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Artist: The Cult
Canonical path: /the-cult/life-gt-death
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Life > Death
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Life > Death
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You break the man, leave its shell on the ground
What have you done with your own lies, your words
Shed everything on you, speak everything I’ve seen
So kill your jealousy and watch you bleed
You can’t destroy them, the beauty and the youth
You’ll never be them, you never had the truth
You can’t destroy them, the beauty and the youth
You’ll never be them, you never had the truth
I lay down with the beasts on the ground
The prophets cry in every tear I pray for ever
Shed everything on you, speak everything I’ve seen
So kill your jealousy and watch you still believe
You can’t destroy them, the beauty and the youth
You’ll never be them, you never had the truth
You can’t destroy them, the beauty and the youth
You’ll never be them, you never had the truth
Destroy, destroy, destroy it all
Why I don’t understand
Why you destroy everything so beautiful in your hands
Come home
And hate strips it away
The "yes" inside the men
But we’ve a golden loose
And hang you from the stars
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