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Orphans of History
PORCELAIN HEARTS
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We lit the fires in the libraries
A cleansing flame they said
Tore down the granite giants
Left a hollow space instead
Scraped the names from every monument
Pulled the statues to the ground
Said let the past be buried
A new future can be found
We called it progress
Called it freedom
A brand new year zero start
We painted over all the murals
'Til we tore our world apart
Erased the borders on the maps
Erased the lines of creed
Planted a garden of amnesia
Watering a poisoned seed
The echoes fade away
The dust has settled now
We are the orphans of history
A ship without an anchor
Floating in an endless present
Fueled by silent anger
We have no past to guide us
No future to hold true
Just the static of the new
In everything we do
They gave us screens to be our sun
A simulated light
Planted trees with digital roots
That wither in the night
They built a world of mirrors
Reflecting just our face
A perfect
Empty paradise
With no time and no space
We scroll through feeds of nothing
A constant
Hollow stream
Trying to remember the texture
Of a half-forgotten dream
But the server holds no record
The archive's full of holes
We sold our epic poems
For a handful of ones and zeroes
The fires are all out now
And the stones are cold to touch
We wanted to erase so much
Did we erase too much
We have no name
We are the void
We burned our fathers' house
And now we're standing in the rain
The echoes fade away
The dust has settled now
We are the orphans of history
A ship without an anchor
Floating in an endless present
Fueled by screaming anger
We have no past to guide us
No future to hold true
Just the static of the new
In everything we do
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