Silently, I bought a liar's dream
Deep waters for stars
Serenity for success
Believing a goal is there to be reached
A life relieved of circumstance

Cheating myself for an extra moment of sleep
I paved my roads
But they lead only to places I hate
I cheated myself for a second of memory
For the good things they said that come
To those who wait

But they took our faces
They changed our names
They've mistaken our wishes for long, nameless hours
They burned our pages
& corrupted our songs
On graves they once dug, now they lay flowers

Saying prayers to concrete heavens
But we know that angels don't live here anymore
& the limit must be the limitless sky
Of feelings that we so eagerly ignore

Since they reshaped our faces
& cloned our hearts
Then given back all that we've left to die
Mother, they've taken away our childhood
But they will never take us alive

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