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Silverfish

Silverfish

Staring Down Defeat

Stubborn, love is blind
Charging forward like a bull
Staring down defeat
 
Crying at the real
Shattered is the shielded soul
Fight against the end
 
Inevitable
Means nothing to a dreamer
Glimpsing at their wish

(2013)

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