Everything We Thought Was True Was Not True

Music: Ogive No. 3
By Erik Satie. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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Everything we thought was true was not true. Everything we thought was right was wrong. The leaders whom we idolized were madmen, Mass murderers, whose crimes we helped along. We were the volunteers for genocide, The dupes who gave out leaflets for the devil, For whom obscene dictatorships were good And our own democracies were evil. We were the organizers of the poor, The builders of unions, champions of justice, Sacrificing self only to serve A mortal yearning for significance. We were blind in service to our passions. We were deaf in service to our need. Now we must drive the truth straight through our hearts That we might die at peace with what we did.