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Trash Island

from The Skin Of My Teeth by Happy Tooth

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There are things no one ever talks about.
The world stinks, there's no way to wash it now.
It's tragic how we all play a part.
It's madness this is how we made a mark.

It's not like any island that sits up in the sky.
It's empty and silent and lives under the tide.
It's something that kind of makes me wanna die.
I wish I was bluffing but it's no son of mine.
I know of a place that nobody wants to go.
It used to be waves and now it's killing us you know.
It's this island made of plastic and glass.
It's a big giant space that they say stashes our trash.

It's strange, how we don't seem to care.
In flames, now we don't breathe the air.
Exchange, all of your stuff for clean.
Refrain from dumping your junk in streams.

So let's leave I really need to see that climate.
We can live forever on the dead of Trash Island.
I'd better just treasure all the past inside it.
Whatever the weather it's only trash we'll die with.
There isn't a government that even wants to claim this.
We caused it by dumping, feeding stuff through drainage.
Now they're saying there won't ever be a cure.
All this time wasted now the oceans just a sewer.

Now that you all know the truth.
Sit down, or take all your hope and move.
To a place that's not as bad as this.
It's a shame, where are all the activists at?

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from The Skin Of My Teeth, released May 12, 2015

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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