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Be a man and suffocate
Learn to love the place you will inevitably hate

Succumb! Succumb! to the clientèle
Who will kill your butterfly and leave you in the diving bell

Befriend all the company
They're the only ones to remind you of your sanity

Bolster up your vigilance
It's the only state of being that'll mean you'll ever stand a chance

So you begin with an illness
And i'll begin with a cure
Once i've had it checked
This remedy is yours

So your return for another
Which the doctor has put on to repeat
Despite the fact he has no idea
What he's trying to treat

Script after script after script after script
Came each one I wish I could have ripped
And thrown out of the system
But can they really not afford to to buy Sumatriptan?

Suits and salaries would come
And empty out our galleries
And regurgitate some fallacy
About an agony-ridden family
And yet my apathy can understand your tragedy

Risk after risk after risk after risk
From the spitting addicts afflicted by existence
When the law doesn't help you as a form of resistance

Script after script after script after script....

But that doesn't mean i'm conflicted by my interest
That doesn't mean i'm conflicted by my interest
That doesn't mean i'm conflicted by my interest
That doesn't mean i'm conflicted by my interest
That doesn't mean...

I'll leave every day
Knowing I didn't change the world
Thinking about the different ways
Conversations could have unfurled

There's no recognition
And you can't expect there to be
From a job this menial
That somehow means everything to me

So you will create a false sense of worth
When you join the patients on Fluoxetine
When a job begins to hurt

So you will learn to tolerate this mess
And you will learn the art of
Keeping your feeling suppressed

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from The Dispensary Sentence, released March 23, 2015

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