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God Forbid You Go Off Script

from A Worthwhile Endeavour by Dead End Drive-In

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In your earliest years
They’ll tolerate your tears
But you’re on borrowed time
You’ll need bullet-proof glass
When in front of the class
Casting pearls before swine
Because sincerity, sincerity
They’ll beat it out of you

This world so snide
Don’t want a look inside
So you better close the drapes
All your poetic tripe,
Set that trash alight
And descend the fire escape
Because sincerity, sincerity
They’ll beat it out of you

But may you find yourself
Earnest and elated
At times, be they seldom and few
Cuz even the remnants of sentiment have value

Flippant scoffs and groans
And sarcastic tones
will barrage past your lips
Scantily fortified
With such brittle pride
God forbid you go off script
Because sincerity, sincerity
They’ll beat it out of you

They say the truth shall reveal itself when you’re jaded and older
That beauty lives and dies in the eyes of beholders
That it’s corruptive, corrosive and a curse on your health
Better keep it locked up, keys tossed down a well

They’ll be trivializing the helm that you're manning
They’ll be stomping out all of the embers you're fanning
They’ll be siphoning your spirit and serving you the swill
So if you’re gonna fight ’em, prepare to die on that hill

When the heavens seem so deafened you’re tempted to unplug
And apathy is abundant and abused like a drug
May the hour be nigh for you to lean into will
Cuz the best of men have always lived and died on that hill

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from A Worthwhile Endeavour, released January 13, 2023

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Punk band from Vancouver, BC. You know. That one with the 3 guitar players. Gotta shred with existential dread.
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