Blind To the Shadows
A "didactic", philosophical lyric based on Dynaxiom 3384: Nostalgia can make us blind to the shadows, and 0550: On heroes: some are born, some are reluctant. The effect on the rescued is the same; whereas the effect on the hero is different: the former readily embrace heroism, the latter are conflicted. Many conflicted heroes grow to accept the conflict, but never completely reconcile it. They do it only in honor of the rescued—all the while they themselves feel vulnerable and abandoned, awaiting their own hero to rescue them. It won't matter if the hero was born or made.
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Be careful when you choose a hero--there's power in nostalgia
But it can make you blind to the shadows
The vestiges of the past can remain in place
You forgot the dark sides--hidden from grace
Blind to the shadows that sit in the sun
Appear again in a different form
Born heroes embrace the role
Reluctant heroes are seldom bold
We paint ourselves with the same brush
On the same canvas we thought stood for us
We made it together without seeing the shades
We think it's the greatest painting ever made
Celebrities and stars amid our dreary lives
Become the cult leaders to keep our dreams alive
The effect on the rescued is to look for fame
The effect on the hero is never the same
Blind to the shadows that sit in the sun
Appear again in a different form
Born heroes embrace the role
Reluctant heroes are seldom bold
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