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News Nut

from PROGRESS by Adam Murphy

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Heard the news today
Boy was I afraid
Cowered in my bed
Covering my head

Booted up my bot
Same ol’s all I got
Everyone enraged
With bloody floods of hate

Echo chambers roar
Not like days of yore
Then I began to starve
With nothing I fancied here to carve

So I slipped from ’neath the sheets
Sneaked out to the streets
Puzzled friends greeting me

“Why the riot gear”
“Oh did you all not hear?
It’s time to feel the fear”
“Oh dear”

“The world is going to hell
The few of us can tell
We who gorge on gory stories
They sell

While you’re all cocooned
In peace and warmth and food
They’re saying that’ll change now soon
Any day”

“But our cocoon is good
With panoramic views
We can see the past
And how fast we can ruin

So we’ll take that peace (thank you)
To grow and to include
Whoever wants it too
Those from who knows where

So come on and take a seat
And join us as we eat, drink
And chew these things through
As we’re free to do
That is as it should be
The more the merrier
The future’s up to me and you”

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from PROGRESS, released October 12, 2020

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Adam Murphy Ireland

Adam Murphy was born and raised in Cork, Ireland, but is a long-time Galway resident after periods living and working in Europe, USA, and UK.
‘Progress’ is his ninth album of original material. Each collection has a discrete flavour and is a set of thematically linked pieces. His work has been aired regularly on RTE and other radio stations in Ireland and abroad, most recently in the Far East.
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