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Every day I pass by this altar, or maybe it's a stake Where sacrifices are burnt in exchange for protection Throw a torch and vanquish the condemned to prove you're human Seek out and destroy great evil so it can light up our lives One day, they'll find it in my heart what's the point of trying If in the end I'll find myself burned away to nothingness Be a good person and you'll have nothing to fear Somehow, those words don't inspire confidence in me But with the new understanding I can make sense of everything Following an ancient canon Parts repeating and overlapping throughout time Tracing the old steps Writing new lines to find my true self Following an ancient canon Weaving it into a new explanation From the bygone dust A new me will rise again The shards gathered here claim to be above the trash they hate But all their prayers are calling down for the same sins What am I supposed to conclude from this In upholding your ideal, you break it If time exonerates me then you'll be tied here too so give me an answer But you're blinded in a world that tells you what things must be So I must bring forth the world that will see things in my way Be a good person and you'll have nothing to fear Somehow, those words don't inspire confidence in me But with the new understanding I can make sense of everything Following an ancient canon Parts repeating and overlapping throughout time Tracing the old steps Writing new lines to find my true self Following an ancient canon Weaving it into a new explanation From the bygone dust A new me will rise again The call to adventure came to me many years ago I knew I had to leave that which is normal behind Now I'm straddling the line between fiction and reality Crossing the threshold from the natural to the ersatz When I show myself they'll look upon me in contempt But when I reveal my reasons they'll know it all to be real And so everything starts falling into place Even if I can't stay in this world anymore I'll always remember what I must hold onto Even if I must carve my own path Try to find my way out of here Though I spent aimless years living in this place Now I must go out into the new world I discovered