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They applauded on arrival

When we entered the shrine.

We won’t look in their shimmering faces,

We shall rest,

As we lied looking straight in the eyes,

Justifying ourselves with the cause,

And we’ve cut our way with the knives bloody red,

Through the fellows who wandered ahead.

We dismissed those who’d started it all,

Sacrificed the devoted for fame,

We have sold everything just to take a lustful stare

In the mirror on vanity fair.

All we see is darkness,

But our eyes are guided

In the halls on the ascending ladder,

We walk up undoubted.

And we lied looking straight in the eyes,

Justifying ourselves with the cause,

And we’ve cut our way with the knives bloody red,

Through the fellows who wandered ahead.

We dismissed those who’d started it all,

Sacrificed the devoted for fame,

We have sold everything just to take a lustful stare

In the mirror on vanity fair.