blacktop pavement cover me
  like a chemical reaction or a steam roller
  spreading randomly
    there's a distant and a low frequency
  it tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet
  and it shakes the leaves off of every tree (violently)
  what pretension! Everlasting peace
  everything must cease
    institution on the Hill
  like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
  to ignite a people's will
    there's a shadowed stain on the west facade
  it has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
  and the descendants find oh so odd
  (oh so odd)
  what pretension! Everlasting peace
  everything must cease
    grave memorial hewn white stone
  like the comforting caress of a mother
  or a friend you've always known
    it evokes such pain and significance
  and the generations pass without recompense
  what pretension! Everlasting peace
  everything must cease