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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv1rYcepTEQ&list=RDKv1rYcepTEQ&start_radio=1

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If this is to be my corner

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Than allow me to claw at it.

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If this is to be my alley

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Permit me to rend fangs,

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Tight, into its impertinence.

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If this is fate

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Than I want to rip it.

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If this is to be my future,

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Than I want to carve into it;

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I want to maul it

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And leave its broken frame

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As a warning

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For those ignorant deities 

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With enough audacity

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To tell me what I am to be -

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To tell me what I should be -

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Or to laugh at me,

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Assuming quiet compliance

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Is no more than an exercise 

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In simple subservience. 

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Reviews

[John the Baptist]

It's not exactly the same, but something about this offering reminds me of Henley's "Invictus." There is the same defiant spirit held up to whatever gods may be, a kind of manifesto that says, I am what I am; deal with it. I will run my own life. This Promethean take your best shot attitude does not always end happily, but it is honest.