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I grew up on heroes old and new Thinking there was no wrong they could do But get rid of rose glasses and they're the worst And I woke up to a clergy that turned. out to be cursed Now I can't trust people I see On the internet or TV Because half of my childhood celebrities Turned out to be pedos, grifters, and Nazis Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Send them off with a middle finger up And hope next time you have better luck Can't trust the storytellers that made your fantasies They want you and queers like you deceased Can't play pretend in a superheroes game When all the directors fund your personal bane I wouldn't trust the beliefs that raised me Because I've grown old enough to peek and see That its foundations are corrupted by empire One more genocide and I'll set the **** pulpit on fire Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Push them away from who you see And rethink all those memories I once trusted some political heads Thinking they had good interests in their stead But red or blue they all bomb and starve and censor Now I have to try to get my own beliefs and center I blindly trusted the medical process Until I saw prejudice and the reproducibility crisis I blindly followed the worship of success and riches Until I saw the dead that world left in the ditches Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Shoot them yourself if that's what you need Because how else can you move on and succeed History was taught to me in one way Every account matching up to the day But I looked back and saw a library Of stories the classroom never did see The people who raised me said they were saints And that's the picture their friends all paint But get home at night and you'll find out What the kids don't know to talk about Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Never look back for a second glance Don't give the ******* another chance Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Because if power corrupts and they're infested Don't reminisce long enough to get invested Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Throw down your celebrities and your idols Be your own hero and disregard titles
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Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 10:45 PM UTC
Hero's Death
I grew up on heroes old and new Thinking there was no wrong they could do But get rid of rose glasses and they're the worst And I woke up to a clergy that turned. out to be cursed Now I can't trust people I see On the internet or TV Because half of my childhood celebrities Turned out to be pedos, grifters, and Nazis Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Send them off with a middle finger up And hope next time you have better luck Can't trust the storytellers that made your fantasies They want you and queers like you deceased Can't play pretend in a superheroes game When all the directors fund your personal bane I wouldn't trust the beliefs that raised me Because I've grown old enough to peek and see That its foundations are corrupted by empire One more genocide and I'll set the **** pulpit on fire Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Push them away from who you see And rethink all those memories I once trusted some political heads Thinking they had good interests in their stead But red or blue they all bomb and starve and censor Now I have to try to get my own beliefs and center I blindly trusted the medical process Until I saw prejudice and the reproducibility crisis I blindly followed the worship of success and riches Until I saw the dead that world left in the ditches Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Shoot them yourself if that's what you need Because how else can you move on and succeed History was taught to me in one way Every account matching up to the day But I looked back and saw a library Of stories the classroom never did see The people who raised me said they were saints And that's the picture their friends all paint But get home at night and you'll find out What the kids don't know to talk about Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Never look back for a second glance Don't give the ******* another chance Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Because if power corrupts and they're infested Don't reminisce long enough to get invested Some times you have to let your heroes die Give a wave and a nod goodbye Throw down your celebrities and your idols Be your own hero and disregard titles
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21/Gender Fluid/Delaware
Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 10:45 PM UTC
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