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Calamine Addict

from Workmen by Work by The Empiricists

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When your skin blushes up
And your kindness is stretched out
Antidotes of adventure can’t save you now

I’ve held your butterflies in the septic tank
The way it boils at the heat of a notification
And simmers down at the sight of quality
All your heroes have been put down

Don’t think I don’t mind your lapses in attention
Your fish tank glances across the storyboard halls
And I love you and I love your wife
Though I wish I was her in the afterlife
I rub the bruise in a little further
I advertise how I’m maligned
The world is my satellite

You always sound so dreary
In your wake-up calls to the milkman
I know you were told you could be anyone
But that’s only if you don’t care about the people’s sum
It’s hard to rip off the dollar store bandaid
In this marketplace of expensive emotions

Getting sick from the stench of my soup
I go back to bed with my sheets of navy blue
Like an infant with no toy to chew
It’s like I’m a calamine addict
Someone who’s enamored with numbing the bite

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from Workmen by Work, released October 4, 2022
Calamine is a type of cream used to treat bug bites. I use it as an overwrought metaphor in this song for using external remedies to repress unrequited romantic feelings.

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