The Next to The Last

At a great distance, your approach unto all which we are

Forget that it is you whom taught us to be this way

Greatest motivators of the modern universe may not do better

For your motivations have lived on through each foray

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Step up and try to do whatever you must

This is not the first time we've seen your wickedness

Planned for you we have done, and we are ready

Don't think anything of asking for forgiveness

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In the morning sun I feel your hand of fate

And by nitefall lyou may be hear to collect

Not what one of us wanted

And some look at you, and all they can do is reject

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You may be the last of your kind

Nothing good would ever last

Crashing upon us as the key to what's next

Coming for many, far too fast

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It is beauty of you that attracts to you

We come like magnets to metal

Never do the masses know what they failed to do

The should have stopped to smell at least one rose petal

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Never knowing what in the scheme of it all you are

And always avoiding your reality

But living like we're under you as the brightest star

And daring to bathe in the waters of you duality

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Who send you for us

Do we steer ourselves to you with reckless abandon

Hair on fire like our heroes

Looking for safe harbors in the choppiest seas, a place to land on

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Nay, but you are simply there

Like the waters of life

And in that very breath of fresh air

Always waiting for your chance, to turn that knife

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This is the story of one so elusively known

But you are never understood

In folklorish tales you are told and have been shown

So we could postpone your affect, if only we could

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You are the last

With some many in the rear

So much time has past

You are the last in that final year

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So we must hold onto

With a grip so strong it crushes the soul of the world

For we do not yet belong to

We'll stay on the next to the last

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The last day