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Passing Strangers (ft. Mr Gee)

from Salvation (EP) by Fold

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lyrics

You say I look familiar, no I doubt that you've ever noticed me
As I sweep the city streets early in the morning when you're usually asleep
And in the evening when you're yawning and maybe forgotten to brush your teeth
I'm constantly polishing to keep the toilet seats in your office squeaky clean
So obviously my face is unfamiliar to you for we live in worlds apart
You won't see me begging on the corner or offering to wash the windows on your car

I have no drugs to sell you, I provide no call girls to thrill you
And I'm quite sure that I've never threatened to mug, rob or kill you
So is it any wonder that our paths have never crossed?
You seem lost; questioning whether or not I actually exist
I inhabit the lowest positions where my face is only just allowed to fit
I know I don't speak the language too good
I know that my culture and my customs are sometimes misunderstood
And yes, I'm easily overlooked because I've never committed a crime
for your tabloid articles - those paranoid charters full of stories
detailing how I'm ripping out your heart and have no function in your society
for the life of me its remarkable

Do you think the toilets actually clean themselves?
Or that the warehouses cast a fantasy spell to magically stack their shelves?
My labour is exploited daily for next to nothing
From fitted eletrical systems to problems with kitchen and bathroom plumbing
Yet my only dream is to see my children free from such struggling
So I'll take all the hatred this world has to give
The experience is humbling

I work in the restaurants that feed you, the hospitals that heal you
Cut me and I bleed too my feelings aren't see-through
Yet you pass me every day with nothing left to say
then go home and speculate about how I don't assimilate?
I understand your frustration with the changing face of this nation
I come from the place where cheap labour came from
Different continents its the same song
But I work to provide my keep, and my keep provides my heat
and the rent and the food for my family to eat

But tell me, what do you see? A criminal, a wastrel, an immigrant ungrateful?
No I'm none of the above labels except maybe a convenient scapegoat
So forget that you ever saw me, just ignore me
And we'll both carry on walking undaunted - passing as strangers.

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from Salvation (EP), released October 28, 2013

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