When the world asks for your innocence
You pay for it in bloodshed, in violence
Bartered, borrowed, wagered, and sold
It’s loss lasts forever, worth it’s weight in gold
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When the world asks for your giddy young hope
You lose your emotions to help you cope
When it asks for your virtue, your morals, your pride
You give them unwillingly, dying inside
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When the world asks for the wishes and the dreams you once had
You relinquish them slowly, your worldview becomes ironclad
Clad in the fury of all that you’ve lost
That the world pulled from your fighting fingers, looked at once, and then tossed
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When the world asks for the last drop of your blood and last breath from your lungs
You squeeze them out hopelessly, your last insult unsung
When the world asks for your heartless corpse
You hand it right over, immediately, of course
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But then you see something that makes you come alive
You see it and suddenly something starts twitching inside
The world is angry and ugly and blue
But you have hope again, sparkling, brand new
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Your eyes register color once again as long ago
Your heart that you sacrificed is now aglow
You break free from the spell, free from the agony
Uninhibited, pure, blissful mutiny
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They wrestle you back into your custom made cage
The world once again demands payment, full of rage
You’ve left it’s forces, for once come undone
For this the punishment has already begun
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But as much as the world takes and yanks and commandeers
You are protected by the thing that you hold dear
The thing that you love will be the thing that saves your life
You act obedient but it lays at your side, your hidden secret knife
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Whenever you need a fresh breath of air
Though opportunities are few and rare
You turn back to the thing and unleash its power
Knowing that for now, at least right now, you can bask in its shower
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