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Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) - Emperor X
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Tuning: Standard
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General Doom got another leg caught
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He was arming kids, begging for artillery shells to kick around
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And building white crosses to commemorate the martyrs' brigade
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In the Red Crescent-bearing ambulances
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It's better than working in the mines all day
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One vehicle down
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We were praising the Lord when we heard the report
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Of the trucks and the cranes and the double-yellow lines
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And the fear and the love and the violence dissolved
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We're told that we've learned a great deal
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And we're told that your loss is collateral cost
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And stochastically inevitable
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And the price that we pay for breathing, but we
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Deeeefffyy 5x
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Punk Haitians kicking under concrete
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They charge their phones and send another text feed to the flotilla
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And it's out, but time's not a disease
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It's an ordered state. It's a firm substrate
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It's a shocking priceless wasteland
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And it's where we'll raise our kids and get lost and
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Deeeefffyy 4x
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Letters, pixels, texts
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Crystallize and mutate
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Patterns amplifying
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forever 8x
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