Recidivist History

Swore off the days when you were acting like them But wore their old heirs with such blinded intentions Promise of bettering, but no better off 'Cause all bets are off when it comes to laying groundwork Burdened with history Helplessly under its weight Forging my own self, no more mistakes Taken everything And faced the mess with so much indifference for tomorrow, for tomorrow A long, long lineage of moral corruption I refuse to be like them became a hymn so forgotten But our 9 to 5 jobs we find ourselves in keep us terribly spiteful Breeding a cyclical culture of carelessness Burdened with history Helplessly under its weight Forging my own self, no more mistakes