We do not wish to wake from our sleep
We do not wish to give up from our beautiful dreams
And rather than being clothed in the richest fabrics
We are naked empty and alone
Amidst the ruins
We close our eyes to visions of poverty
While spending money we do not have
Just to forget how little is ours
Refuse to admit that everything is borrowed
Amidst the ruins
Moneylenders prosper, catching the unwary in their webs,
where their lifeblood is drained
So desperately we pretend the desolation does not exist
Too busy distracting themselves with the opiates of the modern world
Drugged they sleep imagining a different world
Of comfort and luxury
Give us the gilded cage
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