Ransom

What wish will ransom me

Unbury violently

All innocents, all innocents?

Lanterns illumine me

Burning the memory

Rise innocent, rise innocent

What rage will usher me

Swallow the enemy

Buy innocence, buy innocence

Lanterns illumine me

Incense from memory

Rise innocent, rise innocent

Or is the long war won?

The army in me gone

Overrun?

To heal this violent son

A breath from one last lung

Overcomes

Pull out the song from every open mouth at once

The lantern tongues!

And i will hear the song in every heart at once

The roaring drums

The harlot and the priest, the prophet and the thief

Up from their knees

In all their open mouths I see the lantern tongues

Light up at once

What wish will ransom me

Unbury violently

All innocents, all innocents?

Lanterns illumine me

Burning the memory

Rise innocent, rise innocent

What rage will usher me

Swallow the enemy

Buy innocence, buy innocence?

Lanterns illumine me

Incense from memory

Rise innocent, rise innocent