Powerful Idiot

from The Long Way Home by Christopher Nollett

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Oh burning furnace of pain
Your bright burden brilliance has cost us comfort and brought us pain
We may have walked an icy waste praying for a forest to replace a desert
But you followed a mighty scent through the trail to another lost voyage
And found a harbinger of perpetual chaos
Someone to even the score in a world carved out of fear
Seeking to bring you before the mightiest of judges
He has left the impression that the only suffering can come from your flame
Two weeks with no food or water to speak of would be solace
For your bitter heart proof
There is no god damn point in criticizing reactionary things
The golden token of one voice, one choice
The cynical side ways slice of the moment
Considering the cake walk you concocted
Sacrifices must sometimes be made for the sake of the vengeful
Some days you have to give a little more to those who deserve less
But for a powerful idiot the power is always more than deserved
The reaction always far worse than the reactionary
The visionary always be caustic than the vision brought forth in the history
The historian always more corrupt than the truth of actual events
A moron forges a path for fools yet to come
And writes the tone poems for the sentiment
Held so dear by the creatures in fear
Who have not dulled their senses enough with beer

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from The Long Way Home, released June 1, 2014

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Christopher Nollett Lincoln, Nebraska

I started playing guitar at age 13 which got the ball rolling with music as a creative endeavor. There is a wealth of respected musicians cultivating appreciations of established work and things derived from such, my current interest is in advancing my guitar work, developing my drumming, and continued work on crafting textures with synthesizers to expand rhythmic and harmonic possibilities. ... more

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