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this is how the west was won:
through genocide and segregation
this is how you build a myth
the heroes and the villains that they're fighting with

this is how you build a wall:
tell a big lie to protect the small
call one side savage and one side strong
and hope to god you're on the right side and nobody proves you wrong

and the truth is never pretty
but i'm pretty sure it's better than
the big lies that we tell ourselves,
the cowboys and the indians
and i am just one man inside the mess of all this history
but big lies follow little ones
and this is how the west was won

this is how you build a man:
clamp down every single little goddamn feeling that you can
and if you can live with what you've done
when the war is over, you can fight another one

and the truth is never pretty
but i'm pretty sure it's better than
the big lies that we tell ourselves,
the cowboys and the indians
and i am just one man inside the mess of all this history
but big lies follow little ones
and this is how the west was won

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from Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Stuff I Made Up To Sound Interesting, released April 17, 2020

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