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Scorn
03:40
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Restricting your rhetoric
Every phrase pre-determined
Word by word in unison
You all give the same sermon
Simple minds think alike
Every sheep needs a guide
So you abide by the lowest common denominator
Why do you feel obliged to sacrifice substance for common ground?
Honesty outweighs artifcial scorn
But tilting at windmills seems so much easier
Than giving in to the fact that you live life without concern
Restricting your rhetoric
Every phrase predetermined
Word by word in unison
You all give the same sermon
Simple minds think alike
Every sheep needs a guide
So you abide by the lowest common denominator
If they truly cared about making a difference
How has it been all these years and the only complaint that remains is about the lack of change?
Fed up with your artificial scorn
Give in to the fact that you live life without concern
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You carry yourself as if
raising the same old questions
would be the same as creating change
Comforting yourself with the thought that your observations
could initiate a change for the better
Pointing fingers
Does not equal a helping hand
With all due respect - is it worth rehashing old arguments
If you lack the depth to offer a new solution?
So quick to point out insufficiencies
There is no blame, just the wish for you to stop pretending
You carry yourself as if
In order to be a part of this
You'd be bound to deliver the same old story
No safe haven without turning waves
And you don't see at all
How your projections
Reflect disaffection
With yourself
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Defense
04:32
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I can see the irony
In going on about complaining
Your complete lack of self-awareness
Is what seperates you from me
Twisting the world
Until it fits in with your simple minded opinions
Regardless of inconsistencies
To search for the culprit
You should ask yourself what you stand for
Trying to put everyone on the defense
Demanding perfection of everyone but yourself
I can see irony
In going on about complaining
Moving on from past projections
Turn around and bounce back
Twisting the world
Until it fits in with your simple minded opinions
Regardless of inconsistencies
Trying to put everyone on the defense
Demanding perfection of everyone but yourself
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Fraternized in self-imposed exclusion
A brigade of privileged hypocrites
You would rather fabricate complication
Than own up to the easy path your life has taken
Their biggest fear is to be rejected
So they all play along
Isn't it disturbing that they tell you to fulfill yourself
yet expect you to sing their same old song?
They pride themselves on non-conformity
but want you to be led on
They will lead you on
I won't kneel to a speech that forces me to agree
Fraternized in self-imposed exclusion
A brigade of privileged hypocrites
You built up a facade to hide behind
But anxiety sprouts from the inside
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Powerless, depressed
self-hating and full of regrets
A sense of inferiority
Suffering from neglect
Mirrored in those you deem
Weak, defeated
Autonomy lost
Missing the inner sense of confidence
in your ability to solve your own problems
Striving to be a voice for the voiceless
regardless of your lack of involvement
Powerless, depressed
self-hating and full of regrets
A sense of inferiority
Autonomy lost
[Deprived of all distress
Too dependent on the fear of a threat
Bleak constructs meant to harvest compassion
Thriving on a martyr's complex]
Striving to be a voice for the voiceless
regardless of your lack of involvement
Trapped inside a chamber of echoes
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You're wrong
You won't see me fall
For your farce and your indoctrination
So vain yet so thin-skinned
No compromise for appreciation, no dumbing down
Your self-rigtheousness will drag you to the ground
They will follow wherever the stream goes
Swimming in sewage will only get you so far
You're treading water and fail to see
That you spoiled the ship for a hap'orth of tar
You're wrong
You won't see me fall
To misguidance and compromise
Just to fit an outworn pattern
Emerald waves run dry
Stranded by the tide
Emerald waves run dry
Stranded by the tide
Exposing rotten structure
At the bottom of the river
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