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Built On Swamps

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From the top of Highgate Hill
The city looks like Gotham through the mist and rain
These place names seem to follow me around
I watch the swollen river almost lapping up against the path
Lay shallow roots in the mangroves
I won't build myself to last

Don't you know that we are reckless young itinerants
We'll be feckless to the bitter end
We were promised the planet, well, look at the shit that we inherited
But we won't implode, we'll probably disintegrate
Delayed life goals, we're having fun at any rate
We're getting by but we'll never meet the yardsticks they celebrate

And putting off these big decisions isn't fear of commitment
It's fear that I've still got nothing to commit to
This town was built on swamps and this won't last
Built on swamps,

Hanging off the edge of a decade of uncertainty
Scream into the void, "I'm not letting go!"
There's nothing waiting for me there I know
And experience pays so you pay for the experience
And most of my friends are only ever gonna rent
First chance these bastards got, sliced up the welfare state
Well, they never gave a shit about us anyway

And putting off these big decisions isn't fear of commitment
It's fear that I've still got nothing to commit to
This town was built on swamps and this won't last
Built on swamps
And so fuck all these hopeful visions that next year will be different
It's a vanishing point, forever distant
This town was built on swamps, not built to last
Built on swamps, we're sinking

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from Memory Machine, released October 25, 2017

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