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Cracking The Mask Lyrics by This Machine Kills

Death In The Audobon Ballroom

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Drive this stake into the cracks
Forced to adopt this life behind these masks
Out of survival or out of growth, we find ourselves
In our attempts to scream, we must break these masks
We have been taught to hate ourselves
We have been taught to deny our own roots
Internalized oppression is nothing new
They say to drop everything that's not American
Institutionalize it with propositions
There's an immediate need to provide support stability
We have been taught to hate ourselves
We have been taught to deny our own roots
Internalized oppression is nothing new
We will not be the other
We will not be the other
We'll rock the boat, we'll rock it, rock it

About “Cracking The Mask” by This Machine Kills

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"Cracking The Mask" appears on "Death In The Audobon Ballroom".

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