Reason or treason

Reason is a fickle tool

Beware we use it as a rule...

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As men of reason we set out,

To reason what it's all about.

Priding ourselves we take great care,

Turning things over, here and there

Dotting the l's and crossing the Tees Confirming conjectures that put us at ease

But lift the veil, take a step back

Our ideas and convictions buckle and crack.

Under reasonable agreements

We artfully hide

The thoughts and actions of our darker side.

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Readily we reason it's perfectly all right

For conflict, for murder,

To lie, steal and fight

In the name of Religion, Nation or Tribe

We spread hatred and conflict that eat us alive Hatching avaricious and dubious pursuits,

In unspoken agreements and nefarious cahoots, We righteously reason our homicidal roles

Wrap them in agreements and swallow them whole.

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Reason always leaps to justify

The contradictions and consequences

From which we fly

So we fondly covet our despotic enabler

Flattered and deceived in its false praise

For it is cunning and quickly rallies

To cloak our Simeon ways.