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From the top to the bottom (Bottom to the top, I stop)

At the core of forgotten (In the middle of my thoughts)

Taken far from my safety (The picture's there)

The memory won't escape me

We're stuck in a place so dark you can hardly see

A manner of matter that splits with the words I breathe

And as the rain drips acidic questions around me

I block out the sight of the powers that be

And duck away into the darkness, time's up

I wind up in a rusted world with eyes shut

So tight that it blurs into the world of pretend

And the eyes ease open and it's dark again

From the top to the bottom (Bottom to the top, I stop)

At the core of forgotten (In the middle of my thoughts)

Taken far from my safety (The picture's there)

The memory won't escape me (But why should I care?)

In the memory you'll find me

Eyes burning up

The darkness holding me tightly

Until the sun rises up

Listen to the sound, dizzy from the ups and downs

And nauseated by the polluted rock that's all around

Watching the wheels of cars that pass

I look past to the last of the light and the long shadows it casts

A window grows, captures the eye and cries out

A yellow light as it passes me by

And a young, shadowy figure sits in front of a box

Inside a building of rock with antennas on top

Now nothing can stop in this land of the pain

The same lose not knowing they were part of the game

And while the insides change, the box stays the same

And the figure inside could bear anybody's name

The memories I keep are from a time like then

I put on my paper so I could come back to them

Someday I'm hoping to close my eyes and pretend

That this crumpled up paper can be perfect again

From the top to the bottom (Bottom to the top, I stop)

At the core of forgotten (In the middle of my thoughts)

Taken far from my safety (The picture's there)

The memory won't escape me

I'm here at this podium talking, the ceremonial offerings

Dedicated to urban dysfunctional offsprings

(What's happening?) City governments are eternally napping

Trapped in greedy covenants, 'causing urban collapse

And bullets that scar souls with dark holes

Get more than your car stole

Some hearts be blacker than charcoal

(For real) This society's deprivation depends

Not on our differences, but the separation within

No preparation is made, limited aid, no minimum wage

Living in the tenement cage where rent isn't paid

Tragedy within a parade

The darkness overspreads like a permanent plague

On the forgotten

In the memory you'll find me

Eyes burning up

The darkness holding me tightly

Until the sun rises up