“People change”, he says. “People grow.”
I've seen it happen. I should know.
There's no real evidence that he can show
Yet he still preaches: The highest of the high can come from the lowest of the low.
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I dupe my heart into believing what I can't convince my mind.
Walk around as if I were mute, deaf, and blind.
We all pretend there's no untruth to find.
I wish so badly his intentions were truly kind.
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It's all so familiar, this game that we play.
I can almost predict the exact lies that he'll say.
It'd be too much to ask for the happiness to stay
Yet I fall deeper, knowing all the while that in the end I'll be the one to pay.
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Serenity crumbles, and promises break.
We make excuses that we know are fake.
Through the cracks in his well-crafted facade we catch a glimpse of the cold-hearted snake.
Yet we dumbly let him ruin what isn't his to take.
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“Old habits die hard,” now that one I believe.
I'm not sorry as I watch him leave; too tired from it all to even grieve.
I finally realize there's nothing left of his soul to retrieve.
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I know it won't be easy, and the battle has just begun.
But I've made the first step, out of the darkness, and into the sun.
I have no reasons left to run. I'll seek no revenge, even though it could be fun.
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“People change,” he said. “People grow.”
I've seen it happen, and now I know.
I am the evidence there is to show.
The highest of the high has come from the lowest of the low.
