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Unbelievable

You started a revolution and I got caught in the craze

Your words created an ocean and I drowned in the waves

 

Promised different and better to the people outside

Gave no indication you had something to hide

 

Speeches destroyed mountains and men

We were all behind you with sword and pen

 

We fought battles against something we didn't get

You didn't give us a reason to not trust you, as of yet

 

Waging a war that we never thought to take up

Was it cool aid we were drinking in that red solo cup

 

Word of you spread like smoke

You said we were no longer such a joke

 

We were a force to contend with, that's what you said

We all believed you, until we started turning up dead

 

You put pipe bombs made of pipe dreams in our head and set them off

The ideas that dissipated with the smoke made us cough

 

Those promises you made guilded mistakes we now know

Vibrant colors and bright lights can't mask a ****** show

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gwendolyn-mary-ida-johnson
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Dec 7, 2015
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