Bystanders

[00:00.39] Oh
[00:03.89] You wanna strip away
[00:08.62] Veracity is great
[00:13.82] But you'll bleed
[00:20.78] And all
[00:24.89] For a lukewarm embrace
[00:30.71] You serrate your face
[00:36.00] With glee
[00:41.47] Don't waste your candor
[00:46.73] On bystanders
[00:51.86] They'll watch you waste, waste, waste, waste away
[01:06.32] What's the use of confessing the truth
[01:11.66] To an executioner in a booth
[01:16.76] About the dueling forces in you?
[01:22.39] Now you barely remember your youth
[01:27.17] You used to embrace the eerie and helm
[01:32.67] Visitations from spirit realms
[01:38.07] Gifted to see between astral planes
[01:42.06] Now you plead to be plain
[01:45.73] A bystander
[01:50.31] Of bygone standards
[01:55.96] They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away, waste away
[02:06.65] Don't waste your candor
[02:11.78] On bystanders
[02:17.06] They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away, waste away
[02:28.89] (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:29.93] (They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:32.38] The minute you mitigate your fire (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:37.03] The innocence of carnal desire (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:42.19] Is stolen (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:47.26] It's stolen (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
[02:52.83] And it's true that the truth gives you free
[02:58.17] But when truth is a breach of decree
[03:03.28] Dying for praise from a gallery
[03:08.85] Whose morality is grey
[03:14.17] And they tie all their stones to your name
[03:19.27] And they cripple your bones with their shame
[03:24.85] Honesty is the most moral way
[03:30.26] But morality is grey
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