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Am I Human?

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Am I Human
If I can't feel why I'm here?
Am I Human
If I want to disappear?
Am I Human
If the light, it burns my skin?
Am I human
If I don't know right from sin?

There's a danger in me
This blatant stranger in me
And I can't fight
From what I can't hide
This fuckin' anger in me

And I've tried to pick up these pieces
Of the things that I've shattered
And the shards that I've lost
Were the things that really mattered

But too late did I realize
That I'd become so numb
That the glass of all my memories
Cut me till I succumbed

To the things that I hate most
Me, myself and I
That I'd become a ghost
Was I still human when I died?

Am I Human
If it was never really me?
Am I Human
If there was no more I could be?
Am I Human
If it's the one thing that I'm not?
Am I Human
If it's the thing that I forgot?

It was never what I meant
All the empty words I spent
But they never gave a damn
I had no reason to repent

Cause this world, it bled me
And it fed me
A diet it meant to end me
But you know what I still envy?

The people who can look into the mirror
And see that they're alive
Not some shade who lives fear
Transparent from his lies

Cause when I scream up to the heavens
I can see all that I lack
In the sound of roaring thunder
From the whips upon my back

Crack
Like a mountain coming down
Tsunami on the rise
Still hoping that I'll drown

Cause I've found

No help left for humanity
No, not from where I'm standing
Cause all that's left's insanity
Spun from this human branding

Am I Human
If I never really cared?
Am I Human
If I wasn't always there?
Am I Human
If I lived inside the dark?
Am I Human
Even after I depart?

Am I still human?
Thanks to XeruFury for the tag and the prompt (xerufury.deviantart.com/journa…).

Not gonna do that tag bit, but your prompt got me inspired, so I did bother to roll out a song to attach to it. I envisioned it as a rap, strangely enough, despite that it's not typically my genre. I did change the line structure a little (obviously) to suit it better, and opted it as a chorus rather than a verse. Hope you don't mind and hope you enjoy.
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NiThirio's avatar
Really deel. I hope this is not counted as necroposting. Describes everything perfectly - I read it so many times I thaght of a trap version melody.