Ashes

Here we stand and face the world
 Renegades of consternation
 Innocent in thought and word
 Ready for a new sensation
 Block up the dam
 Block up the dam
 Close up the well
 To stop it flowing
 Your memory is not preferred
 For that is not the way we're going
 Sliding away from liberty
 To lethargy we fall
 Subsiding again
 Collapsing from the burden of it all
 But time after time
 We believe in better
 Never let a
 Chance pass us by
 And we're sure we'll never
 Fail to notice
 Sign after sign
 That a change is coming
 Time is running
 Out like the tide
 But we think we're on a
 March of progress
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 From ashes we rise
 To ashes we fall
 We cannot disguise
 Our hand in it all
 Here we stand and take the blame
 We thought that this could last forever
 We turned our backs on God again
 But everybody longs for heaven
 Sliding away from vision
 To deficiency we fall
 Subsiding again
 Collapsing from the burden of it all
 But time after time
 We believe in better
 Never let a
 Chance pass us by
 And we're sure we'll never
 Fail to notice
 Sign after sign
 That a change is coming
 Time is running
 Out like the tide
 But we think we're on a
 March of progress
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 It's senseless to justify consensus
 Pretensions to cover up pretences
 The fences are sitting on the fences
 Defenceless to cover our offences
 To cover what we've done
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 Here we stand and face the end
 Apathy alive and growing
 On independence we depend
 But that is not the way we're going
 Sliding away from plenty
 To dependency we fall
 Subsiding again
 Collapsing from the burden of it all
 But time after time
 We believe in better
 Never let a
 Chance pass us by
 And we're sure we'll never
 Fail to notice
 Sign after sign
 That a change is coming
 Time is running
 Out like the tide
 But we think we're on a
 March of progress
 But we think we're on a
 March of progress
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 But we think we're on a
 March of progress