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the bottom of the cliff

from wasted space by the smallest one

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ruminations on the nature of taking one's own life: are non-human animals capable of suicide? the media occasionally likes to tell us, 'yes, they are.' the first half of the song concerns the controversial disney documentary, 'white wilderness' - specifically the segment which popularized the notion that lemmings' nature consists of a mindless, compulsive mass-suicide rite (which later was found to be a contrivance of the team in charge of shooting the sequence, probably a bleat for attention). the second half of the song juxtaposes the alleged 'animal suicide' claim with a justified account of human suicide.

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pointed all their cameras
from the bottom of the cliff,
fingers crossed they’d get the perfect shot.
gathered up the masses,
& chased them to the edge,
& filtered history with what they caught.

& they watched all those helpless creatures dive –
for dollar signs, they claimed it suicide.
&, though the truth is often painted grey with lies,
its colours always re-emerge with time.

crowded all around
at the bottom of the building,
fingers crossed the man would change his mind.
the worry of the masses
turned into static noise –
though well-intentioned, it couldn’t carry him inside.

& they watched the body carving through the clouds,
& a frantic wave of panic washed across the crowd.
&, ‘cause his heart could never sputter out a sound,
he thought he’d be better off inside the ground.

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from wasted space, released March 1, 2017

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the smallest one Calgary, Alberta

my name is mason & i like to write songs about things.

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