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The "civilized" world


Psalm 52:3     New English Translation     

3 You love evil more than good,

lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

 

The "civilized" world

 

Living water makes me wet, and love is for taking

Comfort is my friend, and God helps those who take care of self

Live and let live is my way until someone notices my faking

Then we should kill the rat and shove him into “well?”

 

Living hell, that is life, yes I know, I have been there

I had a one-way ticket, and I’m now the one I am

You think life is easy as in studies I’ve been everywhere

No one knows it better in the realm of “might have been”

 

Depravity on paper does not mean a thing

Read my heart, you fool, and you will understand

You think you know it all as I’ll analyze everything

I am more than civilized … an European hooligan

 

Jan Wienen

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