The end is near, that's what I hear. A world of fear, felt all too dear! I listen to the Lord's prediction, derelict in jolly cheer. I know it's coming to a close. It has been prophesied to throes! An endless line of godly chose to cleanse and mend our sinful woes. Repent! Return to who is whole; and bent upon to save the soul! And flee from he who madly stole the treasured, measured, servile role.

Every moment passes like a pressing dream. I'm firing on all engines but run out of steam. There's people all around, but none to hear me scream; a problem in translation, no one sees, it seems. Sitting in the middle of a speeding train; every eye is blinded, every face is pain. I reach out to embrace you, and to my disdain, you recoil in rage to leave me 'lone again. What did I do to you to deserve this life? No one bothered to tell me empathy was strife! I merely did what I thought would both satisfy, and make me feel like I'm no longer dead inside. Preaching to a choir about killing time-- the audience is deaf, and cannot read the mimes! The world is sitting calmly list'ing to the rhymes, and no one realizes that's the greatest crime! Always speak of love, but only offer hate. I try to reach out to you, but it's just too late. We speak a different language, word's can't pierce the gate, no way to make you understand, so I just wait. All are in this world, but who has truly lived? So many words unspoken, because rules persist on what you can say when, and how to market it! Should we abide by rules that stand just to restrict all our minds and feelings into mangled balls? No one wants to handle your life if smeared in gall, for no one else is able to see them at all. We all are born in bondage to our social call. "Prisoners of pagentry and normalcy!" "Social slaves who only mature to infancy!" "Only act in public ways that cater to me!" I don't think this is how the world is meant to be.

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[indistinct rambling and equipment checks] Shut up! It's time to start! Okay, is everyone focused up now? Yes! (no.) All right! Let's do this! One. Two. Three. Four. Go ahead and shut the door. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Learn it now, and you're too late. Give it to me, give it hard. You know me, and we'll go far, go to the store. Give me back more. Got to go, 'cause you don't know, Give it to me!

There are ideas that are trapped inside my mind- feelings I can't express, the words too hard to find. There are rules surrounding, all are blind to see! Find our world's oppressed, I find depressing me... But I'm right here waiting, standing still for you! I am patient and I trust you'll see it through! I'm anticipating you for all our lives; but in you I sense, though, you don't want to survive! Ever watching for the time for you to flee. Ever anxious for your lies to me to meet. Anticipating your cowardly retreat! Always waiting for you to deliver me! It's just been too long, since someone wants to stay! I'm sorry, but I cannot treat you any other way! It seems like just a song, that we've all forgot the tune! It seems like you're just pretending, like all the others do! So, Please be patient with me, I can't stand the hush! The silence screams inside my ears, because I love too much. Every moment passing is a weight to fill me up with dread, so tell me that I'm beautiful, or some day you may find me dead...