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We learn truth from glossy pages and history from yellowed ones The mouth of man can never be trusted and the eyes of the mass will never be true How do we look beyond our scrying crystal screen Suffering from long distance sympathy and rose-tinted apathy The sun sets on every horizon and the media men pack their scripts It has happened before, it will happen again and I don’t know where on the line I’m standing in
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Jan 31
Jan 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM UTC
Synthetic diamonds cut just as rough
We learn truth from glossy pages and history from yellowed ones The mouth of man can never be trusted and the eyes of the mass will never be true How do we look beyond our scrying crystal screen Suffering from long distance sympathy and rose-tinted apathy The sun sets on every horizon and the media men pack their scripts It has happened before, it will happen again and I don’t know where on the line I’m standing in
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Jan 31
Jan 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM UTC
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