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That Was The Decade That Wasn't

from Temporary Foreign Workers by The Neutral States

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We sensed that it would come undone, unravel like a sweater when we turned on, tuned off, cut & ducked & run and when it finally came unglued we were so stoked that they'd caught on that we forgot that they would drop another shoe. We still imagined we were free. I played the part of Kerouac so hard that I forgot a part of uh, then suddenly I sussed the score. The writing on the wall said "throw the towel in" but I came back for uh That was the decade that wasn't: 3/4 horseshit, but the rest was sorta pleasant. How could we think we would survive when every artifact we spit absorbed into the group-mind of the hive? With the co-opters up to their old tricks we thought we could disguise ourselves by singing like old-timers from the sticks. By then we'd blown our shot at heaven but by brightening the corners could consider maybe almost breaking even? Though I came to the party late, I wish someone had told me earlier that selling out would feel so great. I caught a taste of something fine when I learned to stop worrying and love the baby one more time. I think about it to this day; it's an exercise as rewarding as counting down the alphabet backwards from Y to K.

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from Temporary Foreign Workers, released July 15, 2014

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