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Demo 2010

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Note to self: don’t destroy you Just ‘cause they’re destroying everything else Looks like I forgot my own rule again It must be ‘cause I hate myself, how else can one explain The masochism of understanding consequence? And when he made off with the pot was it so hard to see You can’t abuse a system that you embody I don’t want to be living and loving just as long as I get paid Anyone can get paid I don’t want to die clutching to my chest all that I’ve made As if death won’t be the same I know death will be the same When they sell the same dream Two blocks from my grave While you’re up to your waist in privilege Do you really believe it’s just business? Don’t tell me this is part of any natural course Cuz I am a human, not a resource You’ve got a way with limits When they don’t apply to you Overwhelm the competition It’s not a playing field; it’s a fucking coup I don’t want to be living and loving just as long as I get paid Anyone can get paid I don’t want to die clutching to my chest all that I’ve made As if death won’t be the same As if death won’t be the same Apparently accountability doesn’t exist at the pyramid’s peak It’s nothing personal
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You don’t think you know me like you know yourself? You know better You can have your own life While I fix mine ‘til I can provide A shameless zest for modern distraction worthy of our kind Yeah, thanks for the advice When I wake up and wish I slept on the floor It’s not regret; it’s not how you think It’s what I ignore It’s what we ignore And I’ve gotten lost here Maybe you could make distinctions more clear Maybe we can last despite These fatalists; the glamour they invite When I wake up and wish I hadn’t at all It’s hard to explain; I guess I’m the same It’s your call We say, “don’t talk to me about vices” ‘Cause we’re all about ours We just call it a crisis Without fear of what’s above Without learning what to love No I won’t have to smile for every sip that I take I won’t say hi to anyone I won’t give any breaks I will be the same I will be the same I’ll feel the way I feel And I’ll resent the game
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Cut the loss that was my day Fall asleep in the fucking airport No one here can stay Golden hour’s done I’m 200 miles from home And I know there’s a pay phone And a bus station but I’m Not about to move from this fucking bench So this is what you call interesting? Show me something worth repeating Is there anyone here who can show me something? I’m having trouble remembering why I came I’ve officially succeeded in surrounding myself With excess that I despise I always assumed that you’d agree Eventually this shit stops being fun This leisure was never won But I guess I underestimated your capacity To grin and stagnate, say it’s all right So this is what you call interesting? Tell me something worth hearing So this is what you call interesting? Introspective? This is just disdain I’d like to tear down your ideals And wipe the irony off your face To make you look like the ghost that you are The ghost that you are I feel the same way here I feel the same way here I hate to say I knew it I hate to say So this is what you do here? Party like you just don’t care The callous is thickening

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released September 1, 2010

Recorded at Getaway Recordings with Jay Maas

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