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Verse 1
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In the twilight
of a time
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There emerges a need for man to com
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prehend his own bitter fate
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Finally resigned to the inevitable beyond,
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he searches the ages
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Desperate for stories of assurance,
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redemption and hope
Verse 2
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Such tales fill page upon page
with enough ink
To flood a thousand valleys,
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and drown the tallest tree
But there is one tale that as yet been told
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The story of... The Outsider
Verse 3
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humanities at a crossroads
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The people have retreated
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shuttering their once carefree lives
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From unseen enemies which seem to
plague not only the physical form
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But the innermost thought
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Driven by panic, compelled
Verse 4
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The masses begin to devolve
Once dear neighbours
turn wary foes
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Brother against brother,
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sister against sister
Verse 5
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Achievement and ambition are dismissed
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As heretical, or worse,
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Even nature itself is scorned
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Choked with suspicion and fear
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Voices do not dare to sing
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Imminent defeat is all but assured
Verse 6
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But in the darkest hour
Whispers begin to tell of a figure
emerging from the darkness
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A being without a name,
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Part presence, part idea they say
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As if the very force they describe
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has existed for eons
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A dormant seed awaiting nourishment
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Word of radical acts...
Disobedience, non- compliance
spread among the people
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At first fearful, then defiant,
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Whispers turned to cries
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and the cries into screams
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And tend to cower no more the
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Whose talent behold as they
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exact revenge on their captors
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pentant nor the bold
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Now the fire is lit,
Verse 7
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smouldering in the belly of humanity
It cannot be extinguished,
for the stories The Outsider endure
Even as evidence of its presence is debated
with the passing years
Verse 8
Messages, dictations, warnings
Stories, such as these...
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