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Father, what I'm spitting up, it's so dark
Aunt there is a quest on which I must embark
Learned doctors of the church pity you
Just expressing love when they spit on you
Gets exhausting being so dutiful
Life it is so meaningless and beautiful
I love loneliness and the friendly dark
Gotten lost looking at such tiny sparks
Learned doctors of the church pity you
Just expressing love when they spit on you
Gets exhausting being so dutiful
Life it is so meaningless and beautiful
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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Let Id Out
04:33
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LET ID OUT
There are deep dark corridors in your mind
You get a glimpse of one from time to time
Do not wander down there
Avoid what's to be found there
Some descents can never be re-climbed
Good's not what you are it is what you do
That's why I am gonna murder you
Then I'll order some lunch
I'm a painting by Munch
There are some thoughts that cannot be subdued
Let id out!
End the drought!
Do what you want to do
Let id out!
Let id spout!
Nothing should be taboo
Must everything be boring and sad?
Some things you say seem sobering egad
I am napping much more
I'll be aching and sore
But I'll rend the garments in which you're clad
Let id out!
End the drought!
Do what you want to do
Let id out!
Let id spout!
Nothing should be taboo
The emptiness of our endeavors
Is what makes them so sweet
What are the odds we’d ever
Exist let alone meet?
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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3. |
Want To Want To
03:24
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These inner rains
Pour from the heart
Don't know when they'll stop
Or why they start
It just pours and pours
Your boat gets cast about
Now you know you can drown
From the inside out
You take my hand
Invite me out with you
Don't think I can
But I want to want to
Please understand
This storm I'm living through
I can't make plans
But I want to want to
You need something
I just don't have
I'm trying so hard
To correct that
Where can one find
What one can't see
When did you lose
All your trust in me?
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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In a large stack
Of old 8 tracks
A physicist found
Something profound
One-upped Newton
Shopping at Rasputin's
Couldn't believe his eyes
When he found the prize
Otis Redding's disco album!
There's an earth where Big O didn't die
And nobody wrote American Pie
Has that earth had its own tragedies?
Is Otis Redding's disco album one of these?
It's got undeniable grooves
But his voice sounds way too smooth
The album's not that bad
It kind of makes me glad
Quantum theory
Makes me weary
But now we've shown
We're not alone
Many worlds exist
This fact's a gift
On some other plane
We're in less pain
Otis Redding's disco album!
There's an earth where Big O didn't die
And nobody wrote American Pie
Has that earth had its own tragedies?
Is Otis Redding's disco album one of these?
Everything happens somewhere
He lived thru disco over there
They're working on the math
To help us find the path
There's an earth where Big O didn't die
And nobody wrote American Pie
Has that earth's had its own tragedies?
Is Otis Redding's disco album one of these?
Everything happens somewhere
He lived thru disco over there
They're searching for some force
To take us to its source
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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5. |
Rotten
02:50
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One day I think I was 10
Playing with my GI Joes again
Suddenly felt lame
I guess I grew up that day
Depressed Starting to decay
Weird waves of shame
Have you screwed up so much
You can't unscrew it?
Do you have principles
Or do you just do shit?
When your thoughts run away
Then you must stop them
There are so many ways
To be rotten
Funny Just how much I've spent
Money It has always meant
Too much to me
Crowing How should one behave?
Knowing Others are enslaved
You see through me
When kindness feels too hard
You must force it
We're forever shovelling
Ever more shit
When your thoughts run away
Then you must stop them
We just wilt away
Become rotten
What's the right response
When others are worse off than you
How can you be happy
with how little you do?
Who can make their peace
With so much goddamn misery
Who are you looking at?
Are you talking to me?
