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from Waves by The Purge

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This song, like other songs of the album's first half, is, for me, something of a meditation on the moral foundation with which American and Western society operates upon and what it costs the world at large to do so. It is an acknowledgement of the denial, particularly denail of the death and suffering that exists abroad and the existential shutting-down that exists at home, which is, depending who you ask, either the enabler of our a by-product of the great modern luxuries we in the west take for granted.

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Glorified war
The immature beast of entertainment
I cannot sleep - I cannot stay awake

A haze of doubt
and a desire to kill myself
Protection from myself
I buy into the lie.

Normalcy will save us
How dare you say I'm in denial?
Heresy! My country
is kissed by God.

My self-hate and sadness
aren't worth the race I participate in.
I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.
I don't.

Desires manufactured
by the labor of unseen hands
Close my eyes. Disappear.
Suicide.

There once was happiness
Now there is self-righteousness
Drowning in debt
I live in the moment

I wake up more tired
than I was the night before.
Distress. Distrust.
What is love?

It's coming. It could come:
A day when we live in equality.
I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.
I don't.

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from Waves, released November 9, 2013
Written and produced by Thomas Duerig.

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Dark 80s-inspired pop. Dance floor anthems and melancholia.

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