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Laughter Travels Light​-​years

from Let's Make It Your Fault EP by Sunset Architect

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A species far superior looking down at the competition scheme that is so prevalent on Earth and engrained within the primitive Earthlings. Will they ever outgrow it?

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Very soon now, laughter will begin to arrive,
From other planets out across the cosmic divide,
Little giggles at our world’s petty attempts and basic concepts,
Only now will we hear it far and wide,
The chuckling began early on in our history,
But only reaches us now after light-years of travel,
Other worlds on the ground, rolling with laughter,
And all we can do is scratch our heads, being left baffled,
At the emanating sound coming across the abyss,
What is the meaning of this?
Is there something we missed?
May I suggest, it could be best assessed,
That our eternal unrest might be behind this universal jest?
Transmission lost on a joke over our heads,
But we just laugh along as if a punch-line were said,
There never was one, so a question was replaced,
If this is the human race, then who’s in first place?

To the victors with loyal hands go the spoils,
To the losers with foiled plans, there is only the soil,
Decomposition changing their bodies, back into oil,
To spoil future generations with the fruits of their toil,
It must be addressed; this constant competitiveness,
I think it matters much more than we would care to confess,
Nevertheless, it can be expressed, as an elaborate test,
A relentless game with which we all obsess,
Laughter travels light-years, but cries barely get ten feet,
The sounds of battles won far outweigh those of defeat,
As Wilcox said in “Solitude” and it’s now well-known,
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone.”
Try to keep your eye on the struggles ending result,
As you evade others’ assaults and realize your own faults,
And in this war of life, one thing is for sure,
It is your duty to explore yourself and make you yours.

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from Let's Make It Your Fault EP, track released November 7, 2011

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