The Empire Strikes Back

from Valiant Efforts by Scarlet Victory

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It's time we strike back.
It'd be cool to connect
Avoid alienation
But I know that's my fault.
What's not is that you think
my views are useless.
Tolerance brought to a halt.
Because we're trying not to care at all.
If we don't rise then we will fall.
Don't need your acceptance to feel like I deserve an anthem.
Never need your acceptance to feel like I deserve this anthem.
You're thinking the problem
Is I won't stand for
A life that's not for me.
I do not believe
This place is what you dreamt of.
Our town will never set me free.
Because we're trying not to care at all.
If we don't rise then we will fall.
Don't need your acceptance to feel like I deserve an anthem.
Never need your acceptance to feel like I deserve this anthem.
Don't need your acceptance to feel like I deserve an anthem.
Never need your acceptance to feel like I deserve this anthem.
Every second counts until the day we die.
Now is not the time to show you've ever been shy.

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from Valiant Efforts, released August 9, 2014

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