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The Cost of Living

from Time Dilations by Rumbletramp

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Every year the cost of living's different
The panic and the fear are always free
Half the headlines lie and the rest will make you cry
You pay a quarter for the paper just the same

You can buy a kodak camera off of craigslist
Just about for any price you'd name
Within a year those hallowed memories stagnate to hollow truths
Especially nostalgic forms of blues

But who doesn't have some trouble
Letting go of the past sometimes
My fingers won't let go
I'm gnawing at my arms just to survive

You can keep it all
You can keep it all
I'll just keep on lovin and fightin
And runnin and ridin away

I wish someone would tell me what's successful
About trading in your fleeting grains of sand
Just to struggle to rent space on the streets that you help pave
Til the hour glass runs out and it's the end

You can burn all of the shit in your apartment
Build a bonfire and feed it all your things
Sleep under bridges and in ditches alleyways and on park benches
Sing songs and try to keep out of the rain

And hope that the cops don't show up
And arrest your friends or shoot your dog
The world's all bought and owned
Friend, you aren't alone, just stay alive

They can keep it all
They can keep it all
I'll just keep on lovin and fightin
And runnin and ridin away

Til I am six feet deep or they lock me up and throw the key away

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from Time Dilations, released February 11, 2015
Corina Penn-Bartoo
Mission Ingram

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