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Traffic’s backed up seven miles
Outbound flights are all delayed
Scavenge food from grocery aisles
Only skylines give us shade

Radiation from our cell phones
lesions growing in our lungs
prizes we were promised
once we made it to this rung

I’ve got booze to shred my liver
I’ve got pills to fix my brain
Trash is boiling in the river
And there’s acid in the rain
We deserve whatever’s coming
It’s foundation that we’ve laid
We won’t survive this world we’ve made

Shrinking forest set ablaze
filthy ocean fraught with oil
hope there’s sunshine through the haze
shuffle off this mortal coil

Melting icecaps in the Arctic
rising shorelines all around
We medicated masses
have grown too deaf to the sound

I’ve got booze to shred my liver
I’ve got pills to fix my brain
Trash is boiling in the river
And there’s acid in the rain
We deserve whatever’s coming
It’s foundation that we’ve laid
We won’t survive this world we’ve made

It doesn’t have to be like this
we’ve gotta break pace with the herd
realize we don’t write the rules
we are not nature’s last word

I’ve got booze to shred my liver
I’ve got pills to fix my brain
Trash is boiling in the river
And there’s acid in the rain
We deserve whatever’s coming
It’s foundation that we’ve laid
We won’t survive this world we’ve made

credits

from Toxic Thought Machine, released March 26, 2016
Dave Toennies - guitar, vox
Cody Howard - banjo, vox
Ryan Haggarty - double bass, harmonica, vox
Walter Senko - organ, drums, vox

Lyrics by Dave Toennies

Recorded and mixed by Luc Michaud at Highland Studios in Windsor, ON
Mastered by Marty Bak at SLR Studios in Windsor, ON

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Border Patrol Detroit, Michigan

Border Patrol is a lyrically driven folk-rock group from Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. Blending elements of traditional bluegrass and folk with punk and indie expression, they feature vocal harmonies and surprisingly upbeat melodies about our impending doom and the monotonies of every day life and love in this modern age. ... more

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