From the comfort zone of history on the lips of trusted loved ones
To the wounded fragile minds of angry youth
No sooner was it over than the memory made it nobler
A selective means by which to point the view
Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated
If it's all you can remember then it's been that way forever
And for six long generations it's been told
That among the fallen was tradition, that tradition was the mission
That the wrongness of the sin was not the goal
Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated
Does the color really matter on the face you blame for failure
On the shaming for a battles losing cause
If the victims and aggressors just remain each other's others
And the instigators never fight their own
Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Surrender under protest if you must
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