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Beware! Beware! The great Beast of the World Beware! Beware! They’ve come They’ve come They’ve come Beware! Beware! The mighty, ferocious roar Their anger have no limits Their hunger have no bounds Beware! Beware! They’re lurking everywhere They lives in those we scorn And within those ***** throngs Beware! Beware! They’ve come to get us all! What have we done to deserve this fate? Such innocence yet we fall Beware! Beware! Gather your gold Gather your letters Gather your shoes Your bread and your butter Such savagery Such monsters Flaming tongues Knife blade garbles Seeping into every nook and cranny What have we done? But give you a place to sleep? What have we done? But give you a way to live? We are like you Working in the fields We only reap a different harvest Of course not just coal and fuels What have we done? But give you recognition? What have we done? But put you where you belong? Your tears are woven into our blankets We wear your blood in stone Don’t tell us we stand on the same rock and soil We live a different birth What have we done? But give you food to put on your table? Of grey water And rock hard rye That we found in a rotting corner of our pantry Out of the goodness of our hearts Oh why have you come To lock us in your cages We don’t belong where you live Don’t come don’t run And tear us into shreds We only did what was right Don’t come knocking at our front doors With your jagged claws and yellow teeth And those swollen eyes and lips Don’t come and trample All over our front lawn And take what is rightfully ours Heel! Heel! I say! What has gotten into your head? We have worked together so well You and I What has become Of dog And his Master?
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Mar 14, 2021
Mar 14, 2021 at 10:59 AM UTC
The Cries of the Unworthy
Beware! Beware! The great Beast of the World Beware! Beware! They’ve come They’ve come They’ve come Beware! Beware! The mighty, ferocious roar Their anger have no limits Their hunger have no bounds Beware! Beware! They’re lurking everywhere They lives in those we scorn And within those ***** throngs Beware! Beware! They’ve come to get us all! What have we done to deserve this fate? Such innocence yet we fall Beware! Beware! Gather your gold Gather your letters Gather your shoes Your bread and your butter Such savagery Such monsters Flaming tongues Knife blade garbles Seeping into every nook and cranny What have we done? But give you a place to sleep? What have we done? But give you a way to live? We are like you Working in the fields We only reap a different harvest Of course not just coal and fuels What have we done? But give you recognition? What have we done? But put you where you belong? Your tears are woven into our blankets We wear your blood in stone Don’t tell us we stand on the same rock and soil We live a different birth What have we done? But give you food to put on your table? Of grey water And rock hard rye That we found in a rotting corner of our pantry Out of the goodness of our hearts Oh why have you come To lock us in your cages We don’t belong where you live Don’t come don’t run And tear us into shreds We only did what was right Don’t come knocking at our front doors With your jagged claws and yellow teeth And those swollen eyes and lips Don’t come and trample All over our front lawn And take what is rightfully ours Heel! Heel! I say! What has gotten into your head? We have worked together so well You and I What has become Of dog And his Master?
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F/Singapore
Mar 14, 2021
Mar 14, 2021 at 10:59 AM UTC
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