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wanna break from it
Couldn't care less about the mood here
I wanna move from it
I wanna break from it
I wanna break from it
Conscientiously self serving

force your hand but my eyes are wide open.
Caught in the web of your self-serving plan.
Don't force my hand when my eyes are wide open.

Seeing is

there's nothing wrong
I’ve never felt like I belonged
Your self serving motives only prolong
It’s time you stop holding on
 
The same shadows you find

To self serving politicians
Amen
To a self destructive conserving
Population
The only one to blame
For this avoidable
Sucide
Amen

Yo
This is a mantra
For

spinning round and round
And this self serving purpose, the only one I've ever known

Because, raised on the outskirts of a one horse town
My mama had me

Slowly Surely

Jill Scott

Stop and Listen, Vol. 5

2000

Thought it was real
Thought it was
But it wasn't love

I just don't know where I should go
So, slowly, surely
I walk away from self-serving

Slowly Surely

Jill Scott

Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1

2000

Thought it was real
Thought it was
But it wasn't love

I just don't know where I should go
So, slowly, surely
I walk away from self-serving

Teeth

Cage the Elephant

Melophobia [LP]

2013

between the echoes of self-serving prophecy
A captain without his ship
A chief, a chief without a tribe
A raging megalomaniac who only speaks to hear his

Just open your mind
The world will wear out its pleasant disguise
These worn out words won't heal these tired hands
Or broken bones
A self-serving

Forced underground like a dirty little secret
They keep it zipped tight
Drowning in waves of the self serving lies
Undertow hearts try to keep hope alive
I

self-serving devotion

Falls apart
Falls apart

When will you realize
There is truth deeper than reason?
What will it take?
When will you realize? (Falls apart)

Slowly but Surely

Wayne Wonder

No Holding Back

2003

was good, thought it was real
Thought it was but it wasn't love
I just don't know where I should go

So slowly surely
I'll walk away from self-serving

Everything was fine
Everything was fine
Only under your control
Everything was fine
Everything was fine
Only under your control
Exposed, self-serving

fill now I observe from a distance

So I've forgotten about you and your vindictive self-serving ways
I just await the time you come to face the price

Humiliate, ridicule
And now I’m pissed
Not because of what you did
But how you did it without a thought or regret
You selfish, self serving, devolved
Waste

copied works of gold

leave this alone
(decisions killing you)
these words are only for her
(self-serving suicide)

imagine the sunset
sleeping on the edge

Self-Serving... At the expense of others
Save yourself if you can
We’ve always known human race
Is a danger to itself
Imminent, the end is walking toward us

thoughts
Tell me how you have not
Walled off and sterilized your circulatory system
With self-preserving, self-serving, inhibitory wisdom
I'll take a foolish

Nothing's sacred
Ego endures
Self-serving effigy, waste of a life but still ego endures
Nothing's sacred
Ego endures
Self-serving effigy, waste of a life but

and switch off our sense of fairness so we can blame the other side
To fool ourselves, we feed on self-serving bias,
A lifetime of these lies

We brand

no,

dont talk, not yet, too real

everything is over in a snap, and a twist, and a yank, and a jerk// and ive done gods work// self-serving

the threshold
Follow me
Now say goodbye to the self you left behind
The one who always lived a life, of self serving pride
Without a name
The faceless
Without

knows where we end up
What's the point?
Tell me why
If I'm not even willing to try
Don't want to be another brainwashed
Self-serving Trixie with the know

The people are searching to find their deserving
They hold back the image, desire forgiven
Their hatred self serving , the consequence disturbing