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Born Dead

Born in a world I cannot understand
Brought in a world that could never understand me
I looked around to find a Truth
I only found lies

Born to work and born to pay taxes
Born to bow and buy their deceit
Born with a name and a bar code
Nobody asked me

But I was born dead, I belong to the unliving
Born dead and I weep for the living
The prisoners of life, the slaves of desire
The vain, the deceived
That never lived

Born in a hell I didn’t ignite
Another corpse to fuel the fires
Another body and mind to be infected
And carry the disease

Born to rot and die every day
Born to kneel and hope and pray
Born to be a conceited puppet
A Consumed consum
er
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