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Circle

Wind the clock

Set it back

Way, way, back

Way back to times before.

Before the battle and after the war

Make it bright to see the light

Feel the pleasure

Feel the pain

Sun fades, moon wanes.

Everything stays the same

But keeps movin forward

Draggin feet on the carousel

Tryin to slow the movement.

Blind to the revolution.

The inevitable return

Closer to the end,

Closer to the beginning

Big bang, big crush

Babe in an incubator,

Old man in a respirator

Travel back to move forward

Return and arrive in the same instant

Fast or slow

As long as it moves

and doesn’t go anywhere

just don’t stop.

Crash! Break!

Break out of the circle

Fight against the tumultuous monotony

Of its suffocating embrace

Concentric circles

Drawing in closer and closer

To a cage in the middle

Walls are closing in

What is outside the circle?

Why can’t we get out?

Who are the gate keepers?

Where are they hiding?

How will we break through?

When will we be free?

Dark days and white knights

Lapping life from the doggy dish

Wearing the wind in our eyes

Think it’s a disguise

But truth is transparent

And the façade is opaque beneath

Get out of the circle

Break the line

Stand still and be delivered outside

Be free

But be wary

For outside lie perils unknown

Sanctity, Sacrifice, Solice

Found in the binding of

Saintly moments.

For it shall be

The summations of good intentions

Which will break us out

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