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Promise is Toxic

Chained by locks, a faithful mans heart stops, watching as another mans hand lines up the chalk
It’s time to take a walk, through memory lane
Watching as others die and more go insane
Welcome to my world, my dark domain
Take another hit in a crowded cage, losing all hope in being saved, and all that is craved,
Is the stuff to be made
The stuff to be used
The people are lied too, cheated and abused
All are confused, none are soothed, not even by the power, not even by the truth
But what can you do?
There’s nothing to lose. Break up the hearts with no will to chose
Take another breath and inhale the fumes
The toxins combining in a deathly fuse
All look alike, all look dead
All have that wasteful wonder and the pounding in their head
Look at their tracks, and how their bodies react
Their heart in shock and their minds outta whack
There’s no going back, there’s no turning around
There’s no one to blame but the vicious crowd
It will get loud, your ears will bleed
The promises you will forget and will never keep
It seems like you’re pulled in too deep
Too deep to be reached
The electric shocks on high and the security is breached
You’re throats too tight; you cannot speak
You can’t move muscle; you can’t even squeak
Look at the eyes, of the ones you’ve let down
The ones always waiting, for you to come around
You’ll never see, your eyes glued shut
You’re never tough
They may never give up
But you’re not strong enough
So keep taking, keep losing
Keep fucking up and keep abusing
All of the life you have been given
Just to feel alive even though you’re already livin’
You’ve already been driven, onto a ledge
Standing so close to the edge
Line up your soldiers and plunge Into the depths
The waves will come and you’ll be swept, out to sea, out of reach,
Always to be dragged under by the promises you never keep

(2013)

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