Big Lie of the opposite vision.

Tounge-eyed tele-evangelist with his pulse on the apocalypse
The smell of hell and tangerines and odd socks lost preposterous
With mayan miscalculations on the eve of things profound
If I had a pound for everyone I’d have a lot of pounds

So tell me why
Tell me why
Is that a fact?
Or is it just a big lie?

Is jesus just Prometheus, was Apollo just a joke?
Is 999 a sex line designed to make you want to boke?
Is the Sasquatch watching over us from rocky mountain high?
Was rosebud and the third man sending red weed from the sky?

If you give me all your money then I’ll tell you a secret
Only gold or maybe silver will allow me to speak it
A one time special offer for a mystical banquet
That will tear away the twisted metaphysical blanket
From your eyes, oh from your eyes
You’ll see the world without disguise

I don’t know and you don’t know
And we don’t know one bit
But Ockham had a razor
AND IT’LL CUT YOU UP TO SHIT

Simplify
You’ve got to simplify
A few less words coming out of your mouth
Come on & just give it a try

The new world will be ordered by a lucky chosen few
Who spread their dread diseases giving Tweety-pie the flu
And shedding off her human skin, our scaly reptile queen
The irony it seems to me the truth is more obscene

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from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1), released August 8, 2014

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SLOTH METROPOLIS is a musical mythology & ongoing sloth-themed rock opera told in prog, psych, folk and paper mache.

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