Awake

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We are never to wake up
Never to make right with our lives or
fight, fight your crimes
every time you make us pick your side

I was taught to
Cheer for the colors of the nation state
make way for the ones of faith
treat others above as the great
treat myself with a self-loathing hate

My struggles went on for your petty delight
My never ending fight for my life
and when I lost I got lost in the fight

We are never to wake up
Never to make right with our lives or
fight, fight your crimes
every time you make us pick your side

I was taught to
Fear the eyes of the all-knowing state
I stood in line for as long as I broke
And in the wreckage of myself
I was found and I swore not to

Mind the blind the endless
herds of the righteous kind
these rules make us fools
for wrong reasons we got ruined
I chose my side and its not with them
I will not sleep now that I have awaken

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from The Escapist, released May 9, 2012

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