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The Void


Scream

Run- Scream

Scream

Run- Hide

Scream, Scream

No where is safe

Screaam

Voices, voices

Everywhere, can't escape

Voices

pulling me this way and that

Voices, inticing voices

Stop!

Listen, pulling you in

pulling me in

Resist

Scream- Run

Hide

Who can I trust?

Where can I go?

How do I escape?

Listen, but find the truth

(usually in the form of a whisper)

Find it

with every fiber of you being

Scream

Release your barbaric yawp

back into the decaying void of 

monotonous, droning human life

Release it!

Be free,

feel the weight released like a cannon!

When we can't be free,

can't breathe,

can't fight,

can't go on,

can't return,

can't be,

can't, just can't

SCREAM!

Reach into the unknown

and pull out Hope

Love for those who can't

Fight for those who can't

Help those who can't

Feel your heart pounding in your chest

Blood rushing to your ears

Breathes fill your lungs to capacity

Scream,

don't hide

don't run,

face it

(whatever it may be)

head on, don't back down

And feel alive

for the first time in forever.

Never-

say can't

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