21 - The Paradise of Lost Hope

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    These flowers smell of death.
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    Luna, it's a lie that you're giving hope.
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    You're saving no one.
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    Where are you going?
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    You came to seek salvation from me, right?
[00:57] ---
    There's no need for sorrow anymore.
[00:59] ---
    I shall save you from the Ruin.
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    Is that really true?
[01:09] ---
    Are you really saving everyone?
[01:19] ---
    A drop of my blood returns one
    to life and grants it eternally.
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    What everyone who comes here longs for,
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    I give.
[01:37] ---
    A drop of my blood returns one
    to life and grants it eternally.
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    What everyone who comes here longs for,
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    I give.
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    Then what of Dune?
[01:56] ---
    Was Dune saved?
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    Dune refused my blood.
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    And he was destroyed.
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    Even though death is
    something that must not exist.
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    Must not exist?
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    Death is terror.
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    Death is darkness.
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    Everyone would be happy forever,
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    if only they could escape
    from death, from destruction.
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    They would all be able to enjoy
    their lives in peace and happiness.
[02:32] ---
    No.
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    That's not true.
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    If that's so, then why do I suffer so?
[02:43] ---
    So you say what I'm doing is wrong?
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    Stopping the Ruin is wrong?
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    And I want you to stay here.
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    Why?
[03:00] ---
    I want you to protect the
    flowers in Dune's place.
[03:11] ---
    Ringo, let's go.
[03:16] ---
    Wait.
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    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[03:56] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
[04:00] ---
    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[04:05] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
[04:18] ---
    I try to escape this harrowing reality
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    Everything I hoped for in my life
    turned out to be an illusion
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    A flood of emotions,
    struggles that lead me astray...
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    I just want to cling onto them
    and move forward, forward!
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    On these shattered hills,
    under a sky of rust,
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    you and I are fraught with
    life like azure flowers
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    We dream that we're bubbles,
    nestled together,
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    and yet I'm not ready to wither yet!
[04:53] ---
    Hey, for what reason were we born?
[04:57] ---
    Hey, for what reason did our lives cross?
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    I'm scared because I don't know,
    so I take your hand
[05:06] ---
    Right now, I want you to
    firmly squeeze mine back
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    "The Paradise of Lost Hope"
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    My body is rusting away.
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    Yet, Leda,
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    though my surface rusts
    and my movements dull,
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    my senses feel as though
    they are sharpened.
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    In the darkness, I search for Casshern.
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    Endlessly.
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    Let's hurry.
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    To Luna.
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    Wait, Luna.
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    I shall make you mine.
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    You're not going?
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    Let's go.
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    We made a grave for Dune.
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    There's nothing else for us here.
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    Lyuze.
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    It's fine.
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    I don't want salvation from Luna.
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    Ringo!
    Ringo!
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    I'm okay. Let's go.
[06:55] ---
    I don't...
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    want to stay here...
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    Is this yours?
[08:32] ---
    Lady Luna's clinic is up ahead.
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    You should go get in line
    before that girl falls to Ruin.
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    Come here after she's healed you.
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    Go.
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    We understand.
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    What was that?
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    It was like they loathed us.
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    The people in the town don't like
    the shade of death that follows us.
[09:36] ---
    Because they've finally
    been saved from the Ruin?
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    Yes.
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    That town belongs only to those
    who will live for eternity.
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    I wonder...
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    Why is it that I always wished
    I could avoid the Ruin...
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    yet I hate that town?
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    At dawn, let's go see Luna.
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    That's why we came all this way.
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    But...
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    Is she right?
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    Is going there and seeking
    salvation from her the only way?
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    Are you prepared to accept
    the Ruin, like Dune?
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    I understand.
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    I'm sorry.
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    But what should I do?
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    You can feel the rust on my surface.
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    It's all rough.
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    My lips, too...
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    I want a smooth surface like yours.
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    But...
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    If I receive healing at that town,
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    I feel like I'm going to change.
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    I'd rather stay like this.
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    Lyuze...
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    I...
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    I can walk on my own, Casshern!
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    I can walk!
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    I'm fine, really!
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    Ringo...
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    Don't be rough.
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    Ringo!
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    Ohji?
