Second Rate

from Unbecoming by Missing Monica

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No one tells you what to do
Unless they know a thing or two
About what lies behind the image on the screen
All the deep frustration of your dreams

It doesn’t make much sense…
But you’re lost in the present, you can no longer see beyond the faces you’ve been.
Should you take what’s in front of you, leave it behind and concede to the grip of the second rate?

Searching for a narrative
To substitute for what you really did
When I caught you turning upside down and front to back
In opposition to the facts

It’s hard now to believe in what went before:
Hoping for a future while crawling on the floor.
The disappointment hides a sense of relief
No more hidden voices mocking your complicity

Retaining information made you feel oh so smart
[Dreams were unbecoming]
Then the constant repetition
[Dreams were unbecoming]
Of sustaining contradictions made you fall apart

It doesn’t make much sense…
Cos nothing you ever did made you believe you were right for the future
Now you’re lost in the present, you can no longer see beyond the faces you’ve been.
Should you take what’s in front of you, leave it behind and concede to the grip of the fourth not third not second rate?

It’s hard now to believe in what went before:
Hoping for a future while crawling on the floor.
The disappointment hides a sense of relief
No more hidden voices mocking your complicity

Dreams are unbecoming
Hope is unbecoming
You are unbecoming
Stop the unbecoming

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from Unbecoming, released September 29, 2023

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