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Everything you do has long been done before

  • 04 September 2006
Everything you do has long been done before But you and this obsession are joined at the hip You do it anyway and you still want more Factory-worker, seamstress, smackhead, whore A life moving along at a nice unpleasant clip Everything you do has long been done before Excess of desperation oozing from each pore Hungry gulping now that started as a sip You do it anyway and you still want more Pretending that you can't hear death's chaotic roar As you delicately insert that tip Everything you do has long been done before Surrounded by thieves and sisters in gore Waiting for the ambulance nothing but a blip You do it anyway and you still want more Laudanum, datura, weeds from afore Imagine you're de Quincey taking a sip Everything you do has long been done before You do it anyway and you still want more