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in the harsh light of reality
we wear our shades or we close our eyes
trip over our morality
pick up ourselves with our little white lies
indulge in our brutalities
though it's ourselves we come to despise
in the hard light of reality
but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent
we don't sleep so easily
if we can't dream of innocence
we wish for immortality
while making sure that it'll never happen
count up all the fatalities
and judge their values by the flags they're flapping
our fake spirituality
is pretty shabby in its silver wrapping
in the harsh light of reality
but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent
we don't sleep so easily
if we can't dream of innocence
in the harsh light of reality
our progress often seems like mere destruction
so much for rationality
as long as we are keeping up production
we fail to grasp the actualities
our problems really are our own construction
in the harsh light of reality
but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent
we don't sleep so easily
if we can't dream of innocence
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in the harsh light of reality we wear our shades or we close our eyes trip over our morality pick up ourselves with our little white lies indulge in our brutalities though it's ourselves we come to despise in the hard light of reality but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent we don't sleep so easily if we can't dream of innocence
we wish for immortality while making sure that it'll never happen count up all the fatalities and judge their values by the flags they're flapping our fake spirituality is pretty shabby in its silver wrapping in the harsh light of reality but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent we don't sleep so easily if we can't dream of innocence
in the harsh light of reality our progress often seems like mere destruction so much for rationality as long as we are keeping up production we fail to grasp the actualities our problems really are our own construction in the harsh light of reality but i can see how we can be so fantasy dependent we don't sleep so easily if we can't dream of innocence