Piety Daywear

from To And Fro by Alessandro Takeshi

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I called up the registry regarding the falling of an angel
They said “Sir, we’ve never had one by your name”
And I said “Wow, what a relief!”
And here I was thinking I had something to be
I set down the phone, put at ease

But I want things to be different
I want things to be different
I want things to be different
But things are still the same
And when my eyes close
Like a roll-up door on a storage unit
A mountain grows
Tearing rifts in the roads

I asked my friend to dinner
She never made it here
The traffic jam that she was stuck in went a thousand years
And this lease ends in a week
This is not the place to be
But the news says that it’s bumper-to-bumper the length of every street

So I walked to buy clothes at a store called Piety Daywear
Some graffiti said “Dress to Repress”
And I thought, “Well, ain’t someone smart?”
Oh what a transgression, what a work of art
Then I saw that was just their campaign

Attention: Your sizes are available in aisle three
And I realized they were talking just to me
I didn’t like that at all
I’ve got to get out of this building
I’ve got to get out of this building
I’ve got to get out of this building
Before it learns my name
I walked out of the store and stepped out on the street and heard this

A hundred cars packed on a single road
Within a thirty-second of an inch
33% of them are empty
and 66% of them are pissed
In one of them is my friend
I get into the passenger’s seat
And we talk about all the bullshit

God, it’s so good to see you
the way that we talk feels like a relic from a better world
But it still fits like a glove.
So we’ll save it with all of the rest of the seeds while we wait
So let the world interrupt

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from To And Fro, released April 29, 2019

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Alessandro Takeshi Tokyo, Japan

Alessandro Takeshi is an experimental singer-songwriter and music producer, as well as keyboard player and vocalist in the band The Stations, based in Tokyo. His avant-garde debut, To and Fro, and pop-oriented followup, Songs About Cars, cemented Takeshi as a versatile artist, deeply expressive whether penning pop tunes or turning them inside-out. He has performed across the US and Japan ... more

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