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Hidden Hands-

For the past month i've been having this dream
where the cities and towns get swallowed up by the seas
and the flares shoot off like the fourth of july
but there's no life boats for miles and miles
what were we left to do but swim
so we did until our fucking chests caved in
when i heard the last cries people repenting for sin
I said who's hands are we in?

you wanna see it, look and believe it
hidden hands are controlling everything
from the news that we watch to the water we drink
and every war waged creates more debt slaves
to ensure the authority of the elite
so call me a fatalist, but I'm trying to live in this world and not of it.

it still haunts me, I can't sleep through the night
it gives me headaches so bad i can't look at the light
it still haunts me

6:30 am alarm clock screaming
wake up realize I'm not dreaming
we gotta stop giving in to whatever it is that makes
us feel we have to live and die like this

it still haunts me, I can't sleep through the night
it gives me headaches so bad I can't look at the light
it still haunts me

If you, as I
have suffered from the empty pockets of circumstance - let your voice be a weapon
and if you, as I
have suffered from the empty stomach of allegiance - put your boots to the pavement
your pens to the parchment - let your voice speak love

I wanna see the world for what it is
I wanna give it hell without giving in
I wanna know i can change the things I hate
without the threat of being consumed by them

don't let them tell you how to think
never let them tell you how to love
don't let them tell you how to be
cause we're right here and we're not afraid

If its not bombs then its the love that will bring us together

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from The Moriah Conquering Wind, released April 26, 2012

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