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Artist: Minutemen
Canonical path: /minutemen/plight
Related lyric paths: 6
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Plight
Read Plight lyrics by Minutemen on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Plight
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His face is young
His hands are old
The past is empty
Blind and cold
All the sweat
On his back
Grabs the dirt
It stains his shirt
Push all day
He rests at night
Do some hobbies
Drink to forget
[Spoken during verses]
A ton of sand at my feet
Each a speck in a space
All collecting in a mass
Pressure changing its shape, its direction, its purpose
As the sea tears it away from the land
More is pushed back
Each different
Each separate
All has changed and nothing has changed
When the momentum stops, the machine will die
For some reason we're not alone
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Minutemen performs "Plight", and this lyric page sits inside the Minutemen catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to 99 and Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love with a short reason for opening each page next.
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