A Mural Hidden

from Hide and/or Seek by Queen Cabbage

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lyrics

High-rise grime and licentious time in our bursting grey metropolis,
Like droppings, collect; tourists genuflect to the heights to which they’re striving
Excellent seats, eroding intrigue, effervescent concert-goers

Not plush enough; not strong enough; not curated to their liking

Sweep, sweep, sweep that pigeon dung
From the belfry where real bells once hung
Sweep, sweep sweep that dust away
To reveal the most marvelous shapes
A fresco hidden
A fresco lost

Brooklyn bars of reclaimed wood and not even a cushion for your stool
Like fleas, collect, and rustle Bushwick’s pelt—like lice, keep it ripe and moving
Buy your favorite meat from the artisanal fleet; get a nice big juicy mouthful

Not dead enough? Not safe enough? Not white enough for your liking?
Pity. Pity. Pity.

Sing, sing, sing Freewheelin’ songs
Figure anyone might stop for long?
Sing, sing, sing some top forty
Lordy, then they’ll throw some real cash at me
Mosaics hidden
Mosaics lost

More along those former lines
Than any lines of mine you’ll find,
Brake for show, not honesty,
What else would get me rent money?
A mural hidden
A mural lost

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from Hide and/or Seek, released June 7, 2019

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Queen Cabbage New York, New York

Originating in late 2017 at SUNY Purchase, Queen Cabbage is a folky art rock band dedicated to synthesizing silliness, seriousness, life, death, the beautiful, and the grotesque into earnest, powerful, emotionally immediate music for eager feet to dance and stumble to, for thoughtful hearts to beat and break to, and—most importantly—for authority figures to disapprove of. Queens ~~ Welcome! ... more

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