[12:32] ---
    Ringo!
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    Ohji! Ohji!
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    Are you okay?
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    You haven't met Luna yet, have you?
[12:43] ---
    I met Luna.
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    What?
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    But I don't need her salvation.
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    It's not salvation.
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    What Luna gives...
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    is death.
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    Lady Luna...
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    Lady Luna, give me salvation as well.
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    Please, give me salvation...
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    Salvation...
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    Long ago, the world was
    overflowing with eternal life.
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    Man, too, knew the secret to live forever,
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    and fled far away from death.
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    Braiking Boss felt this wrong,
    and began to exterminate the humans
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    with his vast power.
[13:45] ---
    But...
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    Mankind survived at Luna's feet.
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    Just barely, but indeed surviving.
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    And from within the ranks of the robots
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    rose those who worshipped her as well.
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    Braiking Boss thought this
    a hindrance to his plans,
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    and ordered her assassination.
[14:10] ---
    But...
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    it was death that Luna gave.
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    Death?
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    Yes.
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    In a world overflowing with eternal life,
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    she granted a lifespan that
    a normal being would have.
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    A lifespan?
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    She said that life could only be truly
    lived with the existence of death.
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    But Luna is definitely
    stopping the Ruin now.
[14:51] ---
    Thank you, Lady Luna!
[14:57] ---
    No... Well...
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    From what I investigated,
    I'm certain that the Luna of the past...
[15:03] ---
    You're saying what the past Luna did,
    and what this Luna is doing,
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    are different things?
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    Why?
[15:13] ---
    Did something happen that changed her?
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    I see...
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    I thought I had to stop you
    from seeing her, Ringo, but...
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    This is... Luna's healing?
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    That's Luna's...
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    If you meet Luna,
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    the Ruin will really go away, right?
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    Ringo!
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    Let's go!
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    Ohji...
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    Ringo...
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    Go to Luna and have her heal your Ruin.
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    Come.
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    I don't like Luna.
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    Ringo...
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    She does stop the Ruin.
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    But it's wrong,
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    like the sun not setting.
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    Like night not being night.
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    Ringo is sensing that unnaturalness.
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    That may be so.
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    A world without Ruin may
    be strange and unnatural.
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    But it's better than death.
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    Those who accept her healing survive,
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    yet they may simply be
    living, and nothing else.
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    Even so, I don't want Ringo to die!
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    Come. Let's go, Ringo.
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    Ohji, stop.
[18:00] ---
    Lyuze... You go, too.
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    Do you want to die?
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    No, no, no!
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    Stop it, Ohji.
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    Casshern, will you fight?
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    Casshern...
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    They're in the way.
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    Will you fight, Casshern?
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    If you deny the concept of survival,
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    then why do you fight?
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    Your immortality enables you
    to spout such platitudes.
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    Casshern...
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    You understand neither
    the pain nor fear of death!
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    Casshern, you alone are immortal!
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    Casshern!
[20:04] ---
    Casshern, what are you doing?
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    Casshern...
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    Casshern is breaking...
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    The pain of Ruin...
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    The terror of death...
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    No!
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    The beautiful Casshern,
    who should be immortal...
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    Why does he abandon his perfect life?
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    Casshern...
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    The sun, as bright as it...
[21:47] ---
    should be...
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    Casshern!
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    I'll never see you again
[22:05] ---
    I've already said my goodbyes
[22:11] ---
    But I'm sure I'll look back sometimes
[22:18] ---
    I'm still struggling someplace
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    And your voice will always echo about me,
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    guiding me and calming my doubts
[22:35] ---
    Will I always travel
    alone, from here on out?
[22:42] ---
    Oh Lord, do you hear my prayers?
[22:49] ---
    I want to be happy
[22:52] ---
    I want to be unhappy
[22:55] ---
    I don't want to feel alone
[22:58] ---
    I want to feel isolated
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    I want to stay the way I am
[23:05] ---
    I don't want to be the way I am
[23:08] ---
    For the living contradiction that I am...
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    Please forgive me
[23:29] ---
    Those who seek, quake in fear of death.
[23:33] ---
    Those who do not, know life.
[23:37] ---
    Next time: "A Drop Called Eternity."
[23:41] ---