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Golden Shackles

from Rats In A Maze by Total Waste

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She paints in a world of color
Scarlet, leaf, red and blue
But her masters tell she must
Paint in duller hues

Daylight slowly dying
Like the light behind your eyes
Ambition bought and sold
As inner hopes are free to die

And the person you wanted to be
Is still whimpering in your heart
But her screams are getting fainter
Cuz she’s bound and chained by golden shackles

So she draws in mauve and taupe but
the masters hate it still
So she draws in black and white and
they open up the till

And the person you wanted to be
Is turning into dust
Ground into an ashen waste
Because she's chained and bound by golden shackles

Crash your ship into the rocks
Lured by sirens of green and gold
Dance beneath the money tree
It only costs your fucking soul

Forty years later and her will has been broken
Black and white and shades of gray
No joy, no family, no self worth
And the masters no longer pay

When she looks back at the youth that
Was wasted for just a dime
She wishes she could’ve done more but
Now she’s run out of time

Our own abandoned dreams
Are the deaths we never mourn
We just let them fade away
Passing clouds in a starless night sky

But I refuse to let this die
I refuse to let them go
I’m fighting with every last breath
Because I’m not fucking dead yet

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from Rats In A Maze, released September 9, 2022

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Total Waste New York, New York

Total Waste is a D-beat project in the style of Disfear, Wolfbrigade, Avskum, etc, with a hint of grind and death.

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