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Gratitude Shouldn't Be The Reaction To Someone Else Being Slaughtered First

from Bystanders by Bridges Left Burning

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Forget about being unique, be uniformed and lined in!
So your blood will be the oil for the machine but never mind!
Eventually, work will make you free!
Unconditional cupidity has spoiled our mind,
we care for our own profit and leave others behind.

Make sure you’ve got everything you can afford!
Welcome to our world of greed:
“I don’t need it but i want it before someone else can take it away.”
We don’t even try to construct any bridges – we burn them down and build walls.
We keep pushing and fighting, until compassion is gone.

Out of sight the things that really count in life.
Hands pulled away, someone kicked deeper into the mud,
a frigid world without any heart.
We’re socially conditioned to act as if “the I” is more and everybody else is less.
Our sick narcissism is telling us to benefit no one but ourselves.

Catch up, catch up, don’t fall behind!
This is life’s busy race, keep the pace!

Take it, take it, don’t give a shit!
This is life’s greed- trap and you got caught in it.
Be faster, be stronger, try to last longer!
They’re all enemies, leave ‘em behind!
The “machinery that gives abundance has left us in want”,
turned us into “machine men with machine minds and machine hearts”.

Who’s #1 in the championship of life?
We yearn for more and more,
with one eye on our triumph and the other on the score.

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from Bystanders, released July 26, 2013
Written and produced by Bridges Left Burning
Recorded and mixed by Benedikt Hain @ Outback Recordings in Zwiesel Mastered by Ludwig Maier @ GKG Mastering in Freising
Artwork by Martin Hofmann, Augsburg

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