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calm; a disposition free from stress or emotion

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There must be serenity

The echoes of my voice (the echoes of my voice)

make fun; treat with contempt

So simple (the anguish)

As it mocks me

Crawling back into the dark

wrong idea; an incorrect conception

What we design is hate inside

A misconception

A judgement made (a judgement made)

wear away; become ground down or deteriorate

Monuments built in remembrance of me

But monuments fade, erode, and decay

The memories are all that remain

out-of-date; obsolete or old-fashioned

We are reborn

My beliefs are not antiquated

We are the hope

saved item; a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

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We are the remnant

We the remnant

firmness of purpose; bring to an end; settle conclusively

The path I walk (the path I walk)

I walk it with my own resolve

When darkness falls (when darkness falls)

cut; set or keep apart

I will bid farewell

Sever the tie

Is this what I am?

give up; forsake, leave behind

Abandon the safety

Of mindless following

smother; conceal or hide

Cry out for relief and give me peace

There must be a way to stifle this decay

There must be a means, means to an end

unwillingness; (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

This changes in my soul

What was once reluctance soon becomes the will to grow

And I would not have it any other way

restriction; the state of being physically constrained

Take control

No more wallowing, battle my constraints

I'm the sinner and the saint

reach; to gain with effort

As I slip down into this despair (into this despair)

There is nothing to attain

What victory? (What victory?)

cover; one celestial body obscures another

Where the weight of my burden

Eclipses my resolve

This broken path I've chosen

remorseful; feeling sorrow for wrongdoing

I defy you, you've become the crownless king

The penitent pray for the downfall

Of your, of your reign

challenge; resist or confront with resistance

Where the virtuous can't be found

Defy you, to the depths you descend

I defy you, to the death we defend

take back; fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

We will prevail (we will prevail)

Revoke the needless way of affliction

Revoke and abandon

honor; something given or done as an expression of esteem

This love with hate

A tribute to the fallen

Your choice is made

secret; a flock of coots

Subordination of the need to expound

Coordinated covert invasion, the system

Appropriation of a subversive sound

deter; turn away from by persuasion

In the crosshairs of a weapon

That dissuades our brains

The target is in sight

gradual reduction; erosion by friction

I want you to suffer as I have suffered

This is a war of attrition and I won't cease

Nothing can change what you've done

apathy; unbiased impartial unconcern

Quiet distress

We can't afford indifference

Hearing screams and cries

indifference; an absence of emotion or enthusiasm

I'm watching, watching a world die

We greet this with apathy

No longer consumed by self

dominate; be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

Weep no more (weep no more)

We will prevail (we will prevail)

Grieve no more (grieve no more)

refuse; elude, especially in a baffling way

Bow down to no one

Resist the system

Lost in uncertainty, divided in our strife

unconsciousness; the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Go!

Forever falling into oblivion

The darkness crawls forward

hardship; a state of misfortune or affliction

Come on!

Through adversity there is redemption

With passion, fighting I am unbroken

release from blame; grant remission of a sin to

As we, drink of life

Absolve me, through your suffering

Make me feel serenity, when all is revealed

swearing; blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)

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It's my blasphemy

Hoping not to wake

violation; the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

There's no one to blame

No one to blame, for our transgressions

You teach me

protester; a person who dissents from some established policy

By my own volition, isolated and set free

The symptom of your violence and the dissident in me

Untrusting of the promise of a figurehead to lead

argument; a point asserted as part of an argument

How many years controlled by fear? The fallacies run deep

Contention (contention) diverted (diverted)

Democracy is deserted

hate; find repugnant

Don't waste a moment

Are you loathed to seek the truth

You must choose

strong belief; an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

Replacing fear with a truth, a truth beyond denial

I've lost faith in these hollow convictions

I need something more (I need something more)

fight; noisy quarrel

So bite the hand that feeds

Altercations spread through violent sanction

Mother give your children to the beast

extend; cause to continue or prevail

All for what cause?

To perpetuate their endless wars

We can't allow this to stand

not active; lacking in energy or will

Their cries are blown away with the wind

How passive can we be before humanity is lost?

Turning our backs on those who need love

ignore; refuse to acknowledge

Can you feel their agony?

In a world that feeds on disregard

Heal the broken hearted

standstill; subject to a stalemate

Vilified anyone who tried to expose the bitterness that you hide

Now you're caught in your own stalemate

No one left to manipulate

approve; give sanction to

So bite the hand that feeds

Altercations spread through violent sanction

Mother give your children to the beast

fill completely, soak; infuse or fill completely

Blood of generations

Saturate our roots

But history conceals the truth

disagree; withhold assent

We are compromised

They have silenced our dissent

A dull complacency covers humanity

orderly; characterized by order and planning

A dull complacency covers humanity

This systematic hate of deceit

How many more will die

overused; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

See through device and incompetence

Suspect and trite, don't empower them

The earth shall quake and moan with thunder

complaint; express grief verbally

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The sound of cries and lament

Spiraling into this descent

well-known; having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

Now the time has passed to mourn our sorrow

The prominent will bow

To their knees as they will call for mercy

conflicting; not in agreement or harmony

Kill all your sympathy

In this discordant nation

Yield to and bend the knee

contentedness; the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

Anyone can see undeniably

Diversion is the new disorder, forced complacency

Assimilated to the syndicate

use; eat immoderately

You son of man can't you see what burns inside me

This fire will consume as the flames purify

With the peace that passes understanding

pride; overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Recognizing the life you claim to live

Normalizing your arrogance

I've got no more to give

fragment; a broken piece of a brittle artifact

You speak in shards of broken glass

You punish me to try to take away my dignity

calm down; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Rotting and corroding

Nothing seems to pacify it

It feels like an eternity

mysterious; of an obscure nature

Gazing at the horizon, lost in a cryptic majesty

Gazing at the horizon, so long

illusion; (psychology) an incorrect belief that is held in spite of evidence to the contrary

We have learned by making choices

After persecution and delusion

We have severed a solution

call forth; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

It must be now, we must resolve

Invoke the strength, turn the tide

Start right now

come out; come out into view, as from concealment

Into dismay

Emerge from the pain again

I swear this is not the end