Between Aspirations کے بول

My self effacing charity and gluttonous prosperity Don't move mountains of misery or stone My never-ending loyalty to hypocritical royalty Has cut my sense of belonging to the bone You ask me what I want to be, I become the sum of all I see And grow old in confusion and disgrace The recognition of my sins, the erosion of my discipline Won't someone come and put me in my place? Come and see what I've become Tied down to no one And stuck between aspirations Now I'm thankful for my sovereignty, I know it rests on poverty And sometimes I would rather crawl than fight I know I've gone nowhere fast by walking down the narrow path And I cringe at battle I fought out of spite There was a time, there was a place where everybody knew my face And everything I touched would turn to gold But now I've come to realize that to see through all their fucking lies Is to refuse to be bought or sold