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Saluting the sun though it burns through your eyes To follow your leaders, to covet their lies Stretching your palm and inviting their nails To relinquish the glory that made them so frail To welcome their cruel words and make them your own And ignoring your conscience; so you don't stand alone Treading on hearts as they shatter like glass And they pierce your feet as you run from the past The anger returns you once fought to the ground When you hid what you hated and lost what I found Friends become victims when you kiss them sweet night As you turn to the evil you swore that you'd fight The blood, sweat, and tears that you live