The Gongs At Midnight

What did we do wrong

Should the people have not sung

Too many believe it's midnight, and we can hear the gong

As the bells ring, there are things that can't be undone

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Time so short and fleeting

Knowing the truth, none were right

Going through life, so many we are meeting

Barely a thought to them as we hurdle towards night

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Friends and lovers etched in the memory of time

All the debts that added to the picture so ugly

Why did we not spare every dime

To stay with ones we love and be just snuggly

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As the gongs sound louder and the world grows sadder

Racing to the end and the great unknown

People so separated getting only madder, and madder

Denying the truths that they're repeatedly shown

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When it's all over, the things that you chased

None of it will help beat the gongs at midnight

Your life was so unnaturally paced

And always were you in the nasty fight

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Louder they get

And people will start to scream

Hands begin to shake as the worry and fret

This was not the great and barely reachable dream

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For only together can we slow the gongs as they get louder

It takes a village, or so they've said

It also takes a village to make a world of which we'd be prouder

Coming together, hopefully, before most of us are dead

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From the one side to another there's the constant need to yell

Rushing to the streets, demanding to be heard

Only the ones will know the sound of the final bell

For too many have lived their lives without learning a good word

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Ding, Dong, the gongs ring twice

Barely noticed by the most likely to go

Those that you trusted didn't look upon you so nice

For safety is something that without you, they'll know

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Had those poor and peasant slaves of the system come together

The ones at fault would have felt the pain

Now each shall know the darknest weather

And unfortunately still look upon half the world with disdain

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The sounds of the gong, as the bell rings midnight

Tis the inevitable end of what you all know

The most fortunate will sit and look on with delight

We didn't get together to stop their dammed show