So what’s the price to pay for peace of mind?
When all you’ve done is price me out?
We are the ones who build it up.
While they’re the ones who tear it down.
Building designer walls of gold.
What’s left remains are still unsold.
Measuring life by foot and square.
Another vacant life in despair.
We’re breaking ground for the future Ghost towns.
Rotting parallels beneath the ground.
Blurred out the flaws and edges with a fresh coat of paint.
In this endless search for some kind of trust in the city of rust.
Destroy what dignities left here
Dreading the silence I once sought to find.
Stacked up like catacombs, we’re counting homeless like they’re sheep.
We are the ones who build it up.
While they’re the ones who tear it down.
A sight left to see that’s so unsettling.
Maybe someday reality will be better than my dreams.
credits
from Self Titled,
track released March 7, 2023
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Blake Townson.
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