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I long for revelation

A change to save the world

To separate black from white

No more blurring of the lines

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Heaven calls me a sinner

Dirty, vile, and evil

Hell sees me as potential

One more to make its own

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I walk among the shadows

Where children die young

Old men fear their pasts

And youth squanders itself

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Beauty in a mother's touch

Brutality in a father's fist

Cruelty in a friend's jest

Loyalty in a sibling's tears

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I am guilty of sinning

Of wronging my fellow man

Yet I am made of Light

As much as I am Darkness

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The lure of total freedom

Bound by no man's rules

The right of personal vengeance

Calls my soul its home

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Yet for my family's acceptance

I will remake myself every day

To see their smiling faces

No price has ever been too great

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To help a stranger in need

I do not even second guess

Considering the plight of an enemy

Is something I will not do

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So when Heaven calls me wicked

I cannot deny that claim

And when Hell curses my goodness

Neither can I say nay

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From God's hands I have fallen

Into many shades of grey

A flawed and imperfect human

Upon the battlefield named Earth

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