Until They Banish Us

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Let’s be hipstersRule breakersLet’s be rockstarsOr bank bank robbersThe night is young and we’re in controlLets forget that the authority is watching our every moveWhy live on one’s expectation? Why be overtaken?They expect us to be perfect, smart, and understandingWhat for?They limit us with choices in life, as if we’re walls, or as if we’re invisible These are the days of our lives where mistakes is all we do and learn fromThe days of our lives we say screw what mom what us to dress just to not embarrass her friendsScrew how big or small of a fish we catch as we fish with our father and his friendsScrew how sinless our preachers wants our lives to beScrew how intelligent our society expect us to beScrew the moment our parents say, “Honey, sweet pie....you have no choice”Hell yes we have a choice on whether we want to be doctors, lawyers, or some major case detectives. What if we want to be magicians or some wizardsWe can’t always be what they want us to be, we can’t all turn water into wine, we can’t all solve a math equation.Why can’t we listen to whatever we want? Dress whatever pleases us? The rules are there to be broken, so lets break emLet’s stand out bravely for our teenage years before they turn them into their old ageLet’s party till they banish usLet’s speak against their laws till they banish usThe old man starts a war and let’s the young ones finish itScrew that, let’s live our lives till they banish usLike a disease; we are to themLike the mini Hitlers, let them distaste usFor only those who are hated speak of the truthLet them banish us, we’ll just be around the cornerComing with words flaming like a lit cigarette thrown into petroleum Let them see us vomit reality for it’s sickeningWhy does our reputation have to represent them?Let them banish us, but then their lives are controlled by the hour glassTheir breaths are getting sucked in by their existence I’m done peace out

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