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Pennies

from Gap Year by MC|DC

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With cash spent, I laugh 'cause I lack purpose, feelin' nervous, 'cause it's all so worthless

You can't be empathy friendly within the tensions of Tempe, tendin' to trend towards envy amidst my friends in their twenties,
I sit with plenty of pennies minted in years gone by, as if my century's sent me these cents to sear my thighs,
near my side reside these copper chips, opposite of proper fit,
meltin' through my hips like they're hot drips of chocolate,
looking for a slot to stick, but always slip away,
dropped houses, caught in couches, all about is where I stay, days wallowed in my squalor, scrape dirt from a shirt collar,
I should run/Run like that reverend from Hollis,
my brethren acknowledge all this, black-balled 'cause we lack polish, is it only cool to slack off in college?
Yeah, but to back off a small bit is to sit and admit that you're not shit, not special, not different, not it,
illegitimate pick to permit your me to proceed through a parapet, pal, get with the program or quit,
man I trip out at times at how I find that nickels and dimes line designed fabrics as I get left behind,
a maverick benign, flagship of the average, kids pine for a chance to become the divine,
while some are inclined, the rest wind up as bitter, faux-go-getters, stuck as parents of a life with no sitter,
inherently rife with low vigor, slow rigor mortis is creepin' in,
I'm sleepin' 'till the weekend begins,
lens pinned on the death of a dream deferred, star beams observed, what we are seeing's only what they were,
but I walk un-erred or unconvinced that the value of one pence is sinkin', 'till we ask where it went,
Lincoln, what were you thinking?

With cash spent, I laugh 'cause I lack purpose, feelin' nervous, 'cause it's all so worthless

Dag nabbit, I'm trapped in these bad habits,stay static like buck stuck in traffic,
my luck passes, rapidly, waning, the tragedy gains strangling the mangled remains, my brain's hanging,
dangling in the balance, advent of this stagnant type silence was a day clad in cap and a gown,
my class packed in a brown, round, arena to sound joy at the scene of the peak, before it all goes down,
we ignore what we seek until it calls to be found,
I'm appalled to be bound by indecision, that N.V. --no vision
black sheep, but I feel like a pigeon,
stuck in a hole that I live in or slowly die in, wishin' I didn't buy in to what I that was a given was only lies,
caught inside a box where my options are tied between decisions I'm proclivin to despise,
uh huh,
they told me follow your heart, but my heart led me to party,
swallowing beers in the park, as I regret what I'm starting,
never get dressed 'till it's dark, do you expect me to win?
Tryna de-stress, but it's hard, I don't know where to begin,
it's been unbearably grim, the odds are slim that I'll make it,
it's kind of scary to swim in a tank of sharks when you're naked,
you can't compare me to them, they think I'm smart, but I fake it,
I'm living life on a whim, I act like nothing is sacred,
you think it's art, but it isn't, you think I'm deep, but I'm shallow,
you think I planned, but I didn't, and yet my output is hallowed,
be my name, I excite when I write plainly at night,
I play the game in a way people say that they like, but without the same fight,
I'm so broken, go slow through the motions, thinkin', "'change', now that's a strange notion",
so I remain loafin' on a porch or a corner, open pints of a porter horded in hands like vice grips,
I'm tryna go on Amazon and order some nice shit,
are there more of you like this, amidst a quarter-life crisis?

With cash spent, I laugh 'cause I lack purpose, feelin' nervous, 'cause it's all so worthless

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from Gap Year, released November 12, 2014
Lyrics by MC|DC, produced by Precise Thoughts

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