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King Fool

from Cautionary Tales by The Oculist

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There you stand
Rock in hand
Charging around with your sense of entitlement

Furrowed brow
Beaten down
Inarticulately mumbling

Bit by bit
Your mask slips
Lose your grip

Underhand
By your own hand
We see the horror that lays beneath

Like the blind
leading the blind
Charging about like a bull in a china shop

Sticks and stones
Break your bones
Bombs do the job much more easily

Rhetoric
Veiled threats
Tomahawks used to seem well endowed

Watching the world burn down
King Fool wins again
Watching the world burn down
King Fool wins again
You’re warming your hands in the pyre
Of nations gone up in fire
Watching the world burn down
Watching the world burn down

Watching the world burn down
King Fool wins again
Watching the world burn down
King Fool wins again
You’re warming your hands in the pyre
Of nations gone up in fire
Watching the world burn down
Watching the world burn down

You can’t hide
Foolish pride
Do more to bite your thumb at your adversary

Intimidate
Nauseate
Contemptuous scathing lack of humility
Take the risk
Ballistic
Anticipatory hovering poised fingers

Truculent
Disrespect
Reckless endangerment of the world's populous

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from Cautionary Tales, released December 8, 2023

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The Oculist has been formed by two long time musical collaborators and friends Adam Dunn and Çağrı Tozluoğlu (aka Philamelian).

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