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Opium Lyrics by Colson Lin

Daybreak: The Nightfall Edition

2025

[spoken]
“‘So Christ came back to tell us we're the problem—he has no solutions other than utopian ones—and we’ll always be the problem.'”

[Audience has no reaction.]

[spoken]
“You'd think it’d snap something awake in someone.”

Who am I to be (oh I'm not any older than them…)
Whippin' 'em; oh, I'm just over here rippin' 'em…
If Jim and I share
A fear in our eyes…?
“Imperfection” in me
Is the “asymmetry” of “we”…
So who am I to be
Toe to toe, eye to eye…?

O-pi-um…
Oh, you o'еr there roastin’ ’em…
O'еr the lie that you’ll never decline…
Ol' human hopes
Still steer through you just the same…
Ancient blood still can run flush through your veins
Oh, they'll know you know…
(“p” honors our “vitality”…)
They'll know you know everything God knows about me
Oh—o-pi-um…
Oh, you holdin’ the door open for me?
This time pray “them's” different from thee
This time pray “they's” different from C

[Drums intensify.]

“Ad-der-alled,” by all the “de-mo-cra-cy”…
While they're over there “Benzedrined” by “fear”…
Anyway… that's just “the beat on the street”…
(“So what else is new over here in Oceania…?”)
A human will, trashes through all human tears…
Bass hungers pound through all beatin' hearts
“Imperfection” in me
Mirrors allusions to “thee”…
All the mistakes we ever made
“Were each other's…”

O-pi-um…
Oh, just cling onto that podium…
On the lie that you'll never be free…
Holy kindred hopes
Sear through us all “just the same”…
Timeless blood still can run flush through your veins
Oh, they'll know you know
(“p” honors our “whisper trees”…)
They'll know you know everything God could say
Oh—o-pi-um…
Oh, hope you'll just keep homin' them…
This time pray God built “them” different from
Thee
This time pray God made “they” different from
Me

[Lo-fi intensifies.]

Put us on uppers
Put 'em on downers
Where is my supper
Invert that frown, there

Oh, you'll just keep smokin' 'em…
(Whisperin' all your pretty rings into firs)
Oh good look, now you have smoky men…
(“Mom, why's Satan's whippin' God's boys into jerks?”)
That's drats, I'll just give you a soda then…
(Dress you up all red and white
In blue compliments…)
“God don't exist—or if He does, reason's not Him…!”
“Insincerity is ‘fine'; slavery can end soon or won't it?”
“Wars can't be turned into non-violent
Chance-and-luck-based skill games…”
Oh look, just keep winnowin' them
Pause here, rewind—now you have “smoky men”…
Now whisper all your powderpuffs
(Into “Jim”…)

(“Oh, so that's how Satan wins…”)
O-pi-um…
(“And you didn't think Christ could see through that?”)
So you'll just keep smokin' 'em…
(“It's why I think stupidity's a sin…”)
On the lie that you'll always retain…
Your human hopes
Burn through you all just the same!
American threads can still sew tears through your veins
Oh, they know I loom
(Like a caterpillar in the soil you eat from…)
Oh, o-pi-um…
Oh, you just keep sellin' 'em
It's true more of you dulls our pain

(Put us on uppers
Put 'em on downers
Where is my supper
Invert that frown, there)

It's true more of you dulls our pain
It's true more of you dulls our pain
It's true more of you dulls our pain

(Put us on uppers
Put 'em on downers
Where is my supper
Invert that frown, there)

Oh, o-pi-um
Oh, you'll just keep sellin' 'em…

[spoken]
“Religion is the opiate of the masses. So I must be the opiate of the elites! Genius…”
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Colson Lin

Colson Lin

About “Opium” by Colson Lin

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"Opium" appears on "Daybreak: The Nightfall Edition" in 2025.

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