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“Sweet
Oblivion” Now retreating Into shame Never to be believed again And rightly so Lying with every word That stumbles off your tongue To trip and fall from your lips Hanging in the air Condemned to die In the ears of everyone Sitting in front of the evening news With the sound turned down Waiting for the return of primetime And sweet oblivion Not caring that we never know Exactly what we should Smiling dumb and nodding Looking like the bastard children Of an idiot generation That would sign their lives away If it meant that they could feel Like everything was fine Nothing’s going on that we don’t know Or at least That we don’t want to know Though we sit at home Raising our unfortunate children In blissful ignorance Because everybody loves us Everyone wants to be us Peeking over into our backyards Filled with envy And on the off chance That they might look up From licking clean The soles of our dirty feet With a questioning gleam In the corner of their eye We can bomb them back to the Stone Age Claiming immorality and possible threat For we are never wrong
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