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Is it with sadness you hang your head, or shame? |
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Is it your burden that leaves you bloodstained...? |
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No song, no words, will ease your regret. |
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No drug, no love will let you forget. |
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For they are but fleeting, like words in the wind, |
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Wild nights, sobered by the dawn. |
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For they are without meaning, like honourless men |
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Broken vows laid bare before the dawn. |
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Like a wild dog ensnared, you'll eat yourself free |
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To rejoin the shadow of the hunting jaguar. |
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I once believed I held the answer in the palm of my hand, |
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And toyed with it like a child. |
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No song, no words, will ease your regret. |
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No drug, no love will let you forget. |
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On the brink of self-annihilation, |
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A lightning strike revelation: |
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How easily that we lie for our shallow love and hollow pride, |
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How vainly we do attempt to stem the tide of consciousness, |
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How easily we are led on the merry dance to our death. |
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How willing that we follow to our doom, to our sorrow! |
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How entranced we are by the fire, |
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Or enslaved to our own desires. |
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Human - all too fucking human! |
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Watch the naked ape, |
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Grovelling before the stars, |
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Scratching at the sky. |
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Your trials and tribulations, |
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They reek of self-infatuation. |
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Human - all too fucking human! |
