Blacktop pavement cover me   Like a Chemical Reaction or a steam roller   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 ignite a people's 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 remembrance   And the generations pass without recompense   What pretension   Everlasting peace   Everything must cease   Everything must   Cease