What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown

from Metallica – The Unforgiven Lyrics on Rap Genius

What the young man has felt and known all of his life, has never been accurately represented by how he acted due to his fear of the punishments that society would bring to him if he did so. He acts hypocritically on the outside because if he acted in accordance to his true feelings and knowledge, he would get further ridiculed and subdued by the arrogant society.

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