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Sing me a soft song To send me to sleep I can’t stand another night Hearing this lullaby: weep There’s a monster inside You fought for years But now it’s multiplied Fueled by fear It swallows the good And nourishes the bad Never have I hated Something so invisible to my eye I can only imagine what it’s doing to you On the inside Universe’s sweet irony The baby dies first Not a day goes by That can quench my thirst Longing for justice For the underdog family When will it be our turn? They say ‘what goes around comes around’-- How come we keep getting burned? We’ve served our time And a little more too But we’re thrown back in the slammer Does that sound just to you? When does the world stop spinning? When does the pain end? Why does it strike as soon as we’re on the mend? The more the merrier, But it sends evil’s ratio askew. The choice wasn’t ours It’s what we were born into. Still I wouldn’t trade it You can’t know love without loss Still I wish I could save it My family in a locket, Not for God to toss.
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Nov 22, 2012
Nov 22, 2012 at 1:35 AM UTC
Locket
Sing me a soft song To send me to sleep I can’t stand another night Hearing this lullaby: weep There’s a monster inside You fought for years But now it’s multiplied Fueled by fear It swallows the good And nourishes the bad Never have I hated Something so invisible to my eye I can only imagine what it’s doing to you On the inside Universe’s sweet irony The baby dies first Not a day goes by That can quench my thirst Longing for justice For the underdog family When will it be our turn? They say ‘what goes around comes around’-- How come we keep getting burned? We’ve served our time And a little more too But we’re thrown back in the slammer Does that sound just to you? When does the world stop spinning? When does the pain end? Why does it strike as soon as we’re on the mend? The more the merrier, But it sends evil’s ratio askew. The choice wasn’t ours It’s what we were born into. Still I wouldn’t trade it You can’t know love without loss Still I wish I could save it My family in a locket, Not for God to toss.
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35/Gender Fluid/American
Nov 22, 2012
Nov 22, 2012 at 1:35 AM UTC
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