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Slow Death

from Total Collapse by The Empty Gestures

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this song is about the endless soul-crushing monotony of high school. fuck high school. the "you have no power here" part at the end is kind of me asserting my independence from this compulsory structure that kind feels like it really doesn't exist for my benefit and doesn't trust me very much. i often feel really in control of my life outside of school when i'm doing things like traveling to different cities or driving to shows so its really a bummer when i get to school and i'm kind of stripped what feels like my fundamental independence and treated condescendingly. fuck high school.

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crowded room moving forward expressionless no conclusions to be reached static static sedentary slower day by day slip into a catatonic natural decay there is nothing left to do to fill this void an empty promise of a future takes its toll on me i don’t want to be another broken narrative half a person just the product of the lies you told to me cut down crawling forward expressionless practice what you fucking preach preach i don’t need this shit from you i’ve already wasted so much time following this path but you won’t tell me where fucking it leads there is nothing left to do to fill this void an empty promise takes its toll on me i don’t want to be like you just another product of something we can’t control you have no power here you have no power here

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from Total Collapse, released December 1, 2015

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