Welcome to the system Heres the situation Its a bit confusing Welcome to the maze Everybody sees what Everybody wants to Everyone avoids Every other gaze I will be your mentor Ill be your adviser Ill do what I do And you will look away Forgetting what you see Has always been much wiser But someone in the back is missing what I say Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system Welcome to the park now We supply amusements Everybody rides But everybody pays What goods causing problems When no ones complaining What good is a martyr If no one is saved Everybody knows us Everybody sees us Every single child Can tell you where we are Every politician Says that we are leaving But in all this time We havent gone too far Got a complaint in the system Got a complaint in the system You should understand it Its not underhanded Its really quite simple you see The right and the wrong of it Long and the short of it Black and the white of it Forget the sight of it It is so much cheaper To be no ones keeper Trust me In the dead of the night You can stab with a knife But its rare youll ever get anywhere So we laugh in delight Till you turn on a light And we scatter for the darkness Or the corners filled with blackness And were There There Where Where There THEN THE SAILOR TURNED AROUND AND WALKED BACK ALONG THE BEACH TOWARDS THE BOAT ANCHORED OFFSHORE FOR HIS DECISION HAD BEEN REACHED HE THEN SAT DOWN ON THE SAND THINKING OF ALL HE HAD SEEN THAT DAY AND THEN DECIDED IN HIS MIND IT WAS TIME TO SAIL AWAY FOR THE WORLD THAT I WAS BORN TO CLEARLY NO LONGER EXISTS AND THE FEELING I SHOULD LEAVE IT I CAN NO LONGER RESIST AND AS HE SAT THERE THINKING A MOTHER AND HER CHILD WALKED BY AND THE OLD SAILORS HOURGLASS HAD CAUGHT THE YOUNG BOYS EYE SO HE WALKED UP TO THE STRANGER AS ONLY A YOUNG CHILD WILL DO TO ASK IF HE COULD SEE THE HOURGLASS BUT THEN HE NOTICED SOMETHING NEW THAT THE OLD MAN HE WAS CRYING THOUGH HE TRIED TO WIPE HIS EYES SO THE CHILD FORGOT THE HOURGLASS AND INSTEAD ASKED THE OLD MAN WHY BUT BEFORE THE SAILOR COULD ANSWER THE MOTHER SAID TO LEAVE THE MAN ALONE AND TAKING THE CHILD BY THE HAND SHE GENTLY LED HIM HOME AND AS THEY LEFT THE BEACH THE SAND RECORDED BOTH THEIR TRACKS UNTIL THEY REACHED THE FINAL DUNE WHEN THE YOUNG CHILD HE LOOKED BACK THEN HE SAW THE SAILOR STANDING UP THE GLASS FALLING FROM HIS HAND WHEN IT HIT THE GROUND THE TOP BROKE OFF AND SPILLED OUT ALL ITS SAND THEN THE SAILOR WALKED UP TO THE SEA AND WADED TO THE BOAT BUT INSTEAD OF PULLING UP THE ANCHOR HE SIMPLY CUT THE ROPE AND THE LAST THING THAT THE CHILD SAW AS THEY WALKED OUT OF SIGHT WAS THE SAILOR AND HIS SAILBOAT SAILING OUT INTO THE NIGHT
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