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How do you sum up life in shake-it-till-you-make-it America? One phrase comes to mind: you get what you get. Cus when were all on the hamster wheel, who comes out ahead?

Probably Jeff Bezos, but the song doesn't go that far with it.

From a TEDx after party to the killing room floor that is social media, we take a trip through modern ambition's most excruciating moments. But what do we get out of it? Well I'll tell you...

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She slips in a new line
It's Christmas for cross-talk
The bar is a beehive
My outline is all chalk

"What's moving with you?"
"No hustle, no play."
We grind like a tooth
A virtuous decay

Big chick energy
Small man malady
She might as well sing
We're slipping further away

I got my own concoction to comfort me
One part guilt trip, two parts anxiety
Ain't no one look like their profile do
We don't come for facts now, baby
We come for truth and I say

Don't slip through the cracked up
Glass on your phone
Who's kissing your ass
Whenever you get home?

We all need a pass
Some slack in the rope
Live young and die fast
You never know

What were you here for?
Why do you want more?
Like Daddy done said,
You get what you get

Ain't nothing about you
So what are you gon' do?
Like Mamma found out,
You get what you get

You got to not talk dirty, baby
I hear the royalty got sensitive ears
Some dissent ain't crazy, now
But coordination: that's a sovereign fear, come on

Don't tell anyone
We are what we do
This game isn't fun
But that's the case of use

We smoke it all up
The bottle run through
We're screwed, but so what?
There's work to do...

What were you here for?
Why do you want more?
Like Daddy done said,
You get what you get

Ain't nothing about you
So what are you gon' do?
Like Mamma found out,
You get what you get

Like Daddy done said
You get what you get

Like Mamma found out
You get what you get

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from The Joke Isn't Funny But It Goes Like This, released March 4, 2022

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Pierce Murphy Denver, Colorado

I'm a guitarist/vocalist from Denver, CO. I like jazz and I like to groove and I like to stick it to the man.

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