This one is the only protest song in The "Above-Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes. It reflects Jake Holmes’ roots in a place where artifice and false faces are used as covers for weakness. The places where a ‘genuine imitation life’ is the accepted lifestyle are occupied by people that tolerate the use of artifices as normal means of social intercourse, or as weapons. The images used in the opening part of the lyrics connote both. Part of the recoil from this lifestyle is due to its routinization of socializing, and part of it is against the self-absorption, inconsistency, and opportunism that grow in the places where said lifestyle flourishes. (The lyrics in this song seem to have been marijuana-influenced.)
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