Don't search for the hero inside
Don't look in the mirror and change
Don't learn to love yourself
Forget all that inconsequential crap

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All that shallowness 
You masquerade as depth
Look for the devil inside and
Look for the darkness and

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Accept or reject it
Don't ignore it
You need to consider it
One day at a time

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Don't shower me in your 
Airy-fairy 
Perfect love
And come criticize mine

Unless you know your demons 
And have overcome them
One by one by one

(By one by one...)

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One by one

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Don't search for the hero inside
Don't buy your truth off a shelf
Ask yourself who designed this truth
And who designed the shelf itself

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Politicians with ideas
They just can't bear to waste
They stored them in their mind
In some cruel, dark place.

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We are closer to the roof than you think
You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide

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Simple ways to stay in power by
Filling every waking hour 
with trivia and debt 

So

Aspirations replaced by nostalgia
And regret for your entertainment
Served up for your enjoyment
Watch in haste repeat at leisure

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Dignified I lied
The eyes of snakes were watching me
To see me make my next mistake
'Cause...

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Tragedy has bruised you
But I take things so personally
If I were as pretty as you 
I still would not be happy so

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Don't search for the hero inside
Don't look in the mirror and change
Don't learn to love yourself
Forget all that inconsequential crap

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All that shallowness 
You masquerade as depth
Look for the devil inside and
Look for the darkness

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Simplified I try
My shadows are all spoken for 
All the the fish in the seas are occupied
Living full and happy lives

The leaves don't leave the trees for fun
Their time has come
This winter lasts too long

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You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide
There's no good side to pick so

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Just sit back and watch or
Raise your voice to protest
Get checked and 
Processed... 

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You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide
There's no good side to pick so

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Just sit back and watch or
Raise your voice to protest
Get checked and 
Processed... 

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So who will protect my children
From the advancing armies
Of the nostalgic?

You give a man 
A can of coke in prison
Tell him 
He's tasted freedom

Simple ways to stay in power.

 
(Note: I'm awake but it's always 4 in the morning)

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