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"If you're the least bit sensitive, this world will eat you alive." Is it any wonder then that so many of us want to die? But I gave up a long time ago on suicide Such an ignoble way to say goodbye So if I must go, I want to be beaten by some ******* while defending a woman's honor Shot by an oppressive father for attempting to liberate his daughter Gunned down by the government for standing up for the rights of another I guess you could say, I have dreams of becoming a martyr "Only the good die young" Only through self-sacrifice can you become Deeply ingrained in humanities' collective brain I want to make a difference Before I grow old and insane Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lincoln JFK Jesus Christ Gandhi Joan of Arc Tecumseh And then there's Socrates Somebody help me, help me please I want so badly to die for the sake of a belief But it's all so ****** up now Twisted and torn Sometimes I wish that I was never born And there have been others who felt the same way Vincent Van Gogh Rothko And Hemingway I know it's not fair of me to say They all lead lives wrought with such pain Like Bradley Nowell And Kurt Cobain Some saw it coming Like Mark Twain Freedom really is a double-edged sword After Jack Parsons blew up he left us his words His mom OD'd shortly after having heard Greatness can only last so long in this world And what of Albert Camus? Was it really unplanned? And that poor old Nietzsche Came so unglued at the end And fate is really something How can we comprehend Some lives are surely doomed From the moment they begin
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 1:20 AM UTC
Fate of the Martyr
"If you're the least bit sensitive, this world will eat you alive." Is it any wonder then that so many of us want to die? But I gave up a long time ago on suicide Such an ignoble way to say goodbye So if I must go, I want to be beaten by some ******* while defending a woman's honor Shot by an oppressive father for attempting to liberate his daughter Gunned down by the government for standing up for the rights of another I guess you could say, I have dreams of becoming a martyr "Only the good die young" Only through self-sacrifice can you become Deeply ingrained in humanities' collective brain I want to make a difference Before I grow old and insane Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lincoln JFK Jesus Christ Gandhi Joan of Arc Tecumseh And then there's Socrates Somebody help me, help me please I want so badly to die for the sake of a belief But it's all so ****** up now Twisted and torn Sometimes I wish that I was never born And there have been others who felt the same way Vincent Van Gogh Rothko And Hemingway I know it's not fair of me to say They all lead lives wrought with such pain Like Bradley Nowell And Kurt Cobain Some saw it coming Like Mark Twain Freedom really is a double-edged sword After Jack Parsons blew up he left us his words His mom OD'd shortly after having heard Greatness can only last so long in this world And what of Albert Camus? Was it really unplanned? And that poor old Nietzsche Came so unglued at the end And fate is really something How can we comprehend Some lives are surely doomed From the moment they begin
Dropping names. Freddie Mercury ought to be in there somewhere.
JDK
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 1:20 AM UTC
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