City Gritty

from A String That Picks Up Everything by Progress Band

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Filling all your time with diseases and pain
'cause there's nothing you know but the rain
Walking all night below fluorescent lights
just thinking of reasons to fight

You have a black-blood taste in your mouth
but it might just be something you ate
And a kitchen that'd make lucifer laugh
but you're not worried 'cause you guard well your gate

And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your ontology that keeps you on the brink
And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your history that keeps you at the sink

A letter called you up to the throne of the city
a step and a stumble, every footstep gritty
but for a second your eyes strayed from the ground
and you wouldn't admit it, but your god you had found

And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your ontology that keeps you on the brink
And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your history that keeps you at the sink

I must sleep off the death hanging over me
'cause I have been poisoned by life
I've been listlessly listing the things that have hurt me
I must sleep, I must eat, I must dream

And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your ontology that keeps you at the brink
And it's everything they told you it would be
and it's your history that keeps you at the sink

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from A String That Picks Up Everything, released August 28, 2020

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