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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Sob (Forever)
04:55
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SOB (FOREVER)
Thoughts becoming minnows
I can see but I can't hold
Why do we get dumber
As we get more self-controlled
It's so hard not to say
Everything you think out loud
Ground is getting closer
As my back is getting bowed
I just want to smile back at you
I just want to pet my dog
I know she will die before me
I know I will surely sob (forever)
Last night I lay awake
So alert to every noise
Mind started to wander
That's a trick that it employs
I just want to watch this sunset
I wish that could be my job
I wish I didn't have to leave you
I'm glad we don't have to sob (forever)
Long ago Crusaders
Carved these crosses in the wall
One for each dead heathen
Their holy swords caused to fall
I just want to love my neighbor
Neighbors make that hard for me
But if I don't strive for virtue
I'll become an s.o.b. (forever)
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Muppet Legs
03:01
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I'm the only subject I can discuss with any authority
And you are just like me we both want to be the priority
Not everyone's just like you that's why you're not the majority
But don't complain you'll still get into the sorority
Monsters taught me how to read
While I was just watching TV
My parents would often shout
Spelling all the letters out
They rarely show you Muppet legs
My mother once made me green eggs
Muppet legs are rarely missed
We still believe that they exist
You mistake my confidence for a sense of superiority
I just like the sound of unused words and their sonority
Inside those sounds sometimes I've found such enormity
But you act as if talk like that is some deformity
Monsters taught me how to read
While I was just watching TV
My parents would often shout
Spelling all the letters out
They rarely show you Muppet legs
My mother once made me green eggs
Muppet legs are mainly fists
We still believe that they exist
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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LITHUANIAN AMBULANCE RIDE
The paramedic didn't speak any English
But she made it perfectly clear
I had to get to the hospital
My condition was severe
All I had on was the hotel bathrobe
I felt so vulnerable
She pulled out a hypodermic needle
It got more uncomfortable
I asked what she just gave me
She said some syllables
Which just made me more helpless
I felt so despicable
You don't want to take
A Lithuanian ambulance ride
Don't make my mistake
The night I almost died
The shot didn't make things better
But her clothes they seemed to glow
Wheeled me through the hotel lobby
With the concierge in tow
You don't want to take
A Lithuanian ambulance ride
Don't make my mistake
The night I almost died
The siren remained silent
While I whimpered like a child
I wished we would drive faster
Why wouldn't the driver smile?
Was I in real trouble?
Had I become infectious?
Zigging through the traffic on
Gedimino Prospektas
You don't want to take
A Lithuanian ambulance ride
Don't make my mistake
The night I almost died
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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9. |
Well Equipped
03:39
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Life is one long stretch
of assessing threats
And opportunities
Give good as you get
Don't get too upset
At all the lunacy
We're all the star of our own movie
Supporting actors won't stick to the script
I truly think it would behove thee
To make note of how well I'm equipped
Some people suggest
All should be addressed
As though they're equal men
So I should confess
That noblige is obsessed
And you're not one of them
Is all this just a simulation
Are we the everlasting aftermath
Off the record not for quotation
I'm like all of you a sociopath
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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Begin Again
03:09
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Sing a song about sex
Then kiss the person you are next
We are reaping row by row
Widows teaching men to sew
So we can begin again
Hug the children that you meet
Agree with them that things are neat
Admire the blankness of their slates (how great their state)
Abandon them all to their fates
So we can begin again
Roll that boulder up the hill
When it rolls down maintain your chill
Everything's a metaphor (ignore what for)
What's been stolen gets restored
So we can begin again
Though it's reasonable to ask
What's the purpose of this task
The only answer is a silence
Which will not yield to all your science
Every brief moment of bliss
Is your revolt at that abyss
Know the torment never ends
There's nothing more to comprehend
You must rebel constantly (decree you're free)
There's no final victory
So we just begin again
© & ℗ 2023 People Still Suck Music
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When my niece was six years old
She moved to New Jersey
She'd grown up on the west coast
This was the wrong direction
She was not adjusting well
To those humid summer nights
She fell in love just as soon as
She saw her first fireflies
Thunderstorms and fireflies
Make no sense to west coast eyes
Wish I could still be surprised
By thunderstorms and fireflies
My wife made a move like that
Some forty years ago
The thing that freaked her out the most
Was not the cold or snow
It was the sound of thunder
Which she'd never heard before
She didn't find it comforting
We don't live there anymore
Thunderstorms and fireflies
Make no sense to west coast eyes
Wish I could still be surprised
By thunderstorms and fireflies
Me, I love an August storm
And watching lightning strikes
I find comfort in the noise
When I am safe inside
Steam heaters make me feel the same
Clanking through a winter night
But they drove my wife insane
They brought her no delight
Thunderstorms and fireflies
Remembering her gasps and sighs
Signs of life sounds of demise
Thunderstorms and fireflies
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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12. |
Letting Spiders Live
02:59
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Lately I've been letting spiders live
Each day I find a few more shits to give
Everything's connected
You're just not at the center
We all contribute to the telethon
But there's just one drunk presenter
Lately I've been nicer than my norm
We all just need to make it through the storm
When you get dejected
You must try not to forget
A friend is just a stranger
Who's got stranger since you met
So when you see a spider
Let it live!
Go sit down beside her
You're relatives!
Yesterday I did not say a word
Though no one behaved the way I preferred
I could have objected
But I chose to let it slide
You never know what's going on
In all those other people's lives
So when you see a spider
Let it live!
Go sit right down beside her
You're relatives!
© & ℗ 2024 People Still Suck Music
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