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“Some people just love what they do I guess,” the Sloth thinks, “or are just better at justifying themselves than all the rest.”

He goes to the ATM to withdraw some cash, but the balance reads zero. Out of luck Sloth, Looks like you’ll have to find yourself a job.

“It’ll wait til the morning” says Owen, his friend. He lends Sloth a fiver and leads him to the party they plan to attend. The host, Jamie, knows as much as most the struggle of finding a suitable yet useful profession. He gives the Sloth his tragic confession…

Jamie was 20, a student at uni
Studying history of art
Quite undecided but still he derided
What his subject had to impart
Most of his friends they were young & bohemian
Post-modern, Ray Bans and synths
His band they played hardcore
but it made his throat sore
And loud noises caused him to wince

One night at a party he went on the bevy
And as he was drinking then he started thinking
He said…

“I wanna make something with these hands
Be a welder, be a real man
I wanna have money and a mortgage too
Because doing what I do is useless, it’s true.”

Jamie was 20, a welder soon to be
Apprenticeship well under way
Exited to feel like his manhood was real
And that soon he’d be getting some pay

He went to the firm but he started to squirm
When he heard what the foreman would say every day

I’m an artist working in metallurgy
I’m really in to Wassily Kandinsky
Now you’re gonna make masterpieces too
Because doing what we do is useful, it’s true.”

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from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1), released August 8, 2014

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Sloth Metropolis Glasgow, UK

SLOTH METROPOLIS is a musical mythology & ongoing sloth-themed rock opera told in prog, psych, folk and paper mache.

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