Share with the Swine

[Verse 1] Half for us, half for the swine, we are feasting, Chewing dry bark while the taste never ends. The gap ‘tween you and me is increasing, Like a crack where the banquet descends. Into the stars’ icy crotch, cold and hollow, Into news’ rotten glamour and glare, Vengeance points with a finger to follow, From the bones crushed in grips of despair. [Chorus] And the blood flows so dull through the stifling veins now, And the sticky sweat tickles the fat of the flesh! We have lived to the shortage of changes and gains now, And we cannot defeat this old ration, unless... Where you may, or may not, draw a hollow death mark, Widening gulfs between me and you. All the whiteness has faded into the dark, In the bread crust the swine’s biting through. [Verse 2] The question is raised... for how long must we wait? But no answer is heard in the night. I am part of the deal, it’s a shared kind of fate, With a snout in these boots, out of sight. Like a hunched, barefoot hag in the gloom, Cross the floor with a loud creak through the room. Belly to belly, we’re sealed in this tomb, Packing ourselves into mincemeat today. [Bridge] They say that "man shall not live by bread alone"... But they pack us in crates like some sticky ground meat. In a long, hollow space, we have turned into stone, To the mindless and triumphant march of the feet. [Outro] And the blood flows so dull through the stifling veins now, And the sticky sweat tickles the fat of the flesh! We have lived to the shortage of changes and gains now, And we cannot defeat this old ration, unless... Where you can, where you can't, they were drawing with chalk, Widening gulfs between me and you. All the blackness has taken what used to be white, In the bread crust the swine’s biting through.