It failed to explode

Talk is cheap
A euphoric reflex as tensions overheat
Action comes cheap
Romance and emancipate, romance and emancipate

As tensions overheat
As tensions overheat

Define liberty
But a short-lived reprieve until it's once again displaced?
Grievances cease?
To hang on tenterhooks until, to hang on tenterhooks until

It's once again displaced?
It's once again displaced?

It failed to depose
It stalled at the coming to blows
It failed to explode
Explode, explode

Celebratory in the debris
Deceptive empirical collapse
Yet
It failed to atone
It failed to explode

Sadly illusive in its epoch-making
Pocket change for a moment of peace
Because
It failed to disown
It failed to explode

There's always a hole to fill
Circumventing convictions
Autocratic traits are the constant
If at first (to appease) with a different spin

It failed to explode
Outside watchers beat their brows
Nurturing vested interests
Is the infinite struggle worth it
When there's always a hole to fill?

It failed to explode
It failed to explode