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The New Normal

from Instinctive Drowning by Chris Orrick

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And everything was different then / After the hospital I told myself I had the chance to live again/ I'm gonna change this shit/I'm gonna kill the part of my brain where the pain exists/You know that part of me that had me left for dead/On a hospital bed knowing the infection spread/Because of self-medication/It couldn't help me then/But the beginning of my story helps to tell its end/I couldn't figure how to start this/I hate that typical introductory rap song/Factory wrapped in its over-produced cartilage/I want that bone marrow, there's no buffer between us now/I've been heartsick/So consider this catharsis/I moved out of that apartment/But took its baggage with me, now something's damaged in me/And it's been digging deeper, a sickness/Give the reaper a kiss and lick the litmus/The gatekeeper went missing, MIA on a Sunday/My demeanor is death/It's either that or forgiveness, don't forget this/The equilibrium switched, the new normal is hopeless/I've been swimming in it but no one noticed/So I don't need your prognosis CHORUS The equilibrium switched, the new normal is hopeless/I've been swimming in it, but no one noticed/So stop looking for signs and stop looking for motives/You stare at the stars, you're losing focus/The equilibrium switched, the new normal is hopeless/I've been swimming in it, but no one noticed/The new normal is hopeless/The new normal is hopeless VERSE And everything was different then/The possibility of my life being taken but it didn't end/Seeing life through a different lens/I told myself that I would never lose my grip but then I slipped again/Looking at the stars from under the surface/Drowning out the noise of the world's circus/The paranoia's getting real/So don't you tell me how to fucking feel/People think I'm such a popular dude/Like, you toured the world making positive moves/You should be happy, have some confidence too/Keep trying to make a point that they're not gonna prove/And I feel overwhelming guilt from it/I know I should be happy and I know I should be proud/And I hate the fact that I feel nothing/And even if it's wrong, I'd do anything to feel something/So I don't know if I'll make it the next forty odd minutes/But if I don't, fucking forget it/I'm feeling heavy as lead/There's poison in the water and a bullet in my head CHORUS The equilibrium switched, the new normal is hopeless/I've been swimming in it, but no one noticed/So stop looking for signs and stop looking for motives/You stare at the stars, you're losing focus/The equilibrium switched, the new normal is hopeless/I've been swimming in it, but no one noticed/The new normal is hopeless

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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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