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THE DROVES

by CAPA

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The droves: Forward they plod, Driven forth by their shadows. Cries of anguish fill their lungs As the weight of the yoke Under which they toil Bears down upon their shoulders. A yoke of invention and reinvention. An apparition masquerading as revealed truth. The yoke of good news. Under the strain they groan. Under the gaze of their Blind watchmaker They clamber forth —the droves— Trudging through a world viewed in Monochrome, Eyes cast only up or down.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, But lined with flowers: Their warmth preventing The caress of cold metal from the skin; And their hue keeping The glint of steel from the eye. Yet a prison adorned in splendor Remains a prison nonetheless. This is bondage from within and without Garlanded with the Cherished illusions Of a new life yet to come; A condition of confinement Undergirded with efflorescent wreaths; A chain which requires its garland Lest it cease to be a chain: The shackle yoking the droves Together in their masses, As they labor obediently in The miasma radiating from their flora. But when the pedals fall away (One by one) The mist recedes to reveal The vale of tears They’ve left. Untouched, Unadulterated: Intact.
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A true Eden could bloom Beneath their feet From the soil on which they tread. No fallacious blossoms these, If only they cared to see them. But not the droves: Beneath their heavy gait Roots long to crack the earth In an affirmation of The living flower— An amelioration of the vale If only the yoke were tossed off And the chain seen without its wreath: A blinding iron shackling these masses To their false glory; Keeping them interned in a cave, Cowering at the shadows dancing on the wall By the light of their invented candle. The sun gleams beyond the cave’s walls, Beyond the yoke, On the soil of the living garden Trampled by this flock. But they plant only poppies —the droves— Grown in a halo: Sealing us in the vale, Blocking out the sun. "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and cull the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself." -Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1844)

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released August 26, 2014

Brandon Scott Baun
Matthew Hershey
Cody Golob

Additional vocals on "Chains and Garlands" by Keith Craley

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Josh Mitchell at Everloft Studios

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