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Survival

From the moment of birth

Our instincts of survival

Bring us down to earth

We dream of the fairy tale

world we wish to live

Hoping to be happy and

learning to give

 

When we reach our peak

and buld the person we

want to be

Something happens to

our security of survival

and our friends become

our rivals

 

Rolling, Rolling, over and over

again

back to the bottom

for another spin

 

Our Minds unclear of

the person we built to be

Instincts of survival have

taken over you see

control is lost

Survival at any cost

 

Aimlessly we wander

Hurting the ones we love

Until our thoughts we

launder

The world again becomes

our dove

 

Repeated over and over

again

Each time the threat of

survival blows in the

wind.

 

You see we are really

just animals with the

ability to think

but we forget it all

until our survival

becomes almost extinct

 

Its an understanding

We all need to have

because survival will

dissapate for all mankind

Unless we reach for

the star we were

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