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Beggar's Cup

from Rage (Remastered 2022) by John Ludi

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We are all part of "the system" to a greater or lesser extent, and it's a system that is...um...systemic. It permeates our very psyches and we largely live as it unthinkingly and destructively dictates.

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There's angels dancing on the heads of pins
while the reaper cleans off his blade
and the tired silhouettes of stale cliches
slip past our lips in peasant's praise.

Don't break down and don't give up
as long as breathing fills your beggars cup.

All black stains of gods flushed from the skies
sunken shadows with dead newsprint eyes
greet the advent of dawn with despair...
every bridge closed for repairs.

There's a game being bet upon
and we're too busy playing it.
There a lie we're not hearing
as we're all busy saying it.

There are graves being dug to be filled
with the ashes of our failed wills.
And the endless dance of futility
cycles on and on through eternity.

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from Rage (Remastered 2022), released June 4, 2015

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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