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Kilpre​́​z - Why Hope For Better Things

from SPLIT​.​AM by Clifford Hoyt

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We’re all born with high hopes
But somewhere along the way
 
We lose that sense of light
Exchanged for a prayer of mediocrity
Please don’t let the bad things happen
Please just let me, get through the day
 
Day after day
Week after week
If I just get through this
I can sleep and eat
 
What a worthless excuse for existence
Sleeping your days away
In a conscious haze
 
Dreamers of the world unite
We have naught to lose but our chains
We will fix this place
 
Rise up towards the unknown
With an explorer’s mind
Leave your doubts behind
 
Take the fight to them
Inspire others
We shall have ourselves a revolution
 
Why hope for better things
When the world seems hellbent
On burning itself to the ground?
 
How can we even go on?
Pretending we’re not on the brink of total destruction
 
Things may seem bleak for the moment
Allow yourself to see the bigger picture
So many of us care
So many of us are fighting for this
 
Giving up won’t achieve a thing
Wouldn’t you rather stand for something
Than die thinking “oh what if?”
 
No hope!
No flicker of light
No ember or spark of humanity
 
Just the guilt
Collective guilt and grief
Yet we still have so much more to lose
 
Patronise someone else
We’re powerless against the powers that be
 
There’s no way to go but down
 
Bound by the deconstruction of self
Where does a collective even play a part
In an egocentric economy
Reliant on self destruction?
 
Why hope for better things
When we can demand them
Fight for them
Claim the world as our own
 
Why hope for better things
When we can take back what's ours
Money and power
Illusions the bureaucrats
claimed as their own
 
Why hope for better things
When we can hit them where it hurts
Hit them where it counts
 
Why hope for better things
When we can demand them


 

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from SPLIT​.​AM, released May 13, 2022

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