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Gm vamp
Verse 1
Gm
Pigs pretending to be dogs
Selling you their dog pills, a fortune made from sheep
Bb
Telling them what they want to hear
And making sure that they all stay asleep
Gm
A black hole for energy
Increasing mass but you’ll sow what you reap
Bb
Laying all the groundwork for your magnum opus
But it’s really not that deep
C Eb
Chorus
Gm Bb C
Don’t need a degree to see your grift is bad for you and me so
I gotta push back while I can
So I’m writing up a postcard to my local rep it should get there by the
Time I keel over exhausted; I’m writing up a postcard
Gm vamp
Verse 2 (same changes)
Chessboard hype man, boxing ring phony
Bathrobe sporting Caufield crony
Discount Morpheus free your mind
Been in a prison of your own for a long long time
It’s all catching up with you
A million copycats waiting to see what you do
The rest of us clean up after you
A legacy of half truths we all see right through
Chorus
Instrumental out 2x
D5/G Eb5/G D5/G Eb5/G
Gm Bb C9add4
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howling
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I’m not supposed to be falling apart this soon
I’m not even 40 and I still have things to do
My body won’t listen, every joint is coming loose
My dad had drugs to blame but I’m not sure I have an excuse
I’m not supposed to be falling apart this soon
A few more changes and I’ll start howling at the moon]
The weekly list of things that are lost unexpectedly
Learning to deal with my crumbling biology
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Stella is a cat, we think
But you’d never be able to tell with your ears
Because instead of meowing she tweets
And chirps like a bird
Toppy sat on the toilet and used it
nobody told him to do that
but there it is
CHORUS
CAT SOLO over verse
Zerena would always end a game of scabble
By sitting on the board at the end
The letter Z is worth a lot of points
So every time she would always win
Tilly avoided laps for an entire year
Then decided suddenly to return
To the job of being a beautiful lap warmer
Jasper likes to prey upon the rubber discs
That fly off my octopus costume in a raging fit
And bring them to me with that special meow
That mea ns he’s brought a gift
Felines and humans coexist
On a spectrum of ridiculousness
Each thinks the other quite the fool
But they look beyond to give a love that’s true
CHORUS87
Human solo
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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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I wrote "Echoloquacious" for A/B Duo to follow-up the LSDJ/flute piece I wrote for Meerenai, and I couldn't have imagined a better pairing than Ivan Trevino's "Things We Dream About.
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