"Like The End" by James Blake

As I posted the other day, Bertolt Brecht wrote, "In the dark times/Will there also be singing?/Yes, there will also be singing./About the dark times."

So James Blake has given us a mirror called "Like The End" which I was going to post on Inauguration Day but, well, hey, it's already here...and not just the incoming Empire of Darkness, but the whole she-bang, the floods, the fires, the viciousness, the vitriol, the apathy, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the willful ignorance, the rabid zealotry, the scams, the greed, the famines, the targeted destruction, the sanctioned crimes, the abdication of justice, the fetishization of force, the mass shootings, the self-medicating numbing. He's just giving the facts.

As I separate my cardboard
Set my tax aside to fund another war
My spirit wakes up asking
If we're spending what we can't afford

Would you come home
If you didn't recognise it?
Home's tryna be America
They just don't advertise it

But doesn't it feel like the end?
Something's coming for us
And maybe we're not prepared
That this might only be day one
But doesn't it feel like the end?
Something's coming for us
I think we're not prepared
That this might only be day one

Thinking of ourselves, we are divided
But if you fly your flag, they'll weaponise it
Doesn't it feel like the end?
When we can't even agree on what was said

Would you come home
If you didn't recognise it?
Home's tryna be America
They just don't advertise it

But doesn't it feel like the end?
Something's coming for us
And maybe we're not prepared
That this might only be day one
But doesn't it feel like the end?

Something's coming for us
I think we're not prepared
That this might only be day one

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