Hardcore Reality

I watch as cities burn, away from God they turn
our eyes have lost focus, have we become hopeless
We rely on the system, but where do we stand
In a world brought into existence by the eternal man
We stare into the darkness, we stare into the light
we forget about the heartless, and forget about the night
The celebrities are dancing on sunset boulevard
with their thousand dollar suits and pimped out cars
We are but outcasts, we are but losers
lost like prostitues with silicon hooters
We are but drunks, We are but shmucks
lost inside this world, left like sitting ducks
We are but flies, wallowing on shit
like a puzzle piece out of memories to fit  
We are the hungry children infested with disease
in an african village facing causalties
We are the fallen soldiers who never make it home
we lay on a battlefield of skeletal bones
We are the families that live in poverty
scraping to get by with  a paycheck to feed
We are the divorced parent raising children on our own
isolating ourselves from the world in a broken home
We are the money hungry CEO's manipulating fraud
We are the chosen few called to follow God
We are the abused and we are the ones slain
We are the children's heartache, the ednless growing pain
We are the blessed and we are the poor
We are all sinners craving a life of more
We are the ones that fight, only to face the blood
We are the murderers, monsters of the mud
the mud that drowns heathens of lost faith
the quicksand that swallows with one single taste
We are the dreams that nobody chased
the love of a mother , a child once embraced
We are the media that chooses who we are
We are the song of a single rising star
We are the grim reality of a world lost in sin
We are the church congregation yelling out amen
We are the beautiful and the now forgotten
We are the ripened fruit and we are the rotten

You are the corporate ladder of ascension
You are the center of all attention
you are the strippers gradual descension
the slide down the pole into a vast dimension

You are the rise and fall of power
You are the darkness of the night hour
You are the sucessful and you are the failed
You are the hopeless and ones who have prevailed

You are the nightmare that destroys dreams
You are the madness rage in our screams
this is the hardcore reality we face
the images of worldy warfare we embrace 
this is the innocence we can longer taste
these are the dreams we no longer chase

You are the ads that corrupt on tv
You are the perversion of worldy idolatry
You are the death that I face everyday
You are the evil that drives hearts away
You are the thorn that pireces my eye
the heartache of a child, the pain in it's cry

You are the faded and you are the new
You are the beauty that has gone askew
You are the loved, and you are the used
the ones crying out to no longer be abused
You are the strong and you are the weak
You are the broken and you are the meek

This is the world we embrace everyday
We chase after hope seeking headway
this is a world thats become the prey 
we've become the victim of reality's way

Written 03/08/2011
copyrighted (C) 2011. Published By Todd Fletcher
All Rights reserved.