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Now it seems so long ago\r
\nThe time when you were happy\r
\nYou can't remember being free\r
\nYou only know your worries\r
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I know you've got that silent feeling\r
\nThe person in your soul is screaming\r
\nYou feel trapped by your every day\r
\nYou want to make it go away\r
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The world goes past you every second\r
\nThe fingers of the future beckon\r
\nYou see a million little faults\r
\nYou want to help to cure them all\r
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But they spin past you every time\r
\nYou get just one and let past nine\r
\nAnd soon a snow of problems\r
\nHas become a freezing wall\r
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A spinning cell of dirty ice\r
\nA touch can cut you like a knife\r
\nThe walls are getting thicker\r
\nAnd you know there's no way out\r
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I know you've got that silent feeling\r
\nThe person in your soul is screaming\r
\nYou feel trapped by your every day\r
\nYou want to make it go away\r
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The wall is crushing, closing in\r
\nYour lack of action seems a sin\r
\nBut even your best effort\r
\nDoes not seem to make a difference\r
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A world so full of injustice\r
\nIs not the world you grew up in\r
\nThe time when you were happy\r
\nDid that time really exist?\r
\n

You hurl your rightness at the wall\r
\nIt's not enough to stop the fall\r
\nThe snow of pain and misery\r
\nStill falling throughout history\r
\n

I know you've got that silent feeling\r
\nThe person in your soul is screaming\r
\nYou feel trapped by your every day\r
\nYou want to make it go away\r
\n

I know you've got that silent feeling\r
\nThe person in your soul is screaming\r
\nThe walls are closing fast I know\r
\nBut you should know you're not alone\r
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A billion of you stand your ground\r
\nThe walls keep spinning all around\r
\nThe problems don't stop raining down\r
\nBut mabe you can hold them back\r
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The cell is never getting larger\r
\nAnd you struggle ever harder\r
\nKnowing you must never tire\r
\nSomeday we will start a fire.\r
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Do you ever get that mute, trapped feeling? The world is going past you and every second there's a tiny little thing you could fix, a tiny little comment you know is wrong, an insignificant habit you know you could correct, but don't? The opportunities fly past you, a hundred every second, and you can't grab them all so you don't grab any, until there's a wall of them spinning constantly round you, trapping you with a hundred thousand things you haven't done. The frustration pounds you just as well as if were a wall of spinning concrete. You want to say the things to correct the problems, but there are too many. You want to right the wrongs of your universe, but every correction is just a tiny hole in a solid wall. You feel like a termite on a totem pole, and you want to scream but the need to explain your scream would just be another piece of that huge, solid wall. So you sit there, mute and angry, and no one even know there's a problem.\r
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