I had limited time this week, so this is a point of departure at best. I wanted to make use of a little percussion instrument that I recently acquired as impulse buy from Facebook - one for my niece and one for myself. It is featured throughout and is responsible for this song.
lyrics
you’re sitting in the rush hour traffic
your memory is photographic
you wish that you could turn it off
you’re looking for the exit
you’re drowning in a sea of plastic
you can see the irony is classic
you’re tired of trying to get ahead
now you’re shopping for a helmet
you can fall apart
sweetheart
you were born to break
like the light at dawn
riding on a flimsy premise
all the way to golden empress
but you left your piece of mind
on your kitchen table
here they come with harried features
a business of backyard preachers
telling you to march it right
back into the stable
you can fall apart
sweetheart
you were born to break
like the light at dawn
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