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Four Part Cure

from Instinctive Drowning by Chris Orrick

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VERSE Be careful of the gods you worship/They portray the world as perfect, but that's not how Earth is/And science says there's many universes/And religious verses tell us God controls this version/So if there's other universes and we're not alone/Maybe there's other gods and they got their own/Maybe they go to bars together hanging out/And find things about their universe to brag about/Like, my universe is fourteen billion years old/It's got a planet in it full of superheroes/And I designed it all myself and they enjoy it/It's amazing that these motherfuckers still haven't destroyed it/And then the gods get on their Facebook/And they neglect to show the negative and only celebrate the good/They pick and choose the better parts of their creation/And only post about us when their ego needs inflation Do Not Fear Death VERSE And I don't have a killer instinct/Only killing I'm doing is when I'm filling this drink/Only feeling I'm feeling is sipping Victory Gin/So I give up and let familial history win/Rather my body's destruction than letting misery in/If it means feeling numb, then God deliver me sin/I don't wanna die young, but I don't know to quit/Some people turn to the Son to know to live/Some people turn to a gun and know when to quit/Some people vanish and run where no one exists/I know some overcome, take control of their shit/But the older I get, the more I succumb /I start to wonder why we're all so obsessed /With a life we're not positive even happens at death/The more I grow it's easier to accept/ That we have no control over what happens next What is Painful is Easy to Endure VERSE The irony of my life will be how long it lasts/And fame can make a signature an autograph/Power turns a peasant to an autograph/A check beside your name determines follow backs/It's the little things in life that drive you up a wall and back/While you ignore the bigger problems and it all goes bad/Cuz pain is either chronic or its brief, mild or intense/And rarely ever in between/The subtle differences amount to context/Cuz people talk about their pain like it's a contest/Never let them shame the way you feel/Only you can tell you if the pain you feel is real/Now let me break character for a second/Go to Camera 2 and stare directly into you/The problems in your mind can be a strength/And I've never solved a single one of mine because I drank What is Good is Easy to Get VERSE Growing up there wasn't money in the house/And Mom had thirty liquor bottles underneath the couch/Sometimes I had to shower heating water on the stove/And went to school with dirty fucking clothes/And Mom was never ever happy/She went to rehab and we went to latchkey /I know I use my music to complain/As a straight white male with straight white male pain/A decent life is easy to attain/When the color of my skin can win in a rigged game/So if you grew up poor and white/Recognizing privilege doesn't take away your plight/But, imagine walking in a club/And your skin color had people calling you thug/For the music that you like or the liquor that you sip/For me, the good life is easier to get

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from Instinctive Drowning, released August 26, 2016

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Chris Orrick Detroit, Michigan

Chris Orrick is the patron saint of a poisoned world. The blue-collar MC writes spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs. Think Bukowski on an eloquent bender, swapping wine for whiskey, a notepad for a glowing LED screen, the race track for the recording booth. These are anthems for the irate, over-educated and under-valued. ... more

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