Open Letter from Spectrum by Stoneburner

I have answered all your questions
Explained my actions
But your facts are
predetermined
My fate decided
From your side
I’m uninvited
You say I'm scary
Make you wary
Say you love me
But distrust me
Extrapolated reasons
Of my behaviors
Make me a danger
But you lack the information
To understand the situation
I have clarified
And explained
Provided evidence
That contradicts
But your beliefs
Are goddamn Teflon
And nothing fuckin sticks

Chorus
In this life, you better choose a side
You’re not alive unless you risk your life
Neutrality is not a point of pride
You’re not alive unless you risk your life

You’ve given up your ethics
In exchange
For not dealing with
The complications that come from thinking
You’re uncommitted in your actions
You’re not a fighter
You’re liar
Standing aside
While others fight
So you can see which ones survives
You’re glowing with your golden pride
Basking in the satisfaction
Knowing in your lack of action
You didn’t participate
Alienate
Or accidentally associate
With someone whose beliefs might eventually incriminate
Because commitment makes you sick
Being in the middle does the trick
To keep you safe from punished
While still avoiding any judgment

Chorus

If you don’t want to hear opinions
Don’t put ideas where we can see em
Don’t ask questions you don’t want answered
Or expect statements unexamined

Interaction is a risk
And Staying silent keeps you safe
You don’t get one without the other
Even in your special case

When you make it to the end
Of this big bullshit, we call life
You can say with satisfaction
That you safely dodged the strife
You avoided making problems
Pushed away the big decisions
Spent your life as half a human
Made it all the way to dying
Without ever fuckin living

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