Tidal (Instrumental Version) - Protest the Hero.mp3

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[00:01.51][01:57.96]Awake, unfazed
[00:03.46]Morning light tells of the dawning day
[00:05.26][02:01.52]Just like any other day
[00:07.37][02:03.88]Brush off sleep's touch
[00:08.65][02:04.97]Clear midnight's haze
[00:09.75][02:05.82]There's nothing extraordinary here
[00:11.93]A flaccid world, unfit, unclear
[00:14.15][02:10.46]Desperate for something more
[00:15.46][02:11.93]Something more than getting by
[00:18.17]Empty faces on the sidewalk
[00:20.03]Listless and limping to a lie
[00:21.99]Of a bright and pleasant future
[00:23.98]Of a blue and cloudless sky
[00:26.09]A phantom whisper sounds deceiving
[00:27.84]It brings with it the question "why?"
[00:29.90]We work until we are unable
[00:32.02]Then locked away until we die
[00:37.14][04:56.50]But then it happened
[00:40.83][04:59.95]Everything changed in but an instant
[00:44.90][05:04.75]A violent burst of brilliant colour
[00:49.26][05:08.77][05:12.49][05:16.51][05:20.44]Somehow close and somehow distant
[00:53.15]From a whisper
[00:55.16](To a scream)
[00:57.25]To a hoarse, distorted laugh
[01:03.12]There is no hope of restitution
[01:06.95]There is no ever going back
[01:11.26]In dreamless sleep
[01:12.58]One ponders death
[01:13.40]Hold back the fleeting final breath
[01:15.62]Knuckle white, slipping grip
[01:17.53]Jaw clenched tight, and quivering lip
[01:19.62]This cannot happen
[01:20.66]This cannot be
[01:21.73]Escape a life of anonymity
[01:23.86]To be a drop into the sea
[01:25.98]A drop into the sea
[01:28.99][04:10.46]Whose ripple turns to tidal wave
[01:32.67]That sweeps the shores it once forgave
[01:36.50][04:36.45]But crashing down upon the shore
[01:38.22]The sea is silent evermore
[01:59.74]A morning light tells of the dawning day
[02:08.37]A flaccid life, unfit, unclear
[02:15.05]There's got to be something more than this
[02:20.77]It sounds so deceiving
[02:25.21][02:29.07]Begging the question "why?"
[02:34.02][02:41.94]Why do we work until we are unable?
[02:37.99][02:49.67]Why do we work until we die?
[02:45.85]Why, why, why do we work
[04:05.68]Drop into the sea
[04:14.80]And sweeps the shores it once forgave
[04:20.86][05:24.92]The sun, the moon, the Earth
[04:23.95][05:27.85]Conversed and agreed
[04:28.70][05:32.97]The people of the world must pay for its atrophy
[04:43.77]The sea is silenced evermore
[04:52.00]Evermore
[05:41.36](What unknown face now breaks the silence?
[05:43.28]What tipping force disturbs the balance?
[05:45.36]Swift and sober comes a voice, offering a bitter choice)