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Story of the Year, "'Is This My Fate?' He Asked Them"
(2005)

Do you really fucking think that it's a choice
A way of life plagued by discrimination?
You're narrow minded and quick to judge
With bible belt tunnel vision

This is ignorance
Failure to evolve is failure to us all
When will you learn that this is where we fall?

"Is this my fate?" he asked them
They answered
Condemning him to burn
Rejected, forsaken
For being fucking born
I can't believe that this is still a question that needs an answer
A bigot's eyes
Judging lives based on the sex of who you fuck

This is ignorance
Failure to evolve is failure to us all
When will you learn that this is where we fall?

Burn
Judged and condemned to burn
When will you learn?


So I think this song is awful. Like, seriously, it sounds like something that I'd come across in Guitar Hero and I wouldn't recognize it, and then three minutes in I'd be like "WHY AM I DOING THIS, GAMES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" and then it would tell me to press the blue button and I'd panic and run out of the room.

... But I'm putting it up because I think it's cute when straight boys get their big cock-rock guitars all riled up over gay rights. Aww.