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1. Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 02:08:26 JST Machismo
   One cold December morning
   Awhile before all the world is stirring
   A little boy named Miles is wide awake
   He eyes the shelf above his toys
   And reaches up to take hold of something
   Decides to give the snowglobe a shake
   
   Streetlights
   Dressed in icicles and tinsels line the boulevard
   All pre-packaged and wrapped in a ribbon
   Like their own lives
   Just some picture-perfect vision from a greeting card
   That they manifest every December
   When the snow falls
   Within the globe walls
   Ice cascading
   Activating this magical world inside
   ‘Til he drops it and shatters the snowglobe
   
   Freedom
   So they wander one by one into the real world
   Tiny figures all marching in unison
   ‘Tis the season
   Wide-eyed wonder at the stories that they’d always heard
   But soon their expectations are ruined
   It’s jurassic
   So much traffic
   All these people, so impatient
   And slowly they realize
   This is not like it was in the snowglobe
   
   Welcome to our Black Friday
   Fight for your rightful place in line
   Right after me, myself, and mine
   The joys of Christmastime
   Lipservice at the manger
   While bearing gifts to the altar of avarice
   Joy to the jaded artifice
   So this is Christmas?
   
   Chaos
   As they try to acclimate into our Christmas ways
   So commercial, the rat race, marauding
   Yuletide shellshock
   All the parties and the checklists and the joyless days
   There’s a reason it’s all so exhausting
   Where’s the meaning?
   Where’s the wonder?
   Where’s the dreaming?
   All this busyness bleeding the season dry
   Soon they want to get back to the snowglobe
   
   Welcome to our Black Friday
   Fight for your rightful place in line
   Right after me, myself, and mine
   The joys of Christmastime
   Lipservice at the manger
   While bearing gifts to the altar of avarice
   Joy to the jaded artifice
   So this is Christmas?
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 12:24:36 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman This original or a song or something?
     Machismo likes this.
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 12:25:04 JST Machismo

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     • anonymous
     @anonymous https://ulteriumrecords.bandcamp.com/track/snowglobe-free-download