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The dangers of living a gilded life.

Check out this article about America's first gilded age.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

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I'm not a mean man, but I can sure be mean.
A consequence in my defense of all the things I've seen.
I love the streets man, but I am no gangster.
I have yet to find a question that violence can answer.
I am adaptive, I am no victim.
Opening your mind consistently will lead to freedom.
I am your dawg. And I will bite you.
The lies you tell act like a veil that I can see through.

I don't always like who I am.
I don't always have an answer.
I will try to refuse a helping hand.
My pride is my cancer. My cancer.

I am a lover. I'm so full of hate.
I long to destroy the status quo so I can recreate.
My mind is water, yet my heart is on fire.
Anything that gets to close I burn with my desire.
I'm not confused, I just don't know what to do.
I want to wreck my past, tare out the roots that I once grew.
I am for peace. Yet I fight myself.
If I did not stand in my defense I would live through my hell.

I don't always like who I am.
I don't always have an answer.
I will try to refuse a helping hand.
My pride is my cancer. My cancer.

I need to let go.
I am not perfect.
I need control.
Or I will live with regret.

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from Songs from Society's Underbelly, released May 15, 2012

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Andy Joseph Minneapolis, Minnesota

Just a Madison boy, born and raised. I play the guitar to pass my days. And when the time comes to entertain, I'll leave no inactive cell in your brain. When the word goes through about the work I do, I hope you'll open up and sing along too.

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