from Underneath

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I know that compassion is all out of fashion,

and anger is all the rage...

Grow up and give in to that cynical spin

that you see on most every page

We all know what's wrong with the system

how the people are puppets and fools.

If they're not strong, it will trick them,

they'll get used up like factory tools:

The kids just give up in those schools...



...yeah, but what is it, really, that's keeping me

from living a life that's true?

When the worries speak louder than wisdom,

it drowns out all the answers I knew,

so I'm tossed on the waves on the surface.

Still, the mystery's dark and deep,

with a much more frightening stillness...

underneath



Hopelessness always comes easy.

But