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Useless Empire

There they sit making believe a piece of paper gives you immunity and makes you holy God hae you the world you spit it back in his son's face like you built the empire with your own hands you damn a man for not bieng educated you laugh at the working man God forbid if you have to work for a dolllar given the world, you want more living off your parents like the scum you are partying everyday, sitting around and wasting away beer bottles, drunks, bisexual orgies the Roman Empire is alive and well in L.A. forgive my eyes for seeing the truth I'm the cabdriver looking through the rearview mirror I'm watching the scum and sleaze move about I'm wiping the blood off the back seat I sit and watch as the thrash piles up I see a woman, she believes she is happy praising her friends and family like the god and goddesses they are not i see her stepdad sleazing about seeing other women who are not his wife unfaithul and uncaring, he yells at his wife believing the noise will drown out reason all the education and borrowed money in the world doesn't change the fact he is useless and disgusting money and education don't hide the truth my eyes don't see in vien despite the pain I know now, the woman I once loved is just another useless pile of thrash forgive me for working for my dollar I'm just human, trying be myself I don't want to be piled up with the other thrash

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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