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Anticipation

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Burnout!

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life

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information age ambivalence
provides tidal waves of distraction

entertainment choices expanding 
demanding time, drawing energy

personal cues, rub Aladdin's lamp  
to combat the blues

to initiate a sleeping beast
AI does the rest

the job requires a recall for emergencies
everybody is on call 24-7. 

Please! Let me be
i want to be free

most people view life
to be about self-satisfaction

but now we have lost democracy
found a neurotic despotic, fool

birthed the greatest kleptocracy
the world has ever known

day after day
we get hammered 

by news of governmental power 
being abused

getting yet another dose 
of a 2025 plan 

to take ...America back
to stone age want to be's

Where might makes right
and civil rights consists of 

the ruler makes the rules
more for me, none for you

when is this * ever going to end


Going deep, can barely sleep
trying to escape the daily grind

in a world where wrong is right 
and right is wrong...

battlegrounds surround us
a struggle every day and night

finding... 

freedom extends to four walls
and pretends to be free

color and social status
claim the rest

what about the soldiers of us
who died for this country

i think they're being erased
to make space for bigotry

i drop down on my knees
bring back ancestral memories

remember as a man climbing
through the falling stardust

just back to where i came from 
to be just who i am
 
we can't give up
not without a fight


C2

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