Gather round inspired avengers Let us mold and entertain Tales of righteousness and the guidance of salvation Fables of the beasts we've slain For the foes we've devastated For the families left for dead For the hypocrites and their wide eyed aberrations And the virtuous days ahead The dust on the shades masks the blood, though it fades, there's no thinning Once so beautiful, now so meaningless Mutual plights, methodologies, passions, beginnings They can't see, in all they do, That they're just like you. So here's to lies my brothers sold me Here's to truths I should have known To woeful thoughts and memories, regretful lamentations, kneel before our consequences, pray For the seeds we could have sown The dust on the shades masks the blood, though it fades, there's no thinning Once so beautiful, now so meaningless One spawning dread, one breeds fear, no one sees no one's winning But believe, in all I do, that I'm just like you Where the line cuts through the chaos Where it fractures, this is your loss Transparent polar filters, a split down the screen We can highlight just how kindred we seem The dust on the shades masks the blood, though it fades, there's no thinning Once so beautiful, now so meaningless Reflections of greed - mirrors, not meditations - misgivings This is real, and for all you knew, He was just like you!