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We've abandoned truth for trade,
A world of blurred lines and shades of gray,
Where we sink into a digital sea,
And idolize our complacency.
What drives a child with efflorescent eyes
And innocence hidden behind wide smiles
To concede that her body is nothing but a commodity,
Fabricated worth determined by economies.

Cast down from the stars we were to be protected,
By the traitors who took us and then rejected,
And so a vicious cycle was spun,
Where we fell into hell where we first begun,
Where the power of names was fleeting,
And there were only empty promises of healing,
So let them use us for temporal security,
And we'll ignore the resulting cacophonies.

We've spent time on our knees, both in prayer and out,
The heavens are calloused to our suffering on the ground,
And if law and love are both a fabrication,
Then it's every man for himself, abandon battle stations.

Someday you'll see when the sun has ceased it's warmth,
That our rights and wrongs are dirt and the ground is our home,
No one listens, no cares beyond the stars,
And when we close our eyes we'll see only dark,
There is no future, no past, no security,
There is no rhyme or reason to the concept of eternity,
And if there is no rescue for the hopelessness we sell,
Then we'll make our homes in the depths in hell.

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from Dream of Waking Up, released January 1, 2016

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