A girl walked into a graveyard one day

Flowers in hand and crying

She wonders why the world is the way it is

Why snow always falls in winter.

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She was wet, she knew

Soaked through to the bone

She had been since last night

When she left in the storm.

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Her mother was calling

Her father didn't care

That's the way it always was

She no longer cared.

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Feathers drifted down like snow

That's the way the world was

There was no changing it

No time from dusk to dusk.

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She wished that she could travel

Take a leap and jump through time

Back to that day that he called

And asked her if she valued her life.

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"I want to live!"

That's what she had said

What she had cried out as she clutched

The gift the stranger had gifted her.

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They were kind to her in a way

Despite their attitudes being off

And she came to care for them

No matter what they did.

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Stockholm syndrome

She knew that's all it was

That's why she cared and trusted them

But she stopped caring long ago.

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Take a deep breath

One Two Three

Twenty Six children

All lying dead.

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The bomb has gone off

Fireworks in the sky

The city has gone dark

And no one has died.

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Oedipus is here

Standing by the graves

She smiles at him

And he bows his head.

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They lived and breathed

And loved and lost

They hated and wondered

They smiled and cried.

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"Don't forget we lived"

Those words rung in her ears

And she wanted to cry out

At how unfair it was.

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City lights, so bright and colorful

The wheel turns round and round

A clock counts down one tick at a time

I want to live.

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Betrayal, betrayal

But forgiveness too

You threw that hand grenade

I owe you one.

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Sphinx 1, Sphinx 2

Calling out to you

Watch out for fire today

We call out in terror.

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Time is broken, disjointed too

It shifts and moves back and forth

Lost in fragments, that I am

Look how fragile life is.

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Another video came out today

People whisper about it everywhere

There's a bomb hidden somewhere

A red snake goes through the city.

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Trapped, trapped!

Captured, running

Riding faster

I'm losing time.

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The game hasn't finished yet

With Five and Nine and Twelve

They run and run and run

Because the clock is still ticking.

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Bang the gun rang out

Twelve falls down

Nine cries out

But still gives up.

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The news is happy,

The people are not

A girl walks to a graveyard

And twenty six children lie dead.