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PENANCE LYRICS
"Living truth" (1990 Demo)
1. Contemplation
2. Born to suffer
3. Crosses we bear
4. In spite of you
5. Penence
1. Contemplation
2. Born to suffer
All this suffering yet I cannot feel it
Words of consolation I bring to you
I am torn by grief and sorrow
For me there's no tomorrow
Hiding under your shroud of security
For your peace of mind
I've lived and learned with gifts bestowed on me
But I was left behind
I reach for you but you're illusion
Please excuse me for my intrusion
Once hopeful but now just living
Why must I be punished for giving
Youth memories that once had sheltered me
Kill me in the end
Born to suffer live by standard die in despair
Born to suffer again
Who are your heroes? Where are the morals?
Somewhere in limbo but surely not here
Can't you see my misery maybe tomorrow I'll be all right
Blasphemy and irony of a world on it's knees
Reality's gain is my loss, until a change
I will suffer
3. Crosses we bear
Life's so fast, got to make it last
You've got to let your feelings show
Don't have all the answers to cure life's cancer
I've been around enough to know
Life... another cross that we bear
Hope... amidst the pain and despair
Release your pain
World's a mess, we've got to do our best
Try and clot the world's wounds bleeding
We've got to fight, hard is the path to right
Winning's not worth it if it's easy
Life... another cross that we bear
Hope... amidst the pain and despair
Release your pain
I'm out in the world without a home
I'm scared but not alone
I don't know where to go
But I know where I'm going
It's got to be me and you
With a little love we can make it through
4. In spite of you
IN SPITE OF YOU
Hail the master of manipulation
Bow to the slave of desperation
Guttural star
Pawn to fame
Use one last to do your bidding
Ego trip fascade; Senseless living
You defy my
very being
Act a good life, but live a bad act
Breath in the glory, but choke in the pack
Yesterday's gimmick
dying star
Desception in your word, tales of the fake
Heroes in worship, more ego for the take
Triumphant smile
Poison disguise
Won't get to me, you won't bring me down
I can't change you, You'll always be around
Stay away, You're a waste of time
I'm living truth, In spite of you
The answer's here but you don't see it
If you did you might believe it
Once a fool and now a legend
Whom the mindless follow till their end
Lambs of the slaughter and masters of their will
One to the other and to each other a kill
You're not much
wiser than they
All groomed for success, could see it in their eyes
Mockery of life defeats and honest try
Storms to weather
Stand my ground
Might get to me, might bring me down
If I can't change you, I won't be around
Coming my way and wasting my time
I've told the truth, In spite of you
5. Penence
Sit and watch the world, I contemplate
Existence ill legitimate, a quirk of fate
Is man of God or just Nature's folly
Still with intelligence, we all are crawling
One step forward and two steps back
Bring man's destined descent into black
What does existence hold for me
A mutation of what man conceives
Did you ever step back and look at yourself
You might not like what you see
And with each dawn that brings a new day's breath
For most it means life, but for me it means death
Man is a paradox drowning in irony
The world is chained to man's reality
Can't you see
It wasn't meant to be
Not you or me
Humanity......You're killing me
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