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from ICON LIVID by Z the Stranger

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Look at me. The one evaporating.
Eventually my being will not exist.

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Got the sickest flows
Got you ill, it shows.
Get that vegetable.
Hot box like the kitchen stove.
I’m popping digital.
Still cop the physical.
I’m looking kitsch and gorgeous. No need for riches, no.
The kiss of death is tempting when he’s under mistletoe.
Remember everything special that’s what you’re living for.
I’m an icon livid at the world I’m living in.
Politics are run with the mind of a 1950's kid.
No matter what, change is inevitable. We be cheffing it where the kitchen is.
Delusions aren’t solutions. The conclusion is we’re fixing shit.
I’m not talking slower so listen faster.
I’m after the next one up the ladder and the latter and the latter after that.
We never mattered to the fatter cats.
They're mad as a hatter if they imagine us unwilling to take everything back.

Imagine pleasant nonsense.
Imagine needing emotional support when others are conscious
And not late into the darkness.
Imagine trying to turn a profit off your feeling toxic like it's not sick.
Imagine not getting nauseous at the thought of it.
I promised myself that I'd never suck upon a glass breast.
In just a year, I'll put that promise through a crash test.
Dummy stays intact, dummy never takes a sip.
Dummy breaks, dummy heals drinking it's weight in gin.
Muug yd sa. Dra uha ajybunydehk.
Ajahdiymmo so paehk femm hud aqecd.
I wouldn't be sane without a distraction.
It feels like reality itself is an abstraction.
Unnatural bad habits unmatched by the sad fact
That tragedy has to happen regardless of past actions.
I live by writing passages about the madness.
I practice, hoping I'm past it.
My only journey: to last.

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from ICON LIVID, released June 15, 2020
Production, writing, and vocals: Cameron Francisco

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Z the Stranger Rockland, Massachusetts

Allow for all to breathe air as clean as Eden. I will drown in the River Styx and keep the planet eternal, along with all the love in it. Your own beauty is yours and no one else's. I will inject the earth with the divine milk of a ghost's breast and the living will never go thirsty. I still remain a stranger to everyone. ... more

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