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This Is Not a Photograph Lyrics

This is not a photograph - no
(This is not a photograph)

And these are not the Elysian Fields
(This is not a photograph)

This is not a bigot's head - no
(This is not a photograph)
(This is not a photograph)

This is just a perpendicular line to the grain
(This is not a photograph)

This wants to be outside the cage of the age
(This is not a photograph)

This is not a bigot's leg
(This is not a photograph)
(This is not a photograph)
(This is not a photograph)
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Cover art for This Is Not a Photograph lyrics by Mission of Burma

could be saying that they don't want songs to be treated as simple snapshots of a band, putting them in a neat punk/post-punk category ("this wants to be outside the cage of an age")

Cover art for This Is Not a Photograph lyrics by Mission of Burma

so good

 
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