This is a song for the average American.
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Let go of your realities
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(middle class small town mentalities):
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The truths - your truths -
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That even now dominate your little world.
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There are lives, and hopes, and dreams -
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Other breathing human beings
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Whose existence you ignore
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With "harmless" jokes, and words, and more,
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But you say that it's their choice,
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As if that makes it all okay.
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Well it's not okay.
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Our nation's choking on apathy.
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They wage a war you never had to declare
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And sacrifice with their blood, love, and tears.
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You've not the mind
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To see the world through their eyes.
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Your true colors show.
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You don't fucking care.
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You talk of world communities,
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Oblivious to what that really means:
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That you, yes, you,
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Truly have the biggest part in this to play.
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The ideals you so praise rest on one contingency:
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You find some untapped empathy.
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You've not the time to see the hurt in their eyes.
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You don't even know.
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Well I fucking care.
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We proclaim greatness
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And drown the logic that informs us
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That "greatest" does not necessarily
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Entail adequate or sufficient,
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And this vocabulary reinforces our lethargy
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By implying that improvement
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Is a relic of the past.
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Freedoms are not guaranteed in preserved ink,
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But realized in the everyday relationships of a community.
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Hope screams out for life
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In the vein of choice
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And each to his own.
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I am disgusted by your blatant lack of care
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For your fellow human beings
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Suffering because of you,
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And I don't blame you for who you are,
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But for not attempting
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To try to change yourself this day.
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This is my truth of your liberty:
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The dangerous doctrine of empathy.
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This is a song for the average American
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On who our future now rests upon,
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And I fucking care.
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The Dangerous Doctrine Of Empathy
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Thought Riot |