Breathing Easy

By stealing the profits from my work and leaving me to reside in Vancouver's notorious downtown east side, I guess the business hoped that their crimes against me would end up LOOKING LIKE the right thing to do. This neighbourhood is designed to punish its residents either for breaking the law or for not having a job. Drug use is rampant there, and every resident is expected to have some kind of serious character flaw. After trying so hard to keep up a decent image all those years I lived in that overpriced apartment, it was a tremendous blow for me to be forced into a bug infested room in the downtown east side after I fell behind in my rent from so much unpaid recording and writing. This is how the business rewarded me for writing the songs and the laughs it took from me, the same business that put the jerks who stole them in limousines and made you all think that they were stars. So when I hear lies such as my recent 'eviction' from my room, I don't blame the creeps I was living with in that God forsaken building back in Vancouver; I blame the business. Maybe you think it's funny that the business that dictates your thoughts and actions is so utterly evil, but you'll come to the end of your life one day because you have no control over it. And when you draw your last breath, you may find that you have even less control over what happens next because you invested all your faith in lies from your TV. You'll hear me laughing then - when it counts the most. I thought that by returning to my province of birth, I might shake off the stigma of living in close quarters with social misfits. But my current living conditions often have me feeling like I never left Vancouver. I still don't LOOK LIKE the great artist who composed all that work. After six years of this insulting treatment I suspect that if I ever do LOOK LIKE that great artist, it will be while I am on a private flight to some far off, uncharted island, never to return.
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