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The walls all fell away

leaving me stranded in the debris

a broken hollowed out shell

The pain of becoming a little less naive.

Viewing the world through a new set of eyes

Searching for a truth that I'll never find

Dissipating words

that they told to keep us in line

and turn us on ourselves

Create, destroy, the natural order

I've been down that road too many times

It's starting to wither down, and there's no fucking shame in that

Phobia appeals to the ignorant mass

Media designed to make it last

Reduced to an image, demonized

Now you're something that you despise

Fucked from an early age

Made into a product of fear

of what we can't understand

abuse through supply and demand

There's no way out of this labyrinth

It's only down from here, so bite the bullet

Relentless parasites

feeding into generations of contempt

Erasure of the self

blinded into a world that can't make sense

But who gives a fuck, if it happens in the distance?

Discount tragedies, what we live and breathe

Phobia appeals to the ignorant mass

Media designed to make it last

Reduced to an image, demonized

Now you're something that you despise

I spent my whole fucking life

in a dream state that I couldn't see

Anything to get me out

of this life that I never wanted for me

And I broke myself on every fucking lie

and burned every bridge, severed every tie

The stare of a million eyes

gazing far beyond what they know

no depth in a void

and no purpose for those who never go

What a fucking joke we've made of this life

And when there's nothing we can do, we regress into

Phobia appeals to the ignorant mass

Media designed to make it last

Reduced to an image, demonized

Now you're something that you despise

Humanity suffers for its mistakes

Apologies fall apart, it's too late

Massive hostility imposes our fate

when society shames away those that we hate