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    Go, or: XI's Remedy to His Own Unwillingness to Attend to the Needs of His People

    Interim in Terra, track 4

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    the energy you're wasting with your bickering
    would be better spent against our common foe
    but most of you are clearly not cut out for that
    and the rest of you will march to let them know

    a few of you are willing to murder for your cause
    but i'm not interested in watching you destroy yourselves
    so i'll just go

    ----

    i have advisors who advise me about problems
    and i hear about them every single day
    we've got a terrorist, a war and people banging at our door
    some saying say 'use them'
    some saying 'throw them all away'

    but when it's time to solve these problems
    i can't bring myself to care
    so i distract myself with something
    i pretend that they're not there
    and they go

    ----

    but tomorrow and tomorrow and the next day and the next
    they will remain
    and every moment i pretend that we're not moments from the end
    i spend in vain

    ----

    i won't pretend i ever cared for this place anyway
    my apathy will never be outdone
    i won't defend as if the king, i will not sacrifice a thing
    i will not hesitate
    i will not hesitate to run

    but indifference is more harmful than a leader who you fear
    i'm not malevolent, for sure, and i would
    rather be anywhere than here

    ----

    so for now, let's all pretend this is democracy
    i'll step down on my own
    because my thoughts are intersecting with your voices
    at a single point alone

    ----

    i have no reason not to wish you all the best

    because as certain as i am that as a people you'd be damned
    there must be one of you
    who could guide the rest to greatness
    when i go

    ----

    the legacy is over; my inheritance is lost
    and i am free
    and i will wander unaccosted in the desert
    being who i want to be

    ----

    xi, this is not what you were born for
    so walk away
    so walk away

    xi, this is not what you were born for
    that's what they say
    that's what they say
    and i read you loud and clear
    i'll walk away
    toats a colons joint

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