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Severed from sovereignty

This is a sane minds end

Jumping through hoops of hypocrisy

To defer and to defend

Cling to the thorny stem

While staring at the rose

And telling the world it helps

I want to be awake for every hour of sunlight

And aware through the coldest nights

Leave this life behind

Ease my tired mind

Become dependence

Seek your escape

This is your liberation

This is your fate

Become dependence

Seek your escape

Hung from the manmade gallows

This is my fate

No more dependence

No more escape

Free from the man-made gallows

This is my fate