Life out of Balance in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Walking through the streets of Coruscant
Dreaming of the Golden Age gone
I can't afford not to be careful
Must keep my guard up
Men in white patrol the streets
Night and Day again and again
Intimidating and arresting citizens
Whether they're guilty
Or innocent
Taking them in to be butchered
Or Force-choked by a man in black
Who cares nothing for life
An Empire that uses force of arms
To keep the so-called peace and order
No regard for equality or freedom
Is in their flesh and blood
A supreme Emperor
Rules with an iron fist
And does not allow any alien
To have a privilege enjoyed by man
Life forms rotting in under-levels
Others toiling for lazy butchers
With whips and boiling hot oil
Night and Day
Tiny craft that roar like lions
With the roars more high-pitched
Soar through space and air
And destroy all foes through force of numbers
Not caring even for each other
And massive destroyers
Bombard innocent cities and planets
With no more regard than anyone else
Who serves this blasted Empire
They claim to bring peace and order
But all they bring is war and chaos
The Jedi could have prevented this
But they were too complacent
Basking in false security
They never foresaw their downfall
Now everywhere
Is filth and disorder
Homeless aliens
Lost in a sea
Of bigoted humans
Reluctantly working
For the men's base desires
Human officers
Fearing failure and punishment
Particularly when Darth Vader
Is nearby
Stromtroopers without minds
Consciences or hearts
Obeying orders to kill and destroy
And doing nothing else
Not even camaraderie
Bonds them like men anymore
Whole families
And groups of friends
Terrified of speaking their minds
When there's no freedom of speech
Unless they wholly agree
With the base Imperial viewpoint
That the Empire is righteous
And the Jedi are traitors
And that aliens can't be trusted
Them being so inferior
To humans
Male humans
Such human folks
Get fat and rich
Off the sufferings
Of those poor people
And thrive from the wealth and power
Of a government that favors the rich
And shows no quarter
To the disagreeable dissidents
Blasters and lasers
Cannons and bombs
Death by war
Death by execution
Death by accidents
Death by vanishings
Social programs too
Have been abolished
In favor of the most massive
Military buildup ever
Gratuitous and ludicrous
In its size and form
This is the norm.
Now the Jedi have returned
And destroyed the Emperor
The Empire has been weakened
And a New Republic is born
But can it ever truly
Go back to what it was
No I don't think so
For no matter how many times
Luke Skywalker righteously insists
That his father Darth Vader
Is the savior of the galaxy
Anakin Skywalker
Can never truly atone
For his crimes and sins
Whatever his family may say
To the contrary
The Empire continues
And its New Order
Will never truly die
And I know the war is far from over
Because a truthful Grand Admiral
Of the Empire said so
And this lack of balance
To the Force and the universe
Shall endure until
The end of all things
That is the new norm.
Koyaanisqatsi
(A state of life that calls for another way of living)