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I wear a bright pink mask
When I wander my town
With a river rushing through the underground
I wear a bright pink mask
Some people wish they could bask in it

I go back home and I’m baby blue
Misconstrued with something to prove
My inner facade
Is dependent on the mockingbird guard

If the city’s full of people like me
Who escaped small-town hypocrisy
I could never be one of them with a wallet so hollow

The mask gets sewn onto my chalky face
Plastered in waste and a duct tape cross
I bind my secrets in two layers of cotton

You have to wonder what’s all the fuss
As if authenticity means a lack of trust
To all those who prescribed expired ways of getting high

It’s never as glamorous as it seems
When you have the dough, they’ll let you roll with the game
Pick your life apart and you’re forced to fix it with purple glue
Aren’t you all at the age where resentments turn into forgiveness

You can repeat the truth
An objective one with dusty shelves of proof
But it’s not up to you
It’s decided by their caricature of God

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from Workmen by Work, released October 4, 2022
Remember those purple glue sticks? Those were the days.

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The Empiricists are a band from Rochester, Washington.

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