Ask for More

from Among The Ruins, Rejoice by Love And Squalor

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A symptom of a cancer assimilated into the structure.
Vitriol can be the lesser evil.
Active in self-interest. Passive until it's thoughtless.
"That's how it is." can't be a reason anymore.

Why are we content to be uncivil?
We could ask for more than the torpor of the selfish.
I don't know why we satisfy ourselves til we find empathy's abhorred.
Why do we decline to ask for more?

The problem is endemic when the level of debate cannot be more than this.
If the masses care so little for their own time, there is no place for art
or critical analysis, challenge or interpretive design.

Why are we content with what we're given?
We could ask for more than the ubiquity of drivel.
I don't know why we fetishize the commonplace til wisdom is abhorred.
Why are we afraid to ask for more?

We could have heaven on earth.
We could be what we say we are.
We could be a beautiful world
instead of unused clockwork, a mire and a failure.

Why are we content with what we're given?
We could ask for more than this frustrated frame we live in.
I don't know why we idealize malaise til we find movement is abhorred.
Tell me!

Why are we content with what we're given?
We could ask for more than this frustrated frame we live in.
I don't know why we idealize malaise til we find movement is abhorred.
Why are we so damned scared to ask for more?

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from Among The Ruins, Rejoice, released September 22, 2013

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