Look at me and say to me
Without guilt or compromise
That you care about anything
That doesn't jump right in front of your eyes

We got a problem you got a problem
The mesmerizing truth
We all want the life
No one is supposed to really own

Tell me what is worth dying for?
I ask with the assumption I'll get no reply

Breathe in breathe out
Sometimes I get lost within a stare
I look around and I ask myself
"Why the fuck should I even care?"

This affliction repetition
It's all been done before
While I'm sittin' here just killin' time
As the world goes along for more

Tell me what is worth dying for?
Would you give up everything to make one lasting point?

We all believe we have the right
To make believe we know what's right
But how much will it take
To make you stand and be heard?

I am the reason you are the reason
To abandon everything we have become
My eyes are wide open my heart is wide open
Is your mind wide open to see?


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The Misanthropic Principle Lyrics as written by Jacob Ira Kiley Christopher Travis Jr Aiken

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    I am not sure what this song is really about, but I think that it may be about how some people are too one-track-minded. They don't care to see what is really around them, they just live life and believe what people tell them. I know this might offend some people, but I think that church can have a big affect on people's personalities because in church you are preached to and not heard. You are told what to belive and anything else is wrong. This is not always the case though. I can happen many ways. So yeah that is what I see in this song as of right now.

    Millencolin!on December 29, 2004   Link

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