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The Normal Tears
05:46
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Vernal Pool (improvised)
02:58
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Your Full Potential
02:37
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Your full potential is doing absolutely nothing
What if we made it worse by taking action?
Have you seen their hands? These men are not healthy
The most boring people ever in the most ivory of towers
We’ve seen the future and it’s not great
Whether a cube or an orb, the future of the human race
Press 1 for questioning
Press 2 for unreasonable use of force
Press 3 for property theft
Press 5 for riding on a horse
Press 6 to leave incriminating messages
Press 7 to check the current status
All emergency services suspended
All crime still fully illegal
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Fast Culture
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It took hundreds of years for the music of bach
To get entrenched in the schools, become the standard stock
But he was makin’ it up as he went along
Never settling for the same old song
It only took jazz about a century
From African slaves yearning to be free
To a book of standards to be memorized
But for the freedom part we still have to strive
Meanwhile rock & roll happened twice as fast
You pay 1200 bucks to take a punk rock class
And hip hop too, got wrapped up quick
Even EDM has the same old schtick
The internet makes information free
But it also inundates you and me
It helps elitism thrive, makes a right and wrong way
It’s a ridiculous game that we all have to play
How do we go back to the word of mouth
To community respect instead of web 3 clout
But keep some of the good, sharing tips and tricks
So everybody shares all the benefits
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I took it to the store downtown
He filed the fret edges down
And now it’s much nicer to play
The tuner batteries were old
Some new ones to me he sold
So now I can use it for my day…Ly songs
Thanks to a spa day…
I got this one from my pops
He gave it to me when he stopped
By to see us before we moved to this place
It rode here in the back of the truck
And survived with a lot of luck
Cuz it didn’t even have a case
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piano idea demo
00:43
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This message won’t repeat
Please listen close to my words
Cycles break
Timelessness is a myth
things that don’t come back
Winter snow, howling whales, mist in the bay
When the power finally goes
And the carp take over lake ontario
That’s when you’ll know
This message won’t repeat
Because it can’t
It’s too weak
Drowning out in the lake, in the past
In the air, with the world
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Matthew Joseph Payne Oakland, California
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer with a flair for the dramatic. Bluegrass, chiptunes, ondes martenot and more swirl through unexpected soundscapes with hidden meanings. Also memes.
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