Personal Safety

from Good Housekeeping by Landspeedrecord!

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PERSONAL SAFETY

How much is your personal safety worth?
It's not worth what you think it is.
Two club. dead bolt. Home security system.
And still your nerves begin to give.

Overhead of the public project housing the helicopter begins to whirr.
It's spotlight shakes in a cynical dance that
the crowd has seen a thousand times before.

The cancer is growing old.
The cancer is growing old.

Inside the car I have the hands of a surgeon.
Screwdriver ignition cruise control.
But the car stops dead and I'm left with no transport
and I've got nowhere to go.

Please release me - make me better than you.
Please rebuild me - make me smarter than you.

The police have switched to a glock with no safety
an all around better gun.
Life is a video game and a movie.
Please turn it off when you are done.

How much is your personal safety worth?
It's not worth what you think it is.

Please release me - make me better than you.
Please rebuild me - make me smarter than you.

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from Good Housekeeping, released January 1, 2002

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LandSpeedRecord! was founded in 1996, a combination of the Baltimore post-punk bands OCTOPUS, GLAZERIDE, and BUTTSTEAK. LandSpeedRecord! is the parental unit and mental health physician of front person/guitarist Charley Jamison, drummer Marc Berrong, bassist Thomas Stehr, guitarists/noise-ists Ron Spencer and Nathan Bell. ... more

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