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Apr 2017
When everybody's ******* at you and you're acting so strong,
Faking those emotions and putting up a weak facade seems wrong
And when you try to tell yourself you don't give a ****
You swallow your words so hard, you can barely eat it.
'Coz the world don't care if you put your heart on what you do,
They will always find something to say about you.
How you should act, how you should sing
How your auto-tune ***** but praises others who do the same thing.

It was stupid, it was foolish for them to speak
When they don't feel how hard it is to work your way up to the peak.
You keep on climbing up fairly on your own
But others below you would pull your feet to lift themselves, just go on.
Hey, we all know the world's not all glitter and gold.
And we discovered that while we are growing old.
Still, we keep on climbing 'coz up there is where we should be.
We keep on climbing, clawing ourselves up so the world can see
That we're not gods and bullets will still **** the **** out of us
We're not gods and with their words, they can wreck us
Like facing a train head-on while you are tied on the railroad
Like running 50 miles with this ****** big load
But we keep on doing it 'cause we love what we do
And we do what we love hoping that they'll like it too.
Karl Allen
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Karl Allen  Philippines
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