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We see you have built a pleasure dome on a hill
We’ve come to document your accomplishments and good will
We bring you our literary sense and our finest gifts
We’ll enter your ice caves and tell the tales to our kids
Nothing will silence us
Nothing will blindfold us
Art cannot end us

Soon in the ground there appears a mighty rift
The void it exposes threatens to burn our gifts
With swift and deafening half-intermitted bursts
The chasm shoots forth what may kill us all, or worse…
The stones that will silence us
The darkness that blindfolds us
The fear that will end us

Kublai Khan, show yourself to me!
If I beat my chest, surely I will see
The opulence, the rivers that can speak—
The damsels with their dulcimers and blue beads
Surely, I can build dreams,
Plant vast, golden prairies, breathe new life into ancient history
Surely, I’ll fill blue streams,
Kublai Khan, if you just show yourself to me

Receding from your stately pleasure dome on the hill
Ten miles out to sea, the outlines of ice caves chill my blood
To just above freezing; oh, if only I could revive
The damsel’s song, delicate, ephemeral; it’s trapped our minds
We fear that it’s silenced us
We see that it’s blindfolded us
Our theft, our art—will end us
Take heed; believe us

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from On the Shortness of Life, released May 16, 2018

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Queen Cabbage New York, New York

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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