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Theatre of the Absurd

from Welcome to the Club EP by Dead Heroes Club

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Taken from the Dead heroes Club Album 'A Time of Shadow'

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If these be our halcyon days,
What can we hope to find?
Will our future years be washed with tears?
- A fate that’s sealed and signed.
For now we can but sail the ship - steady as she goes.
Avoid the rocks, the hidden shocks, and the icy winds that blow
Steady as she goes…

But you know we sail without a destination,
And one by one we fade away.
And who says time will make it easier?
Don’t we all long for our yesterdays?
So the story goes…

Look how the world seems colder now – as we stumble to concede,
That the lies and creeds of hypocrisy will outlive the air we breathe.
If I could only find the will to take the mighty to the broken ones,
And say “if your deeds were fair, justify them there
To the daughters and the sons of the injustice you have done.”

But you know I sail without a destination,
And in the end I’ll fade away.
And who says time will make it easier?
Don’t we all long for our yesterdays?
So the story goes….

You know I don’t believe in all the things I read,
I just can’t trust the meaning.
This is all a theatre play but there’s no plot or lines to say,
And we’re just the actors for one season.
Hold on – there’s nothing left to say to you…

And so I join the ‘Passion Play’ and hide out in the masquerade,
Careful not to give myself away.
How wonderfully we play our parts upon this stage of hidden hearts,
With the final twist yet to be unveiled.
Hold on – There is nothing left to say to you…

I remember once, I walked behind
A black car in a funeral line, my face reflected in its glass.
And I noticed how I looked dignified, ennobled by the tears I cried,
So I turned my face towards the mass.
Hold on – There is nothing left to say to you…

Death on the skyline, bombs at the bus stop,
Tears in the terrace a thousand miles away.
Little lady Lilliput, gentle as a snowdrop,
She’ll blow your head off if you get in her way.

Jesus in a moneybag, crosses at the gift shop,
Salvation or redemption, pay for what you need.
Actors in the pulpits, preying on the sinners,
Stigmatic revelation, did you see the statue bleed?
In this theatre of the absurd -
Here’s the strangest truth that you’ve ever heard.

A gunman with a jury for the children of the ghetto,
“A bullet in the kneecap should help them understand!”
“Do as we say don’t do as we do!”
Say all the little Hitlers with their tin-pot plans.
In this theatre of the absurd -
Here’s the strangest truth that you’ve ever heard…

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from A Time of Shadow, released 17 November 2009

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from Welcome to the Club EP, released March 30, 2014

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Dead Heroes Club Mayo, Ireland

Dead Heroes Club are probably Ireland's only current Progressive Rock band Although as one rock critic points out "the blood of Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Tull, Pink Floyd and others floods their veins', Dead Heroes Club manage to achieve an original and inventive approach to their music. DHC offer modern melodic and passionate music & songs that deal with themes rooted in the modern world. ... more

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