THEATRE OF PAIN

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We speak in many languages,
Spoken in one accent of fear.
Life was never meant to be complex.
So what's killing us is not what it seems.
Trapped on the absence of truth,
We are simply doomed in forced simplicity.

Blind, as natural as it should be.
And when it comes to understanding,
Guess we only got a rebranding.
So the circle still stays in shape.
The eternal cycle of pressure.

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