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Things Fall Apart

from Prezent by Zen Tempest

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I have to wonder, am I offering my best?/
While I’m sitting, sipping coffee, doing laundry in my nest./
See, I have read Pedagogy of the Oppressed,/
And, afterwards, I watched pornography and got some rest./
And, trust me… I understand the irony/
That while I criticize it I reside within society./
And though I try to be a pirate for the cause,/
I realize that I am a fraud, I am a cog./
I am a fine man, but I am flawed./
Caught up in a prob-a-lem that I have not solved./
And see, it angers me… that I’ve been crafted/
Into an antagonist, a natural assassin./
As in, I am a murderer of unicorns./
Slew the whole herd by virtue of being human born./
And do you know what that reputation can do to you?/
It can convince a man his life is just a funeral./
It can convince a man to work inside a cubicle,/
And waste away just watching Scooby Doo and solving Rubix Cubes,/
Eating food that looks like it was brewed in sewage tubes./
And who are you? The nudist getting laughed at?/
Are you the clueless and confused human lab rat?/
Or better yet, shit, maybe you’re the scientist/
Who once upon a time decided he would divide his kids./
And I don’t give a shit, whichever one you are…/
I just want us all to understand we play a part./

We are an instrument. This is an art./
Are we gonna live it? Will we give it all we are?/
Make a decision. This is how it starts./
Things get built, and things fall apart./

We are an instrument. This is an art./
Are we gonna live it? Will we give it all we are?/
Make a decision. This is how it starts./
Things get built, and things fall apart./

We are an instrument. This is an art./
Are we gonna live it? Will we give it all we are?/
Make a decision. This is how it starts./
Things get built, then things fall apart./

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from Prezent, released February 4, 2017
Lyrics by Zen Tempest
Beat by Kuzava
Recorded and Mixed by James Lutz at Warehouse 21
Mastered by Potion Productions

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