Just a Ride

Wicker wishes hold the flames at bay
 No water for the martyr
 Oh, what a shame
 Progress is a riddle of delays
 Serendipitously arranged
 Watch the embers wither into grey
 And the filament fade
 Oh, and the filament fade
 It is the cost for causing choruses
 To erupt in front of stages in the dark
 It is the cure between the words
 And what we thought we heard as such
 
 Cleverness and sleight of tongue
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 Ordinarily, we'd find a better fit
 And organize the messages' intent
 With words and scenes insinuations
 Emotional manipulation throughout
 For no good reason I'd deceive you all
 Just to get the point across
 I have been a hypocrite and
 I am certain I have lied
 I have been to nothingness and
 Barely bothered to survive
 I laughed when your levy broke to
 Shed tears when nobody rose to say
 "It's just a ride"
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 Wearing the weight of the words we never spoke of
 Turning the weathered side to read their bones
 The trap that was set was flawed, at best
 The trap that was set was flawed
 Programmed to make ghosts of all of us
 Oh, time
 Gathering us with open arms
 To feed these hungry birds of war
 Splitting the line between two sides but I am neither one
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 Usher the windblown into the silos, dead
 
 Treated like cattle while we listen for what's next
 Secretly we'll take its pulse
 Dropping from the eaves
 Tourniquet the pace as the rhythm bleeds
 Oh, time
 Flattering us to see ourselves as something more than we define
 Where does it leave us when we cry?
 It's not any skin of mine
 Only locked in these days as our wonder dissipates
 How did we wait so long to call out
 Hello?
 Don't you know we know you know?
 Don't you know?
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 You were brave with a free-talking mind
 And a voice that is still a cry for life
 And no matter what we want
 We want to be loved
 Yes, we were here
 We were afraid
 We paid them for the right to commit our own ego suicide
 But I believe it's just a ride