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Gentrification V: Whitewashed

by Street Sects

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Deep in the pocket of the day I found a quiet place Free from my eight-bar loop of mistakes No confrontation can take it away I lost everything But here I am and I’m feeling good today I was shattering But here I am A knife in the fire There are no memories I would keep Save for these last few days No more resentments, fear or distrust The light hasn’t died But it has changed I lost everything But here I am and I’m feeling good today I was shattering But here I am A knife in the fire A jovial, heavy jawed, red face Some grey in his close-trimmed hair Like it or not he came to me Like it or not he is always around A grip of vicious compassion A kiss of unconditional acceptance No one can take him away He’s more than a passenger now He’s my paradise
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History is Everyone’s Fuck You disguised your intentions and it bought you time Forming tactics in your mind Questioned direction so you invested in mine Always watching from behind Always angles in your eyes Your lack of discretion is what made your bed Kissing up to move ahead I applaud your ambition but let it also be said I’ll applaud when you’re dead (It’s the ones we love that we hurt the most) Gifted… A talent for creation and rage Never content with what you’ve made A perpetuating feeling of shame Given the victims you’ve collected it’s plain That you are morally insane You are predatory, selfish and vain Gentle and patient Affectatious You come Threading a flower through the gun While your other hand erases the sun Gentrification Smallpox blankets You’ve won Witness the horror you’ve become Have you ever wondered what it’s like to love Someone other than yourself

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Bleeding edge Texas industrialists, Street Sects have completed their long running “Gentrification” single project with Gentrification V: Whitewashed. “Gentrification,” is a five part serial album that began eight years ago as a series of self-released seven inches. Now that your streets have been drained of all color and character, now that the last of the generational holdouts have been forced beneath the wheels, now that history has been torn up, rewritten, injected with fillers, plied with White Claw, passed around and shared by members of the board...are you sleeping more soundly?

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released May 20, 2022

Written & Recorded by Street Sects
Mixed and Mastered by Seth Manchester
Cover art by A.J. Garces Bohmer

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