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An Honest Philosophical Question

from SLAVES TO THE ILLUSION (2017) by Bob Westfall Moonlight Poet

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This song is a passing feeling that still hasn't passed.
Strangely, the lyrics were written while I was sitting on a bench, watching little kids play in a park. I guess I was wondering how fucked they really are. What will the planet look like when they are sixty years old? What will be left for their grandchildren?...

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- An Honest Philosophical Question-

Sometimes I can't help but wonder
Is this world anything but a prison?
I'm getting everything but younger
And I wonder, am I really living?
I feel chained to the progress of man
Enslaved by the illusion of money
Western civilization is a joke
No longer funny.
Round and round I spin inside
A system designed to fail
The politics of a one track mind
Has left the body frail.

Can't trust what I hear
Can't believe what I see
I've been programmed to fear
The freedom inside of me.
Praying for the savior to come
The human race is on its knees
Trapped under the thumb
Of big oil companies.
Looking out at the moon and stars
Where everything is equal
We put robots on Mars
And refuse to feed our people.

Seven billion and rising
The last thing this world needs
Oh, it's not surprising
Is another mouth to feed.
Sometimes I can't help but wonder
Is this world anything but a prison?
I'm getting everything but younger
And I wonder, am I really living?
Darwin, God, or indifference?
Ponder the thought instilling
The reality of our insignificance
Is thrilling.

Copyright Bob Westfall 2017

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from SLAVES TO THE ILLUSION (2017), released October 21, 2017
Written and performed by Bob Westfall.
Drums by Sean Keough.

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