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Call me the devil, call me the end

Call me the great destroyer, I've been

A king all along, you've got me wrong

I've kindled my fires alone, now I'm gone

I've been all you don't know, I have shone

Bright, burning, I have my might

You have your yearning, to be right

I have my will to be alive

Call me a killer, call me on my descent

Call me the evil you wage war against, I stand

A greater good known, to soar on my own

To soldier through these broken bones, so I disown

Your derision, your decision to compose

A symphony against me, I have my dreams

You have your yearning, to be free

I have the world I've seized

From the grip of dead words, the slip of a sharpened blade

I have the strength to stay awake

You can keep sleeping, or open your eyes and see me

For who I've always been

The devil that you called me

And the god who taught me

To breathe

The killer you thought me

And a heart that sustains these

Endless beatings

Call me callous, call me indifferent

Call me disastrous to all that I see, I believe

In an end justified by the means

In a death without regret, a life led

Without defeat, so come no one or

Come one and all, I've a thousand weapons at the ready

To defend, offend, dissent, and end

Your force fed hypocrisy.