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Down in the Mire

from Misbegotten Candy by Pandora's Toybox

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In the name of efficiency
Darkness in the hearts of middlemen
To be alive is a deficiency
If you worked here, you would understand.

Paperwork and apathy
Just too many damn mouths to feed
Management and bureaucracy
Everybody’s got their complaints and needs…

Mr. Meyer has found the way
Necrotic despots earned his signature
A policy designed to earn the pay
It’s in our nature.

That unnatural cycle – the dead come to work
Monotonous lives without meaning
Destinies hijacked without benefits or perks
No more distracting futures or useless daydreaming…

Mr. Meyer keeps us working away
We ain’t never gonna see the light of day
The higher-ups say “the dead deserve no pay!”
We down in the Mire.

He just sits around in his office room
Collecting profit from the working man’s collective doom
A skeleton crew, never to be exhumed
We down in the Mire.

A Mortuary quite contrary
City maintenance holds the keys
The waste of the world we’re bound to bury
In paychecks and salaries…

And so he signed the documents
To prove his complicity
Shoveled out the excrement
Fodder for necromancy.

Spade’s edge driven through their heads
There’s no source of labor like the walking dead
No complaints, no appetites to be fed
No time off, and no words to be said.

Made so much headway in the sewers and streets
No, this ain’t no break; no, it’s never a break.
Mr. Meyer – he likes to keep it discrete
Down in the Mire – where the corpses stay awake.

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from Misbegotten Candy, released August 2, 2011
Written by Joshua Carrig

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