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So Many Words

from Print The Legend by The Stranger

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Instead of protection,
Here's a cop raid.
Instead of enlightenment,
Here's a fanatic tirade.

Instead of culture,
Here's a shopping mall.
Instead of comraderie,
Here's a high school hall

So many words
That promise satisfaction
So why are we disappointed?

Instead of freedom,
Here's the system.
Instead of the meaning of life,
Here's religion.

Instead of loving arms,
Here's a deadbeat dad.
Instead of everything,
Here's all you've never had.

So many words
That promise satisfaction
So why are we disappointed?
This perfect world they tell us to aspire to
Is just a big lie

Instead of fulfillment,
Here's a dirty high.
Instead of a future,
Here you're getting by.

Instead of a soul mate,
Here's a big fat whore
Because maybe you just don't know
Who you are anymore

So many words
That promise satisfaction
So why are we disappointed?
And if you take offense to how I act jaded,
Well,
Just deal with it.

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from Print The Legend, released September 13, 2013

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The Stranger Louisville, Kentucky

This project originally began as a flood of songs I wrote in the mid-Aughts. That was soon followed by experimentation with guitar tunings, out-there fuzzboxes, &c. I decided to put some drums to this and make it a duo, and The Disclosure was born... and then The Disclosure changed its name to The Stranger, thanks to that other band Disclosure loved by Pitchfork (good for them).

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