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contains references to "Child of Dust" by Thrice, and "Nobody Loves You Like Me" by Johnathan Coulton

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Well as far as I can see
The worst thing you can do
Is presume that when you’re gone
The world is gonna weep for you

I'm looking at a small scale
Of the planets we can see
It stretches out behind my back
And it crosses an ocean

And it reaches the continent
And it finally comes to rest
We find Pluto is just a tiny egg
Only worthy of a tiny nest

As far as I can see
The worst thing you can do
Is presume that when you’re gone
The world is gonna weep for you
‘Cos we’re animals at best
But I think we do forget that
When we’re gazing at our navels
It might look but it’s not that graceful

I'm looking at a weather map
There's a storm cloud coming in
It's covering the country
And there's nowhere left to run

And it will knock on every door
And it will ransack every cupboard
And everything that man has made
With dirt and sand it shall we covered

I’m sitting by a fire escape
In a hotel room I’m in
And I’m wondering ‘bout what Johnny said
And if he really meant those things

Because I'm planning out the songs
I’d like to play at my funeral
But they're not sing-alongs
They not anything to anyone

A child of dust to dust you now return (nobody loves you like me)
For every seed must die before it grows
And though above the world may toil and turn (nobody loves you like me)
No prying spade will find you here below

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from sleep​/​death, released July 15, 2022

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The Man In Washington Glasgow, UK

TMIW is a story-driven, alt/folk/rock project from Glasgow.

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