What a funny story, don’t we all know how this ends?

They’ll take a knife to your brain

Carve you until you fit the grain

“to conform is to ascend”

Embrace the phony

Rejecting reality, break away from this

Watch them lose their way!

Now, they’re filled with shame!

They cannot walk along the path they laid

Holding no love for

The life they deemed a bore

They’ll turn to the devout

Assessing every route

Dissecting their own love

Rather be rid of

Thе world they can’t enjoy

The world thеy must destroy

“welcome, brand new life”

Idealist minds, we pray they never cry

“never lose your light”

But we can’t keep them safe

Someday they’ll learn their fate

Do we have to lie?

Do we have to hide?

Do we have to make and break ourselves

Just for a single chance to survive?

God, to hell with your ideals!

And to hell with what is right!

I’ll make sure that you feel it!

I won’t go down without a fight!

Learn from the failure

Rejecting your tenure track

Fight back! back! back!

They’re too numb to weigh

The words they cannot say

They can’t escape without a single scrape

Holding no love for

The life they deemed a bore

They’ll play pretend and pout

Until their mind blanks out

Live a complacent life

“they never were too bright”

The world is far too cold

It’s easier to fold!

Reject the idol

Circulating wildfires, lost inside the eyes

As they run and pray

Someone will end their pain

They won’t forget

The ways they’ve been betrayed

Holding no love for the life they left ashore

They’ll find a new way out

In this, i have no doubt

Deny the easy-outs and every opened door

Some day, they’ll shirk their role

One day, they’ll become whole

And once they’re in control...