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There is something in the aching day

That calls to you to sever ties, the honored few you call upon to stay

You hold them true, you feel they will not break

In their deeds you see the philosophy and the steel

Mortal deeds that hold their weight for the grave

Resigned, you see their lives - withdraw

Fall on severed ties

With bonds that bleed, undone they beg to leave

You watch your friends in thought and deed all fall away

Under the weight of the steel and its philosophy

To family, nothing new and nothing left to say

Under the lies and grief they turn away

There is no bond, on this earth, that your fate can conceal

Whatever your creed, let violence... wash away

Resigned, you watch their lives - withdraw

Fall on severed ties

With eyes that weep, bonds, undone now bleed

All your feelings in thought and deed you led yourself astray

On leaden knees, that reeling falls to earth