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"Never underestimate your enemy, for then you've surely lost"
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As 2006 shifts to 2007 a nine-year-old dares his brother
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I turned fourteen that year when the League of Nations described our fate
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Uncomplicated, emotionless angles
Evading conflict, while still cornered
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Rolling across the keyboard like steam - a voltage voice, electrifying each note
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Cultures travel through generations, as do lies
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Cracking the joints, the pressure point on each knuckle
Ignoring the swell and pin-prick jabs of pain
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Sitting in the subway, leaning against the molded-over concrete walls
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Beaming the wattage of her faux-electric smile
Dripping with all the battery fluid -
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Timeless questions - are not wise, rather than unanswered
And so, await generations of ignorance
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Funny - how one person can mold your life like play-doh
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Liquefaction - your bones aren't crushed,
They melt - like ice in Death Valley
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Time is - debatable, intangible and theoretical
Nothing solid, seems to exist anymore.
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Buildings are bleak, gray - never silver
Houses downtown - all look the same
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Invisible surrender, counts for not.
You'll just have to be satisfied that-
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And bloody, twisted hearts hanging on- By a thread over the side of Mt. Everest.
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Rewriting the constitution, one guideline at a time
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A never-ending circle, open and confined.
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I have not a Country-
Nor a home to live or die for-
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I can't focus our vision or
Even locate your conscience
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If love flies, it's wings have been shot with slim, silver bullets.
Beautiful and cruel as weapons can be but, what did you expect?
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In my veins as rivers, for my heart as fire and upon my skin as ink.
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I'm boiling and I'm steaming, I'm overflowing and I can feel it
I'm cranking all the metal I can claw, from every radio station in the district
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All my senses are blending to drive me over each edge
The pressure is building while my heart is stopping
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Every year has a routine, whether it's new or old.
But, I know that one week of summer is always saved,
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Downtown their are murals,
Along all the brick walls,
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With that stun gun to my head, I feel so damn trusted
Just pull back that trigger before, before I've lost it
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Has war overrode all common sense?
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Our eyes could be locked with bolts,
Your crystal shards chained to stormcloud skies,
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See that freak who just walked by?
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Dragged from sleep at 7AM, just to hear the screams.
Crammed in a car at 7:30, just to be handed over to some shrink.
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Fittted, trimmed, supported.
Grown fixed, to metal poles.
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Keep your cigarette on the grass, let some flames burn you back
Y'all smoke to enjoy it, I'll smoke to die from it, so you can't envy me then.
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