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Paradise I
03:02
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“Remember me Joe? Where are we?”
I won’t breathe this ash in anymore
We’re both asthmatic!
If you won’t acknowledge my grip
I won’t drag you out of here
Even though you’re lying.
If you’d look up you’d see it’s raining outside
I’ll miss your face but here you seldom smile.
We’re stagnant in paradise
It rains all the time
But it won’t when I build mine.
I won’t wilt for fear of change
I would wait but they think it’s all too late for them
Stacking shelves to fill stock days
To distract your habitual existence and quotidian shame
If you’d look up you’d see it’s raining outside
I’ll miss your face but here you seldom smile.
We’re stagnant in paradise
It rains all the time
But it won’t when I build mine.
You’re all derelict!
It’s such a shame but we’re not the same here
Oh well!
You have it on good authority
I will never come back
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Paradise II
02:08
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We’re not wrong we’re just biting our tongues
And aren’t we all fucking parasites?
We all live in the ash and the smog of this bulldozered paradise.
We merged a plethora of separate panics into one problem we are collectively sharing.
When you asked quietly “where are we Joe?”
And I said “What? Yeah you look fine!”
I was just evading what I now know to be bleak discontent with my own life.
But it’s too late for me
You don’t need me to help you
You’ll find a way through
And I don’t want you to help me
I’m dead already
Of course I feel you tug at my arm – it’s distracting!
We're not lost we're just not looking up
I don’t need you to guide me
We're all statues stuck in our shame
just let us rust here without you.
Go and build your new paradise
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