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I am your shining windows I am your tall, brick walls I am your rail-ways and train engines I am your conveyer belts I am your stock parts I am your young line boys I am your cigar-smoking, fat-cat bosses I am your Ford automobiles and Technicolor TV’s I am your idea of perfection I am your broken windows I am your toppling, mortar walls I am your rusted rail-ways and broken-down locomotives I am your robotic arms I am your lead paint I am your Chinese labor I am your cocaine-sniffing, thrid-world-oppressing bossess, I am your Toyota cars and LG televisions, I am your idea of perfection I am the old and the new I am the sights that roll past my rolled-up windows I am the city and the suburbs I am the quietly dying I am the voiceless mind and its cries for help I am the future and the past I am the dream I am the death of the dream I am your idea of perfection and also, your nightmare of an idea
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Jun 19, 2011
Jun 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM UTC
Old America (Ode to Chattanooga)
I am your shining windows I am your tall, brick walls I am your rail-ways and train engines I am your conveyer belts I am your stock parts I am your young line boys I am your cigar-smoking, fat-cat bosses I am your Ford automobiles and Technicolor TV’s I am your idea of perfection I am your broken windows I am your toppling, mortar walls I am your rusted rail-ways and broken-down locomotives I am your robotic arms I am your lead paint I am your Chinese labor I am your cocaine-sniffing, thrid-world-oppressing bossess, I am your Toyota cars and LG televisions, I am your idea of perfection I am the old and the new I am the sights that roll past my rolled-up windows I am the city and the suburbs I am the quietly dying I am the voiceless mind and its cries for help I am the future and the past I am the dream I am the death of the dream I am your idea of perfection and also, your nightmare of an idea
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Jun 19, 2011
Jun 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM UTC
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