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This City Is An Oyster

from Penniless Philanthropist by The Dobermans

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This city is an oyster
And I am the pearl
I don't expect you to understand
You're the sand

It's a charming little burg
That time has lost
It's official colors
Are beige and rust
As many abandoned factories
As they have shops
There's a statue of a wrestler next to a clock
At the old train station

This park specializes
In rotten trees
More corner bars
Than I've ever seen
Glad I don't fit in
That's just fine with me
My smile wouldn't break
If it slid into the lake
Gone without a trace
Erased from history
And left an empty space

This city is an oyster
And I am the pearl
You people are the sand
Washed back by the rip curl
Grown men and the elderly
Act like they're still in high school
I told them
'You're a silly goose
Drinking everyday
You turned your poor liver
Into beef jerky'

This place isn't for me
It's not soft
Not quite rough
They don't like me
Cause I'm not liberal enough
I like unions but I voted for Trump
They didn't count it anyway
Ripped it out the ballot box

So cosmopolitan
until you're different
Then they want to slam your head
against the pavement
Tear your skin off
Use it as a lampshade
Inject hydrochloric acid
Straight into your brain
Try to make you a zombie

In Fall they watch that sportsball
Everyday
Somehow men in tight shiny clothes
Isn't gay
They wear red white blue purple yellow and green
At the same time to support local teams
They treat me like a criminal
Cause I don't have a truck
A bunch of kids
And a fat ugly tramp
That's not the kind of life
That I want to live
I'd rather be alone
Than take anything people here
Could give

There
I'm done
Now it's your turn
You can run your stupid tacky mouth
But save your screams for Hell.

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from Penniless Philanthropist, track released December 5, 2023

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