La Stop Ertunettie

from Drooling Rainbows EP by Nyentek

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V1:
Faces poke through windows
Like teeth without a grin
Laughing all the way
Not realizing their sin
All their youthful faces
Multiple shades of skin
Joking all the time

They may have come way down
Or way up from town
It really makes no difference
The problem still compounds
Inside this shining village
Who’ll call them out
On flaunting their privilege

V2:
Early in the morning
They’re chauffeured right to
The place where they have learning
But maybe they will fight to
Waste a little time here
Spend a lot of time there
All the time saying “I don’t care”

Folks in other countries
Walk a dozen miles on foot
To only have a fraction
Of what these people get
If only they would please
Check their premises and look toward
Opportunities for action

Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity

V3:
Some days I wish I could shout
Into their delicate ears
“Wake up now and take
Advantage of these years!
You have no idea of the cost
When this is squandered
What you will have lost”

Close your mouths for half a second
Open up your ears
This world includes so much more
Than just you precious dears
Have you ever had to do a chore?
I thought not
So stop faking those tears

V4:
Don’t just blame this system
This one exists for your sake
All its problems? I can list them
But make no mistake
Each journey has its merits
It’s only up to you
To share it
Don’t just blame this system
This one exists for your sake
All its problems? I can list them
But make no mistake
Each journey has its merits
It’s only up to you
To share it

Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity

V1:
Faces poke through windows
Like teeth without a grin
Laughing all the way
Not realizing their sin
All their youthful faces
Multiple shades of skin
Joking all the time

They may have come way down
Or way up from town
It really makes no difference
The problem still compounds
Inside this shining village
Who’ll call them out
On flaunting their privilege

Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity

V2:
Early in the morning
They’re chauffeured right to
The place where they have learning
But maybe they will fight to
Waste a little time here
Spend a lot of time there
All the time saying “I don’t care”

Folks in other countries
Walk a dozen miles on foot
To only have a fraction
Of what these people get
If only they would please
Check their premises and look toward
Opportunities for action

Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity
Don’t just let this be
A lost opportunity

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from Drooling Rainbows EP, released October 12, 2016

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An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”

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