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Smokestack

from Mitigations by Evan Diem

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"It's exactly what you think; it's completely literal, but you can think it's a metaphor if you want to."

Convincing yourself that your self-destruction helps others; self-destruction.

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Down where the rocks meet the water
ascending like a pillar is the cigarette tower.
Presiding and rising up over the town
giving every single living thing power.

Steam flowing up out of your concrete lungs
try to keep the pressure built up inside.
God Of Energy plagued by the people
trying to make gods of themselves in time.

If it hurts you just look at it from another angle,
another point of view.
It's gonna get hot but you've gotta stay cool

Boiling point struck a couple times over
smoke builds deep down in your throat.
Eyes fog as your power lines fray
things chained to the bedrock rising to float.

Stress fractures in your bones
the same ones forming all over your skin.
Catastrophic meltdown
collapsing from within.

If you're falling to keep everybody else up
devolving until they know you stayed tough.
If you're falling to keep everybody else up
dissolving until you've earned all of their love.

If it hurts you just look at it from another angle,
another point of view.
It's gonna get hot but you've gotta stay cool

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from Mitigations, released October 1, 2015

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Evan Diem Syracuse, New York

Relatable songs on overly-specific subjects.

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