YOU LAUGHED WHEN I DIED

[Mouse]

they call it a self fulfilling prophecy

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that you believe something so hard, you end up pushing people to do exactly what you were afraid of in the first place

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some places call it a witch hunt

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that might be funny if it weren't so sad

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first they took me away from me

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and then they took me away from prospera

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and then they took arcadia from me

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why?

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they look to the others, and they judge for what they have done and what they have said they will do

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but they look to me, and they judge for their suspicions and worries

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'witch', they cry, 'servant of chaos', they decree, and maybe they're not wrong

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but maybe they are

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and they refuse to listen to me when i say i do not lie, i only tell the truth

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after all

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IT'S ONLY FUN IF EVERYONE PLAYS BY THE RULES

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LIARS MAKE THING SO COMPLICATED. HALF TRUTHS MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE.

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I TELL THE TRUTH NOT BECAUSE I'M SCARED OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF LYING

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BUT BECAUSE THE CONSEQUENCES OF TELLING THE TRUTH ARE SO MUCH MORE FUN

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WHO AM I? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION

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WHAT AM I? THAT'S A BETTER ONE

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BUT WHEN I TELL THEM THE ANSWERS, THEY THINK ME A LIAR, A FRAUD

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THEY COMPARE ME TO THE THIEF, THEY COMPARE ME TO THE MONSTERS IN THE NIGHT

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MAYBE I AM WORSE

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MAYBE I AM BETTER

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BUT IT WON'T EVER REALLY MATTER

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BECAUSE IN THE END, AS I PLEAD MY LIFE STORY, MY WORLD, MY DESPERATION TO THE MASSES

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THEY LOOK TO ME, AND THEY SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE

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AND EVEN THOUGH I TELL THEM THE TRUTH, STILL, YET, THEY CALL ME

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liar

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i'm not mad

just disappointed, meranthe

I'm running out of places to go, Meranthe.

A cornered rat will, in fact, bite the cat.

So when someone runs out of cities in alliance, where else are they to go?

w h e r e e l s e

a r e t h e y

t o g o

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