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Artist: D'Angelo
Canonical path: /dangelo/the-charade
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The Charade
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The Charade
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Crawling through a systematic maze
And it pains to demise
Pain in our eyes
Strain of drownin', wading into your lies
Degradation so loud that you can't hear
The sound of our cries (doo, doo)
All the dreamers have gone to the side
Of the road which we will lay on
Inundated by media, virtual mind fucks in streams
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
Perpetrators beware say a prayer if you dare for the believers
With a faith at the size of a seed enough to be redeemed (doo doo)
Relegated to savages bound by the way of the deceivers
So anchors be sure that you're sure we ain't no amateurs
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade
With the veil off our eyes we'll truly see
And we'll march on
And it really won't take too long
And it really won't take us very long
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