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Bedtime Prayers for Abstract​-​Adjective Teenagers

from An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing by Queen Cabbage

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Darkness, can I make one last request?
May my nitrogen help grow some greener grass?
Can I ask that of you? Is there anything I can do
But decay and turn blue
I’ll be dead, like in a silent dream with boots of lead

Darkness, are you listening to me?
My assailants surround me from all sides in my dreams
But I’m stuck to the ground and my vision begins to fade
They close in; they invade
But I’m dead, and I’m safe, just like you always said

I hope my body helps grow some flowers
But flowers fall, and grass turns brown and withers to nothing
Oh…

“Come,” said the darkness, “I am your light now.
Follow me boldly where you must go.”
“Maps cannot help you; I’ll be your compass
Follow me boldly to the unknown.”

“Though you can no longer see with your human eyes,
You will learn to be at peace while you are blind.”
Well, I don’t mind; you know, I’m really not that vexed
We don’t know what comes next
We’ll be dead, like violets picked and painted red

Will our friends come pay their sincerest respects,
And will their righteousness mean only stiffer necks?
Or will it mean that somehow they gain some social capital?
We don’t know; we don’t make that call
We’ll be dead; we’ll never hear the eulogies they wrote and read

I hope that peace will come before microbes
Start to crawl around and break me down into nothing
Oh…

[Chorus]

I hope my body helps grow some flowers
But flowers fall, and grass turns brown and withers to nothing
Oh…

[Chorus]

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from An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing, released September 28, 2018

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Originating in late 2017 at SUNY Purchase, Queen Cabbage is a folky art rock band dedicated to synthesizing silliness, seriousness, life, death, the beautiful, and the grotesque into earnest, powerful, emotionally immediate music for eager feet to dance and stumble to, for thoughtful hearts to beat and break to, and—most importantly—for authority figures to disapprove of. Queens ~~ Welcome! ... more

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