Heavy Metal

My friend Drew Shafer has informed me

that the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying

sings and plays a song called “Upside-Down Kingdom.”

Metal is not my native genre,

but I was intrigued,

and wanted to share this with my upside-down friends.

Drew gave me the lyrics:

Upside Down Kingdom

by As I Lay Dying

Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife

When there is none to be found here before we die.

So I understand the feeling of helplessness

When we are just taught to wait here

Wait here for death.

Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end.

Wait here for death. Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end.

We are not forgotten, 
for a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets.

We can represent now what will one day be complete.

Simplicity is not a curse

Where strength is humbled and the powerless rise.

And the powerless rise.

This is a kingdom born upside-down.

This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned.

Wait here for death. Wait here for death.

The “blessings” of excess are only a burden on us.

It's a broken system where we just wait for death.

It's a broken system where suffering can never end.

Simplicity is not a curse

Where strength is humbled and the powerless rise.

And the powerless rise.

This is a kingdom born upside-down.

This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned.

The broken are crowned.

If helplessness is our system 
then we're better off upside-down.

What do you think about this?