Anasarca Done In Our Name Lyrics

Done In Our Name Lyrics

[based on "Done in our Name" by an unknown author]

 

 I should have known

 we'd killed him

 Tuesday morning.

 I woke up strangely buoyant,

 whisteling a song 

 

 As when I bent

 over the dictionary's c's

 boldface, at the corner,

 there to catch my eye,

 were corpse candle, cauterize 

 and condemnation, cyanide

 

 I should have known then

 we'd killed him

 should have sensed the

 huge organism's

 sly joy, cat's paw

 

 Batting at his eye, in

 the chamber, out again

 cranky machinery of revenge

 grinding to and fro

 in the night

 in our name.

 

 One headline read "REPRIEVE"

 and just a block away

 another edition shouted "EXECUTED."

 

 It was done

 in our name.

 All our hands

 on the wheel

 that sealed him

 in the tomb.

 All our ears

 echoing with

 it's metallic clang.

 

 We all find ourselves

 murderers now

 participate in his death, 

 no - even more than that 

 We take part in his crime.

 

 Others are saddened,

 diminished or angry.

 But once it's done

 the clock has turned.

 

 It doesn't matter

 what we said.

 A man, a boy, is dead.

 

 It was done in the dark

 Tuesday morning 

 in our name and all our hands