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It failed to explode

Talk is cheap

An euphoric reflex

As tensions overheat

Action comes cheap

Romance and emancipate

Romance and emancipate

As tensions overheat

As tensions overheat

Define liberty

But a short-lived reprieve until

It's once again displaced?

Grievances cease?

To hang on tenterhooks until

To hang on tenterhooks until

It's once again displaced?

It's once again displaced?

It failed to depose

It stalled at the coming to blows

It failed to explode

Explode, explode

Celebratory in the debris

Deceptive empirical collapse

Yet it failed to atone

It failed to explode

Sadly illusive in its epoch-making

Pocket change for a moment of peace

Because it failed to disown

It failed to explode

There's always a hole to fill

Circumventing convictions

Autocratic traits are a constant

If at first (to appease) with a different spin

It failed to explode

Outside watchers beat their brows

Nurturing vested interests

Is the infinite struggle worth it

When there's always a hole to fill?

It failed to explode

It failed to explode