Blacktop pavement cover me   Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller spreading randomly      There's a distant buzz and low frequency   It tickles my ear, 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 unite a peoples' will      There's a shadowed stain on the west facade   It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud   And the descendants find it 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   What was once is reduced to rememberance   And the generations pass without recompense      What pretension, everlasting peace   Everything must cease