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Here’s a story, I’ll try to not bore you, but I implore you to hear me out.
You know that ‘so-called’, friend that you don’t mention, the one we all had our doubts about?
I heard a rumor, more than a whisper, it’s actually a fact, a stone-cold truth
That he’s a racist, a paid-up member, of an online patriots’ group.

He gets his clothes washed by his mother, the only girl he’s ever loved, Stone Island jumper for his birthday, he’s no angel but he’s all she’s got.

He left school early, with no ambition and his friends are all the same.
his weekends, knocking one out to, Birth of a Nation with his fantasy girlfriend.
He goes on marches, shouts all the slogans, loudly declaring that he knows the ‘truth’
About the fate that befall our country if we don’t heed his racist views.
He gets his clothes washed by his mother, the only girl he’s ever loved, Stone Island for his Christmas, he’s no angel but he’s all she’s got.
And she doesn’t like her neighbor's ‘cos they came from a foreign land, she’s never spoken to them either, too busy defending her castle made of sand.
And then he got arrested, he sent to prison, he spent six months hiding down the 'block, she took him up some, some 'gear, he's no angel but he's all she's got.
He had a heart-attack one Monday, after staying up for days, none of his friends came to the funeral, they all hate each-other anyway.

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from Welcome to Wilderness Hill. (Album 2024), released January 1, 2024

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