Throwaway Empire

Nobody admires the ruins, Of a throwaway empire

They left a shitty plastic flag on the moon

The used whalebone to make nature groan

And to make all the ladies swoon

Built a facade instead of civilization

Around the worship of worldly mammon

They had just enough of the right kind of faith

To make them sacrifice the innocents

At night the rubble glows, rusty water flows

Watch out for feral tigers and the razorbacks

Relic of the frontier, I only survive out here

Guiding safaris for pseudo-brave guys named Vlad

Some folks grow things, by scratching in the earth

In the spots that aren’t too radiated

Some smelt the oxidized beams that lay around
Skim the dross and sell the remnant

That’s the homage we pay to that throwaway empire

That barely registers in our memories

Because even when it was, it was working toward

Ceasing ever to be!

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