Big Box Store (FAWM 2026-14)
Words and music by Joe Ficklin

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The dozers came on in and they tore the buildings down
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Hauled away the rubble and debris
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The parking lot they paved is now larger than the town
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It's hideous but, hey, at least it's free!
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Construction crews came to the site, working day and night
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Laying down foundations, walls, and floors
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Six months heavy industry with no clear end in sight
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Enough was done so they could open up the doors

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	It's a big box store filled with everything you'd need
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	Buy it by the box or by the case
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	It crosses several time zones and it's stocked from wall-to-wall
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	And it's big enough to see from up in space

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Father took us shopping so we loaded up the car
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Found a spot then took the shuttle to the door
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Mother said "let's stick together, don't go very far"
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Of course you'd know we'd scatter once we hit the floor
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Cousin Albert went for anime and Hello Kitty T-shirts
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Aunt Matilda needed shotgun shells for cooking
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Brother Bobby found a doorway leading to a strange dimension
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Stepping through it when nobody else was looking

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Brother David needed soccer balls, basketballs, and weights
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Uncle Danny wandered off for mustache paste
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Someone bought a steamship that came in an hundred crates
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Try the alligator pie, here, have a taste
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I thought to reach the very end upon the mass conveyor
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An hour later still not at the end
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Finally reached a broken room manned by a surveyor
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And he told me they were thinking about putting in a bend

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Giving up the fruitless quest of finding termination
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I found a path and made my way to where we all had entered
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It took a week of grit and luck and sheer determination
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I found the food court with the tent where everyone was centered
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Except for Brother Bobby, replaced now by a clone
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Until the real Bob could be found by their survival team
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Use the buddy system and don't venture off alone
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Shopping at the Big Box is like entering a dream

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