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To the people making life from lust, abusing trust, and the fuckers who made fools out of the best of us:
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You've swayed the public thought that they're all that they've bought, and otherwise they're ugly people that
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will soon be dust.
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And to the schools that brought us up and had us 'socialized', teaching us the world through hall passes and
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single file lines. We are discouraged to ask questions or to raise a fist. No wonder nobody can tell there's
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something so much fucking bigger than this.
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And we say everyday that we won't grow up to live the lives that they do, and yet we only walk on footsteps
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that they set for us instead of clearing paths towards promised lands we dreamt about, and better worlds we
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read about.
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We leave our higher educations that we all 'must' get with a signature stamped paper and a mound of debt.
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The bank has got us by the throat and then we're forced to settle for the jobs we hate, 9 to 5, 40 hours,
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40 years til the day we are too weak to work, too frail to play. No friends or lovers because they've all
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passed away. We've waited for this day all of our lives long, and on our death bed the stereo plays our
favorite teenage anthem song.
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We sing along.
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And to white, middle-class, suburban kids: start dealing with your privileges. Smash your TV, read a book, or
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see the world instead. Enjoy the simple things in life because you can, like your family, friends, community,
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and local bands.
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If there's one thing in your life that you'll never forget, its that we're dead in the future but we're not
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dead yet. Your life starts right now so start acting like it, or else you'll wake up one day feeling like a
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silhouette.