Assessing risk, afraid to choose, though there’s nothing left to lose.
So chronic substances we use.
The flesh that’s sweetest is the bruise.
Don’t need to tell me life’s unfair.
People hurting everywhere.
I should have known how this would end.
We look away but can’t pretend the lack of agency portends our inhumanity towards men.
Don’t need to tell me life’s unfair.
People hurting everywhere.
It’s like the rest don’t even care.
People dying of despair.
Who cares?
We’re always stuck here in this churn so distracted we don’t learn.
Past the point of no return from this sociocultural burn.
This controlled cultural burn.
Premeditated cultural burn.
Cultural burn.
credits
from Thoughts & Prayers,
released September 29, 2022
20151018
Drums and farfisa: Jarrett Nicolay
Music and words written by George Fox, published by The Krill Building, ASCAP. Mixed and mastered by Jarrett Nicolay and George Fox at Mixtape Studios between Spring 2021 – Fall 2022.
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