Nothing Changes (Everything Stays The Same)
(lyrics and music by Rainey)

(Sung by the Poet:)

Nothing changes, everything stays the same
Nothing changes, all that once was, remains
Nothing changes, everything stays the same

Nothing changes, everything stays the same
Nothing changes, everyone craves their chains
Nothing changes, everything stays the same

It's such a comfort for us to know
That when we die, it's all gonna go
On, just like it's always gone on
And when we lay our heads down at night
The dreams we dream will fade with the light
Man can stand the Known more than he can the Unknown
And which would you prefer to be?
The chaos of imagined reality
Or the everyday horrors you can call all your own?
It's not enough to want just to change
Only the most immediate pain
True altruism's an incomprehensible code

Causes nothing changes, everything stays the same
Nothing changes, all that was, will remain
Nothing changes, everything stays the same

So this is what damnation is
The replay of a million years
Of hating, fighting, fearing, lying
Torturing each other, and then
Dying

Are we cursed to continue on making the same
Despicable errors again and again
Till nothing of goodness or mercy could ever exist?
What's worth protecting? Our own worthless hides
As greed, fear and hatred eat us up inside
Can somebody tell me, what have we become?

Nothing changes, everything stays the same
Nothing changes, everyone craves their chains
Nothing changes, everything stays the same

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