Trouble

I like the feeling of not doing what I'm supposed to do

I like the thrill of running from what is good for me

 

Coincidence is beauty

But when we make it it's just fate

And when we think it's random,

Someone will anticipate

 

I heard a tone that I couldn't decipher

From the heart of the ones that I desire

Could one be following me?      (please)

If you climb and rise to the top of a tower

And jumped off the roof

Could you survive the fall?

 

There's a certainty about circling that I just don't see

There's a dark sky tonight by the grave of the bright,

Have you ever felt the chill of a plea?

 

There's a place to run, where the sky will fall

But we control our own destiny

The damaged do the damage to the newborn dawn

And the faithful bring us to our knees

If it's guns you seek and a violence peak

C'mon, the gates are open wide

Do the bruises sting? Do the trumpets sing?

Then let them know for the rest of your life

 

If there's rules to break, a nation full of hate

And you can't help but feel all alone

It's not random, see, it was meant to be

And its beauty chills me to the bone

You're the king of the scene, careful choose your queen

She may have seen you all before

Is your following a desperate cry of greed?

It's a long way down to the floor

 

The ones who we punish, were once the young innocent

Victims of the next jailed addicts

 

There's a certainty about living free that just sounds too good to me

But the sound back home is death by death of a drone

Is there something I didn't see?

 

There's a place to run, where the sky will fall

But we control our own destiny

The damaged do the damage to the newborn dawn

And the faithful bring us to our knees

If it's guns you seek and a violence peak

C'mon, the gates are open wide

Do the bruises sting? Do the trumpets sing?

Then let them know for the rest of your life

 

This poem is about: 
My country
Our world

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