Pax Americana

from Collateral EP by The Vanities

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if it doesn't happen right away
it takes forever and a day
and fades the longer that you wait

the closer that you look the less you know
it breaks in pieces as you go
that bear no semblance to the whole

so you can bow to the sky above
I'm sorry dear there is no love
or punishment out hunting in the starry night

so you can fool yourself on your knees
there's places I would rather be
perhaps I'll meet you there when you get wise

here's the bruised heart of an iron fist
the double past of one who says
I wish it hadn't come to this

look until there's nothing left to see
the slumped shoulders of centuries
a nation driven to its knees

untold millions resulted in you
for one brief lifetime someone who
I tried to know and claimed I knew

so how did you who were so inspired
ever come to be so mired
in the petty detail of your daily chore

so call a truce with the yawning depth
a stolen ocean where you kept
your council calling from opposing shores

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from Collateral EP, track released October 20, 2014

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The Vanities San Jose, California

The Vanities is the solo project of Peter Colclasure, who has played in many bands over the years from Wisconsin to Boston to Seattle. Bands include The Kissers, Facts About Funerals, Smile Brigade, and The Foghorns. He lives in San Jose, CA.

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