Bystanders

Oh
 You wanna strip away
 Veracity is great
 But you'll bleed
 And all
 For a lukewarm embrace
 You serrate your face
 With glee
 Don't waste your candor
 On bystanders
 They'll watch you waste, waste, waste, waste away
 What's the use of confessing the truth
 To an executioner in a booth
 About the dueling forces in you?
 Now you barely remember your youth
 You used to embrace the eerie and helm
 Visitations from spirit realms
 Gifted to see between astral planes
 Now you plead to be plain
 A bystander
 Of bygone standards
 They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away, waste away
 Don't waste your candor
 On bystanders
 They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away, waste away
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 (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
 (They'll watch you waste away, waste away, waste away)
 The minute you mitigate your fire (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
 The innocence of carnal desire (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
 Is stolen (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
 It's stolen (Waste away, waste away, waste away)
 And it's true that the truth gives you free
 But when truth is a breach of decree
 Dying for praise from a gallery
 Whose morality is grey
 And they tie all their stones to your name
 And they cripple your bones with their shame
 Honesty is the most moral way
 But morality is grey