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Artist: The Besnard Lakes
Canonical path: /the-besnard-lakes/devastation
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Devastation
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Devastation
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They won't play the song on the radio
The war is being played out
On our televisions
One stare, the drug of the nation
The cultural enriching now begins
Like a nation, like a nation
Your remaining people have no
Trenches left from which to fight
The rich; the nation hold their guns
Will rich buy back the mayhem?
While they're moving you're an owl
There's a devil flying overhead
What a fucking pile of shit
Devastation, devastation
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