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Central Business District, why do you punish me?

from Brigands, Thieves, and Romantics by Joseph Hewer

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Dreamed of living in the city
Where there's people who care
But life is colder, and I'm stuck inside a crowd
Can't you see you're tearing me apart?

Romantic visions of gazing at the sky
But the stars won't fall for us
Romanticise the time you know I'll never spend
And sell it to me.

But when you've no one else to call
You'll call me
When you're out there on your own
I'm here
And I never seem to learn
So teach me
Where do we go from here?

I've seen the movies and this is where it all
Treats me like, I know that I deserve
I've gave you everything, but you're never satisfied
How much more do you require?

And when I've no one else to call
I wander
Past the people and their cars
And their habitual consumption
And when you've killed all of the words
I'm silent
My "identity" is yours
So dress it
Up in rainbow painted shorts
And while you're at it
Where do we go from here?

I'm unsure of myself, and I'm beginning to doubt that another empowering t-shirt mass-produced by a team of unpaid, unempowered woman in
Sri Lanka is going to provide me any clarity.
Central Business District, why do you punish me?

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from Brigands, Thieves, and Romantics, released January 26, 2020
Hamish McBurney - Performance

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