Red, White and Blue - Skinned

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Dampen your ego with my blood.
Wrap your religion with my leather skin.
My thoughts are cycling
through streets of danger;
once in a while I'll catch a butterfly land
on my frail fingertips.
I've already started to see my eyes wrinkling.

I'm aging fast while the years grow slow
and countries cast control while I
cry on father's wooden floors.
Nothing is ever enough to prove to you;
with your idolized greed for power,
that I'm worthy of a single breath I breathe
and I've only just left my teens.
I'm dying fast while I feel out of control
and every word seems like I'm being pushed
into the waves of the unknown.

I'm all alone.
I'm all alone.

If a rich dude could give me
a place to stay, a place to breathe—
no strings attached.
I would live in peace.

"Living a free life in the USA"
is like a lie to me,
a blatant attempt to persuade
the land to be free...
Well, you won, I guess
take your biblical trophy.
You let me down.

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