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Reality Check

from Riven by Nick Harper

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Voted off...

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I got voted off today and I never felt so free
Time I made my getaway
I've got places to go, people to see
Yes I tried to stay to play if not to win
But try as I may the votes kept pouring in
But it doesn't mean anything
As if it ever meant anything

Reality check in the green room
Bag up the rider, hugs in the wings
I've got my girl I've got to get to
Supercolliders in our sofa springs

Two kisses for my little stars
They take away the worry lines
I never dreamt that I would get this far
In these hard, gladiatorial times

Where am I going?
With these thoughts inside my head
Where there was stomach for the fight
Is there yet only cheese in there instead?
But does it mean anything?
Could it ever mean anything?

I got voted off today and I never felt so free
Time I made my getaway
I've got places to go, people to see
Yes I tried to stay, but just to play
I don't want to win
But try as I may the votes kept pouring in
Got to go
But it doesn't mean anything
As if it ever meant anything

God, man and the Earth
Fighting for places on the show
Countless Emporer's thumbs
Get repetitive strain texting who's got to go

Three crosses up on high afar
With their names on signs
It must really matter who they are 
In these hard, gladiatorial times

Where slaves fight slaves
In the pantomime decline and fall
Lust turns on love
As if there's nowhere near enough to love us all

And the lines are now closed
To the public at large
You will not count
But you will still be charged
The results are in
And who leaves can be revealed
In no particular order, here's the deal:
Corruption, greed and robber banks - it's not you
Ignorance and intolerance - it's not you
Cruelty and torture from above - it's not you
Peace, freedom and love - it might be you

We've got talent for teasing and training the hounds
Talent for fixing all the battlegrounds
Merciless mercenary moral makeovers
And waging war on the weakest pushovers
Come dine with me Come dancing come killing
Come see the world for the blood-stained shilling
Snog marry avoid compassion
Embarrasing minds are back in fashion

I got voted off today and I never felt so free
Time I made my getaway
I've got places to go, people to see

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from Riven, released October 1, 2013

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