Other Adam Isom
Ouroboros

Written in ~45mins (after sit down), another ~15mins to record this crappy Quicktime thing. Lyrics below. Yes, flowery, pretentious maybe, used rhymezone.com's thesaurus option a bit more than usual; also inspired by Empire of Things, a hefty history of consumerism.

Thin
Are the garments
In the tenements
Of sin

Wants
Never to be achieved
The noble savage bereaved
Unquiet detente

It powers the steamboat
It powers the factory
Don’t stay still
The source of our wild oats
The root of our misery
We’ll strive until
We join

The realm of the rock
The kingdom of rot
But ambitions aren’t bought
And no, pursuit isn’t taught

It’s the schizophrenic
Code
That defies the second law
Until one day we
Overdraw

If you think you can escape
You’ve only traded fantasies

Want and want
The devil is
The font
Of godliness too

The snake is
The reason you’re alive
Eating its own tail
Constructing its own jail