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Steven Wesley Guiles - Cancel Me

from Irreloquent by Stephen Wordsmith

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If you're listening to this in the far-flung future, I wish to submit that this album was fair for its time.

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We spend today committing tomorrow's atrocities
Automatic and unconscious in our trivialities
Bringing shame and disappointment to each little face at once
Of the children of the children of our great-grandchildren's sons

And though we don't have platforms
Stand on soapboxes well-funded
By the suits to reaffirm and bless the sins of many hundreds

We all have shows to broadcast
In this brave new century
And if I offend the listeners, they can always cancel me

Cancel me
For all the creatures I abandon to their fate
Only serving to be severed and then served upon a plate

Cancel me
For the carbon and danger I've bestowed
As I ride my stallion glass and deadly metal on the road

Cancel me
For all the clothing, both the plain and branded name
As I cover up my body in my judgment and my shame

Cancel me
For all the children I bring new unto the earth
As I leave in the hands of fate all those abandoned at their birth

We spend today committing tomorrow's atrocities
Automatic and unconscious in our trivialities
Bringing shame and disappointment to each little face at once
Of the children of the children of our great-grandchildren's sons

But it's no call to forgiveness for the fiends of history
Every segregator, slaver, genocidal rogue, all three

Let us toss them in the lake and tear their volumes from the shelves
Just make sure we leave enough room in the chasm for ourselves

Cancel me x 5

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from Irreloquent, released September 22, 2022
Lyrics by Stephen Wort
Vocals, composition and all instruments by Steven Wesley Guiles (ASCAP): www.newcoolnow.com and stevenwesleyguiles.com
Mastered by Thomas Meidell

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