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The Ballad of Bottle Dope

from (it never had to be like this) by Ripped from the Roots

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your small-town apathy and stupid hometown pride
they'll be the death of me, they're eatin me alive
I just wanna run away, but I'm not gonna drift
cos when the neighborhood burns down, we're all we got left

STICK THOSE PACKETS IN MY POCKETS
WALK ON OUT THE DOOR
AND LEAVE

then the bottles they fall down on driveways & lawns
we're suicide-bombing our own fuckin cause
now I'm hiding in a factory that used to pay me well
and I'm still manufacturing as if you couldn't tell

[JUST LET ME BUILD THESE DREAMS UP
TEAR ME DOWN
AND LEAVE] x2

sometimes I wanna go home but my home is burning down
from those trailer park fires & those crystalline clouds
I don't wanna grow old in what my home has become
it coulda been the beginning now it's already done

[it's already done] x3

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from (it never had to be like this), released December 16, 2016

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Ripped from the Roots Terre Haute, Indiana

Hoosier rust-folk titty babies with guitars
too happy to sing the blues but too sad to shut the fuck up

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