if "listen up, it's your fault, don't try to blame me,"
is all that you hear when your dear ones fall,
expect no help at all.
"if you want your old life, then you're crazy."
that's how you'll be met when you've spent a night
away from home.
but when you're there, you can't stay, no.
it's not fair, but when you're there, you go crazy.
step inside your old house, where you learned about fear.
don't be scared, there's a polyp in your mama's head now.
look around, it's the mark of an era.
it's the chemicals that cause the cancer.
calls for help will not be answered.
this is simply how we will relate.
the culture that we all take part in
leaves us feeling cold and hardened.
you will not give. you surely will not take,
when it's all for no one and none for all.
if everyone's for themselves, there's no one for us all.
but when you're there, you can't stay, no.
it's not fair, but when you're there, you go craz
Like winter branches lined with snow and ice, Sam Ray (Ricky Eat Acid, Teen Suicide)'s latest is delicate, spare, melancholy, and beautiful. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 3, 2018
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