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Why don't you just relax?
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A hornet will guard its nest with all its best intentions
The condescensions suffered from the rest of us are meaningless because
They cannot hear them, they only see our swiping, spitting mayhem
Actions so aggressive that they mobilise and weaponise themselves

Time is a hornet, banging its bug-eyed head against the round glass pane of the clock high on the wall
The gliding second hand remains in flight despite it all

You’re asking questions to complicate and nuance your perspective
You only know that you can merely hazard at the sewer rat’s ennui
But you’re not discouraged - your questions are meticulously worded
You think a lot on what you’ve got to focus on, pin down and get across

He voice was like a hornet, rattlin’ in his oily throat arrowed at my brow - words I could scarcely deny
But the tone even now it sticks a needle in my eye

Hornets are soldiers - they make their homes by chewing up the landscape
They layer their combs and populate the canopy, the primates flee the trees
We see an army, expendable, invincible battalion
A legion fed on protein that’s too dangerous to live with us in here

Fear is like a hornet, beating its wings to flutter the sheets of the ghosts hovering to my left and right
A mercy bid for holy host for hornets here to smite

When I’ve finished singing I’ll click the mouse and play from the beginning
I’ll pile up all my papers and the coffee cups and mop up all this bile
And go to the kitchen and pour myself a glass of double vision
And know what I have written is a masterpiece, and concede defeat with pride

To lose your hornet, make start to freeze him out, petition his free will - plan a route through thin air and go
Spend some time just sitting still and open your windows

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from Life, Death, Damnation, Peace, released April 4, 2019
Michael Humphrey

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