Between Aspirations

Between Aspirations

Gc5 (The)
(album: Kisses From Hanoi)

My self effacing charity and gluttonous prosperity
Don´t move mountains of misery or stone
My never-ending loyalty to hypocritical royalty
Has cut my sense of belonging to the bone
You ask me what I want to be, I become the sum of all I see
And grow old in confusion and disgrace
The recognition of my sins, the erosion of my discipline
Won´t someone come and put me in my place?
Come and see what I´ve become
Tied down to no one
And stuck between aspirations
Now I´m thankful for my sovereignty, I know it rests on poverty
And sometimes I would rather crawl than fight
I know I´ve gone nowhere fast by walking down the narrow path
And I cringe at battle I fought out of spite
There was a time, there was a place where everybody knew my face
And everything I touched would turn to gold
But now I´ve come to realize that to see through all their fucking lies
Is to refuse to be bought or sold