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Since I moved to Toronto from a much smaller city, I was able to notice things about living here I'd probably never notice now.

Originally appeared on the PLOG compilation.

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At the grocery store
You pause in the door
Hold it open and wait
While the person behind you hesitates

With their overloaded arms
Deciding if you mean them harm
Then the wariness in their eyes
Fades as they decide

You’re just a being polite
Doing what you feel is right
They thank you and squeeze past
And walk away a little too fast
Too fast, they walk a little too fast

In the subway car
You see somebody charge
The doors as they close
An inch before their nose

Their eyes fill with rage
And it feels like an age
Before they realise
They’re staring into your eyes

As the stillness of the train
begins to lurch away
you realize you will never
know any person better
You’ll never know any person better

The songs on your iPod sound
like nothing's been more profound
You bury your nose in your book
And give nobody a second look

In the coffee shop
you’re pulling off the top
of your cardboard cup
to see if they filled it up

They left no room for cream
you burn your fingers on the steam
and you spill some on the floor
as you’re backing out the door

And your eyes catch a glimpse
of the barrista flinch
you can almost feel the throb
of how much they hate their job
Their job, you're glad it's not your job

Cleaning up after people like you
Well, ain't it what they're paid to do?
Still, you get out of their too fast
Too fast , you walk away a little too fast

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from From Tragic To Magic (the road to dreambeat), released March 2, 2018

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The Urbane Decay Toronto, Ontario

The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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