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Papa Tells Me

from Sugarcane by Poor Me

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When my papa heard that I’d enlist at twenty-three.

With rising panic in his chest, he called to me.



This world gives carrots to crooks, and my son won’t carry a club.

Keep your benevolence hushed.

I feel they’ll bait your love away when duty serves.



Keep your benevolence hushed.

Now listen close; you can’t just take on the world.

You don’t think at all.

I raised you right – the righteous leave the fight.

You’ll need to trust me. I’m begging you, please.



My papa’s one, his only son, now had to choose.

This family gave you all the tools you could use,

But you must sharpen your wit.

Their solve is short-term at best.

And this family settled at cost.

Your grand-pop serves here just beneath that bed of rock.



This world is crooked, papa.

Now, listen close. I’m off to take on the world.

Cause’ I’ve seen it all.

You raised me right – the righteous end the fight.

You’ll need to trust me….

And talking is cheap.



I’ve been around long enough.

Their talk is cheap. It’s my belief – I’ve been around long enough.

I’ve had enough.

I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen it all. Seen it all. It all.



So, I guess I’m sorry papa.

This world has got me scared to death.

You raised me right – I’m off to take on the world.

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from Sugarcane, track released August 14, 2018

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Poor Me Denver, Colorado

Formed in 2010, Denver, CO’s Poor Me has always been a passion project; an alchemical merging of charged aggression and killer songwriting. Catharsis comes and goes in a mass of sweating bodies, fists raised to the stage. This is skate punk dragged into the now—where fast drums, muscular riffs, and razor-wire lyrics unite to document a world more fucked than ever. ... more

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