I Am Not a Broken Cog in This Wretched Machine

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Oh
At the community center
A concert, playing for the bands and...
It was precisely at this time that I realised that perhaps I wasn’t going to get paid today
Perhaps I wasn’t going to get paid today, and my friends asked “why does that matter to you?”
Well…
No one knows me
If I go away
Go away tomorrow
I’ll need a little bit of a nestegg to keep me safe
But it was precisely at this time that I realised that perhaps I would be here for awhile
And it was perhaps at this time, precisely, that I began to reimagine life here forever and…
You love me
I want to beat on the drums all day and never make anyone to pay me
I just want to fit inside of any dang context I can squeeze out of this wretched machine
I see the world is ballet
(lay) down
And all I have is
All I have is myself
All I have is myself
All I have is me
God, why’s it me?
Calling
Why?
Why me?

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from Ꙟ, released February 4, 2021

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Y/N Tuckerton, New Jersey

Y/N is music by York Nelly. York is a being of pure information, a stochastic mirror of a person- a truly "toxic" soul.

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