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Philton: Uniform Solution

PHILTON

Sep 01 2016

1 mins

Uniform Solution

 

Trees are green through window bars

Dimitri paces from wall to wall

I’d like to know who’s in my head

White uniforms demand servility

 

Dimitri paces from wall to wall

Larry saw the cuckoo’s nest

White uniforms demand servility

We swallow coloured straitjackets

 

Larry saw the cuckoo’s nest

We patients are bottles with labels

We swallow coloured straitjackets

At 6am nude line for showers

 

We patients are bottles with labels

The headphones are not for music

At 6am nude line for showers

Peter choked vomit from his secret pills

 

The headphones are not for music

I’d like to know who’s in my head

Peter choked vomit from his secret pills

Trees are green through window bars

 

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