[my eidolon can transform any path into train tracks]
So goodbye lovely train tracks And goodbye broken trees The devil poured his concrete Across all our empty fields From shadows across our sunrise And sand beneath our wheels So goodbye lovely warehouse And goodbye sleeping weeds Your beauty was a shining thing That fell away from me
one of the reasons ajj is superior is that no other band seems to convey the experience of the cognitive dissonance of trying to live as a ‘good person’ and act according to morals in the first world and mitigate the harm and damage you inflict upon countless others simply by virtue of your day-to-day activities as well as they do. it’s a constant undercurrent to almost every one of their songs and they have mastered that particular conundrum so expertly
it’s like. you inhabit the belly of the beast. you try to be good. you try to be good. you try to be good. you try to be
