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Captain of the Lost Waves - Uniforms

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I try so hard to be different
To a new bright allegiance I'm sworn
It seems in our need to be different
We all wear the same uniforms

This one says I fit in
This one is saying I don't
This one says you know that I will
And this one's demanding I won't

This one says that I'm mighty
This one says I don't care
When you carefully playing at 'shall I comply?'
With that anarchic rebellious stare

We try so hard to stand out
Whilst maintaining the need to fit in
It's a game. It's a game. Don't you know it's a game?
A game that nobody wins.

Some uniforms are better than others
Annalise in your paprika dress
A sartorial elegance and a Dickensian gentility
With such a fiery prowess.

This one says I'm a player
Clever and oh so precise
And should I digress, maybe confess
That clothing be my greatest vice?

Put 'em on, put 'em on, put 'em on
What is it you're trying to say?
Manicured and polite, so politically right
From neutral colours I stray,
Hey, hey, hey

Just another still from a movie
Just another page from a book
What worked for you then
Don't work for me now
You're ashamed
And you say you won't look

Put 'em on, put 'em on, put 'em on
What is it you're trying to say?
Manicured and polite
So politically right
From neutral colours I stray,
Hey, hey, hey

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from Raising Steam V, released November 6, 2020
Released 2019.
(c) COTLW

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