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A steampunk nation
Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause
Our art's official and only partially artificial
And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but
There's not where it settles
Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle
And now we face it, this creation we made to
To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's
Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation
In our steampunk nation
Our steampunk nation
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― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.
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― Of Tender Sin
― Of Tender Sin
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