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THE HOLE/ESCAPE
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"You are a worm. You live in a hole. The hole is life, it is your home. You cannot move, you cannot turn, you cannot blink your eyes, you have no eyes. The hole nurtures you, it cares about you. There are other with you, all in the hole, in the crevice between innumerable tons, underneath a crushing pressure. Everything outside the hole is death. Life outside the hole exists and it kills, oxygen and sunlight burn like fire. They kill you. Yet in the hole, you live. The hole provides, and you love. There is no escape."
-gotryfag
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CHORUS
from birth to death
and all the time between
we hide
we are not seen

we surrendered everything
surrendered our control
we pledge, now and forever
to surrender to the hole
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there are stories of the outside
stories we've been told
stories that encourage us
to fit into the mould

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CHORUS
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-we shouldn't have left-


mbu- -ink mbu- -ink
boun- boun- boun- bound-
-given -given -give-
boun- boun- -ink boun-
-given -given -given
-ink -ink mbu- -ink
-given -given -given
(tore tore -rom/bu- bu- bu- bu- bu- bu- bu- bu-/boun- boun- boun- -ink)
boun- boun- -given
boun- boun- boun- boun-
boun- -given boun- gi- -ink -ink -ink -ink -i-
boun- boun- boun- -given
boun- gi- boun- boun- bou-
boun- -given boun- -given
(tore tore -rom/bu- bu- bu- bu- bu- bu-)

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but leaving is exactly what we did (what we did)
and leaving was the only thing that tore tore us from the grid (tore us from the grid)
(the the the the th- th- th-) the grid that we were tied to that no longer holds us down (holds us down no more)
and finally we see what we were missing
there's so much more

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tell me if you can
(i can't)
why we were buried underground

and tell me if you can
(i said i can't)
if it is better than what we found

and tell me if you can
(shut up)
why we believed what we were told

i swear if i get hold of him
(of who?)
i'll c-

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we are sinners; we can not
forgive nor be forgiven
for the pledge that we once took was bound in blood

(we shouldn't have left)

but i think we all agree
that this escape was meant to be
as we discover whole new worlds outside our own

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we feel no remorse when we walk out the door
so taking it slowly we start to explore

taking it slowly we find so much more