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A Journey Across Town

from A New Joy by Artificial Pleasure

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A Journey Across Town

I walk at 117
One foot on the bass drum
One foot on the snare

A journey across town

Through the underpass
Camera straight ahead
I puff on a cigarette
And play with my hair

A journey across town

Train pulls in
From blurry to near
I step on and I can hear
The chugga of the tracks
And the squeal of steal
See a thousand floating lights

Credits pop up in the space in between
A journey across town
The train zooms past the screen

Make my way down
Through the aisle
Grab the bars at the side
I can see it, in their eyes
They all ain't got no time

A journey across town

Credits pop up in the space in between
I burst out the train and I'm first on the street

I walk at 117
And I picture myself as someone else
Somewhere, sometime
Some place else that's not my own
And this ain't no Brooklyn or Seoul
This ain't no Kreuzberg or Tokyo
It's sweet daydream
I'm lost in my head

Feel my face lit my neon light
Hear the buzz of machines
The rain is falling down
And the air is thick with steam

The street shines back blurred reflections
Like all the movies I've seen
My eyes are sharp, my teeth pure white
And my skin has that digital sheen

I can feel eyes all around me
But I know to keep my cool
A slow zoom into my eyes
Cogs turn one by one
Shots faster and faster
I wait for the beat then i run

I'm running fast than I ever could
People move out of my way
I know every corner, every turn
Every dark alleyway
I reach the train as the doors close shut
Look them square in the eye
As if to say
"I wish I could stay, but I ain't got the time"

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from A New Joy, released October 30, 2020
Produced by Dominic Brennan
Engineered by Steph Marziano

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