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It's a beggars lament Of life before never after A ***** dirge from the bottom of a broken heart Plumbed to the depths and left hollow Spewing forth its thick black fuel To burn in the engines of strangers And suffocate the cities Turn greens to mottled greys And decay's dusty brown Coats everything in sight Until all lose their sight And sink into dark pits Despairs and graces Nameless faces Since nobody can recognise their brothers and sisters Past the soot and ashes of their fallen ideals They broke the only law there was Live within your means But paid no heed For greed we shuffled down the mortal coil Until our rotted corpses Became tomorrows oil
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 4:26 AM UTC
The Beggar of Man
It's a beggars lament Of life before never after A ***** dirge from the bottom of a broken heart Plumbed to the depths and left hollow Spewing forth its thick black fuel To burn in the engines of strangers And suffocate the cities Turn greens to mottled greys And decay's dusty brown Coats everything in sight Until all lose their sight And sink into dark pits Despairs and graces Nameless faces Since nobody can recognise their brothers and sisters Past the soot and ashes of their fallen ideals They broke the only law there was Live within your means But paid no heed For greed we shuffled down the mortal coil Until our rotted corpses Became tomorrows oil
luka-love
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 4:26 AM UTC
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