Now That's What I Call Worship

from Amygdala by The Invisible Teal (aka Todd Hoover)

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Religious trauma is very real and very sneaky.

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THE TEAL:
This litany of beautifully urban turns of phrase
will forever be tainted by manic pixie dream women like me.
Sure, playlists never argue … but remember that you, too,
stay connected to something that once assumed far too much about U2.
I’m about as Christian as "Achtung Baby" or "Tender Prey."
I wear my privilege like a paper badge of my proudly own design.
Stop it, I’m fine! It’s my vision and I’ll hurt if I want to!
Nowadays, I feel exactly like Ares:
clandestinely expectant of the moment
when the stronger gods all glimpse and flinch at Dr. Poison’s scars.
I’m about as Christian as Marvin or Kanye or Cash.
Comparative religion’s not an imperative decision —
it’s just a narrative envisioned by our parents in the ditch when
every painting’s version of a White and female virgin
is accompanied by angels who are similarly pale.
And we wonder why adulthood’s still elusive to the hood rats
who were forced to bear the kind of cross one only gets for sale.

TODD:
Hey, Dev, let’s call a spade a spade: What am I now but one more silhouetted resident? The only chops I’m still rocking are for touchscreen navigation. I mean, sure, we performers are bottomless pits, for whose benefit? We’re shooting nothing but shit ‘til our asses expire. I don’t know about you, but at this point, I’d rather be honest than responsible.

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from Amygdala, released June 5, 2023

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