Virtue Of The Vicious

from Old Haunts by Spectral Fires

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Does this pretense give you comfort?
Does it take away your pain?
Do you like awake at night thinking those things to keep you sane?
Does violence prove you’re worthy, or does it take away your pride?
And bring about a realization of its unending tide that can’t be kept at bay.

So a force of unimaginable, unrelenting light is what it would take to allay my fears
And in its absence we all shudder in resigned remembrance from time to time but carry on.

Can you feel it coming from the inside out?
(‘cause it’s coming from the outside in)
Can you feel it coming from the inside out?
(‘cause it’s coming from the outside)

It’s a virtue of the vacuous, the vicious and the weak
And the self-congratulation is enough to make me sick.
Defiance gets you nowhere and disrespect maligns, but I can’t change my feelings and I will not change my mind, I won’t, I just can’t let it go.

I won’t let it go.

This is a part of me that I cannot disown, we are one and the same.
This is not an opinion – this is belief.
This reason.
This is sense.
This is everything, and I will not let it go.

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from Old Haunts, released June 5, 2014

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Alternative punk band from Melbourne, Australia.
2013 - 2019

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