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No Utopia
02:41
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We are lying to ourselves
We say we have the beast under control
An unfounded faith in human nature
A nature that isn’t shared by all
And yet we still believe we’re gaining ground
But one man’s paradise must be another’s hell
History has shown we never see it coming
The things that keep us clawing at these broken walls
We sacrifice each other to the god of progress
But we forget that chaos hasn’t yet been overthrown
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My life is in my hands
Falling through my fingers
If I keep reaching out for more, all will slip away
We tell ourselves that there is more
Some elusive end
But all that we’ve created are these chains
I have barely moved an inch
All I’ve made is wasted time
My life is in my hands
Now clench them into fists
Now is the time to realise some things cannot be found
A life forever searching will yield an empty shell
Please do not waste all of this precious time
Or you will be nothing but a hollow log burning away
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Mind in the Machine
02:46
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Wealth and admiration are the drugs
But we have been numbed to their effects
We have all been hooked on a life of discontent
But we cannot question this
We’re in over our heads
Success will only leave us searching
Will leave us forever wanting more
Will we ever stop and realise that these dreams were never really ours?
And we keep on spinning inside of the wheel
But we have lost sight of what it means to be fulfilled
If we do not decide how much is enough
There can be no end to this until the end of us
I refuse to tread this path
I will find another way
I will not live for your future
I will live for my today
Breaking this addiction has left me lost and alone
But I reject your expectations as they were never my own
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These Shackles
03:42
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Now we have revealed the damage we have done
But there is not wisdom enough to live beyond our nature
We say that we’re willing, but we do not sacrifice
We say that we’re trying, but we do nothing at all
To save ourselves
To save this place
We’re coming to an end
Can we break the cycle?
We have lost control
We have tipped the scale
Trapped in the machine
Beyond our comprehension
We are in too deep to reverse this dissolution
All that we can do now is keep these wheels in motion
We have built these shackles, these restraints
Constrained by the body of the snake
Intentions cannot penetrate
We must leave this wreckage in our wake
If we do not realise how blind we truly are
Then empathy goes hand in hand with the evils we deplore
We are far too willing to pass on the blame
As we refuse to see the destruction in our name
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Divided and at War
04:59
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Fear, ignorance and greed have built the enemy
But the wise man is he who sees himself in every other
Will we ever learn to hate the idea and not the messenger?
For the ignorant man has never really made up his own mind
Ideas are built by culture
They are not our own
To hate the man predisposed
Soon we must learn to hate our own
The self-righteous man, so sure of what he sees
Is so willing to harm all of those who disagree
This time you may find yourself on the right side of the divide
But never forget that history will make a guilty man of all
We cannot seem to see that we could have been our enemy
In another time, another place
So now we fight hatred with hate
Do you really think that violence breeds true change?
To follow this path is to suffer all the same
To kill the unlearned; crush those who haven’t heard
Will sustain this cycle endlessly
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