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capitalist arithmetic

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you look out across the street
what is this commotion all about?
there's a smell across your nose
and the smoke is getting to your eyes

it's not an act of war
it's just a solution of arithmetic

it's not your fever rising
it's just the phrasing of your politics

i swore, i'd close my eyes
keeping to myself
working on the line

they're closing off the roads,
and beating people in streets
they say we started it,
but i say they're lying through their teeth

it's not an act war,
it's just a way they keep their capital
it's not your fever rising,
it's just a violence they make casual

i swore, i'd bide my time
keeping to myself,
working all the time

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from mass observation, released August 7, 2020

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Mass Observation is a remote collaboration from Davis White (Lorelei; We Capillaries; The New Lines) and Hewson Chen (Lake Ruth; The New Lines). The music can be loosely described as post-punk, with a slightly different character from their other bands. Recorded in a VA living room and NYC kitchen cupboard during the COVID-19 quarantine, some themes from current times are certainly in play here. ... more

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