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It was a difficult lesson but alcohol Was what taught me how to fall To scratch and claw to a perch so high It's hard but I sigh I've gotta say goodbye From here on I will walk this lonely road But I can't linger on what the globe showed When faces turn fake and mistake You for weak so they reach for the stake Integrity broken I'm real among fakes And if we don't stop and slam on the breaks We'll be a mystery lost to the pages of time And that would be our greatest crime Stealing time from our youth We're not ready to face that truth Because as eyes open and souls have awoken We're shaken by a world so lonely and broken Full of callous souls coming out of havens so craven That perhaps there's nothing left to be savin' But I'm not quite ready to give up that fight To strive for a future that I know is right And I put my hand on my heart In the face of evil that pulls us apart A wolf convincing sheep to fight each other Sister against sister, brother against brother This devilry is a result of a lack of chivalry But at the end of the day it will never shrivel me I'm strong enough to prove I belong And you won't be able to say I'm wrong But the media hypes gossip and slander It's a real lack of candor And it's not what I stand for And I demand more And I'll man picket signs Even if I'm pickin' fines But here are the signs That the times are changing And it's rebellion we're staging We're the minute men Destined to take out the senate when It's nothing but a hall of corruption And this is the eruption The walls are breaking and crumbling And the ancient fossils are stumbling But this is an earthquake of your making Because of the honesty you were faking But it was a mistake you were making And now that's a fact that you're facing Because when sanity unites It will always win the night
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