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Living In A Box

from Blunt Instruments by Nyentek

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Features NaturalReaders reading text from a Cards Against Humanity card.

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“Getting married, having a few kids, buying some stuff, retiring to Florida, and dying”

Part I – Childhood:
Cry for air
Life’s so hard
Where’s your food?
And the warmth?
You feel pain
Down below
Never mind
It’s only pee

Life is a thrill
Certified miracle
Magical journey
Through all emotions
Life is a thrill
Certified miracle
Magical journey
Through all emotions

Start to speak
Conscious thoughts
Filling your mind
With perspective
Yet the world
Revolves around
You

Life is a thrill
Certified miracle
Magical journey
Through all emotions
Life is a thrill
Certified miracle
Magical journey
Through all emotions

Part II – Teenage years:
You’re your own person
Perspective changed
Now begin to
Think for yourself
It is time to
Separate from
The home that raised you

Mind is open
Trying to fit in
It could be said you’re
Impressionable
Mind is open
Trying to fit in
It could be said you’re
Impressionable

What’s with these folks
Crusty as hell?
Cramping your style
Despicable
You wish they would
Just go away
Nothing they do
Is ever right

Mind is open
Trying to fit in
It could be said you’re
Impressionable
Mind is open
Trying to fit in
It could be said you’re
Impressionable

Part III – College & Leaving Home:
Finally you’re free
Getting out of there
Wind blows in your hair
Now you’re on your own
Spending your time alone
Learning how to live
It’s not really easy
You come to see
They gave you so much
Independence gained
Respect for them built
Enjoying your visits

You find that this is so complicated
Mixing emotions, as if you’re a cook
Thought you wanted to be so different
Now you see value in how they live
You find that this is so complicated
Mixing emotions, as if you’re a cook
Thought you wanted to be so different
Now you see value in how they live

You’re setting foot
In a new land
You’re finding yourself
Isolated and
Wishing you were back
With your family
It can be hard to
Assimilate in
Unfamiliar
Spaces and now you
Have to do that to
Succeed in your venture

You find that this is so complicated
Mixing emotions, as if you’re a cook
Thought you wanted to be so different
Now you see value in how they live
You find that this is so complicated
Mixing emotions, as if you’re a cook
Thought you wanted to be so different
Now you see value in how they live

Part IV – Career & Settling Down:
You’ve worked it all
Tables to tech
Try something new
Oh, what the heck!
This isn’t bad
I’ll miss the time
That I once had
It’s expected
Work nine to five
Rest of my life
I have become
Slave to the system

It’s a great job
It pays the bills
Though I’m not free
It challenges me
It’s a great job
It pays the bills
Though I’m not free
It challenges me

Time to buy a house
Build up my own nest
Only take me twenty years
Surely it’s the best
Tie my life to a house
Do I own it or vice-versa?
Who cares if I can impress
That sweetheart across the fence?
Maybe they’ll come live with me
Be my partner, let’s see
Wait a year or two or three
You’ll see I have become “we”

It’s a great job
It pays the bills
Though I’m not free
It challenges me
It’s a great job
It pays the bills
Though I’m not free
It challenges me

Part V – Critique of the Pattern:
What if I don’t want to settle
Fill up my life with routine so predictable?
All my soul lost to my damn boss
That is a trend I can’t comprehend
Our human lives are worth so much more
Than sitting up high on the 31st floor
But if you say that to some businesspeople
They’ll only smirk, then show you the door

I don’t want my life sterilized
I refuse to be predictable
I don’t want my life sterilized
I refuse to be predictable

Maybe my viewpoint is flawed
A symptom of privilege not easily bought
I think this applies to people all over
It doesn’t matter if our beliefs clash
Nobody’s life is only worth cash
Try to free up, and you might have a blast
Stop self-destruction that turns you to ash
Live a new life that will make itself last

I don’t want my life sterilized
I refuse to be predictable
I don’t want my life sterilized
I refuse to be predictable

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from Blunt Instruments, released August 8, 2018

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

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