Kupchino

from Cement by Simon C. Patterson feat. Kolya Bichan

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Kupchino

I spent the last year and a half
Behaving politely
Practising my corporate laugh
I learnt to suffer fools lightly

This suit - it cannot tie me down
Take it off, they won’t shoot me
You’re fired doesn’t mean go and die
And this tie doesn’t suit me

Now it is time to get out
Throw that suit in the furnace
Get on the next train down

To Kupchino
The buildings grow high
They tore out the trees
We can’t see the sky

In Kupchino
The rats fled this place
They chewed through the walls
Abandoned the race

They’ve found a new town
And planted a crop
It’s growing there growing there growing there

I cannot bring myself
To kneel to my betters
But am I strong enough
To gnaw through these fetters?

Cognac, cigars at the club
Or beer by the bus stop
I’m sick of life at the top
But it’s so hard to give up

Mud is a balm for the soul
But my shoes are so shiny
They might get dirty

In Kupchino
The concrete and mud
You need a good dose
Not to hate your own blood

In Kupchino
The cigarette air
It cleanses your lungs
And rinses your hair
As soon as I’m fired
I swear to you all
I’m going there going there going there

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from Cement, released December 12, 2017

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