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The Five Stages of Petroleum Processing

from The Days of Awe LP by Nadalands

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I only care to spend the evening at the Suncor grieving in my folding chair
Watching the blood of Alberta flow through metal veins and boil into the air
I can feel her right beside me, whistling like she isn't even gone
Big rigs moaning up above us, glowing towers staring down the dawn

Her benzene eyes
She said the poison makes it more fun
I don't know why
This metropolis eats its young

I-270 nights
Oh, the beauty
My refinery lights
Oh, the beauty

Her parents never liked us hanging out in Commerce City watching how
We turn past life into fuel for the future then burn the future for right now
So I'm not welcome at some ceremony where their phony pastor lights a flame
It's cool, I guess, I understand their anger, we all want someone to blame

I saw the autopsy
Some sort of fungus of the lung
Such a tragedy
This metropolis eats its young

I-270 nights
Oh, the beauty
My refinery lights
Oh, the beauty

This obituary, sickening toxic vapors,
Her duffle bag of canisters and papers,
A brief article on tar sands from the Wall Street Journal
Grief is fleeting but all that carbon is eternal

We burn the dead
The worst criminals never get hung
Copper, steel, and lead
This metropolis eats its young

I-270 nights
Oh, the beauty
My refinery lights
Oh, the beauty

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from The Days of Awe LP, released September 24, 2023

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Nadalands Fort Collins, Colorado

Nadalands is the solo songwriting project of John Lindenbaum (The Lonelyhearts, The Distances, Rust Belt Music).

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