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I don't wax wise I just talk shit
But it's a pretty good fit
I'm addicted to trying to quit
As a kid I smoked cigs to be cool
and it worked alright
I was the biggest badass in my preschool
not anymore
now I'm just another boring explorer
addicted to being a foreigner
Like my father before me I carry our name
a very large frame and exactly zero game
but that's okay, no big loss
You know a lot of cats pounce and don't got claws
a lot of cooks cook but can't make sauce
and I can simmer for hours
The sweet and the sour
The butter and flour
The Tao is not a superpower
but it's got me everything that I could ever want so far

Hard to say
but I think things are going to change

Tragedy doesn't really seem all that sad to me
Suffering is something at least
bad as it may be
The show goes one
and even with the hydrogen bomb
we play along like it ain't all wrong
I need a new theme song
This is not a comedy
Raiding the costume shop before prom
Used to love the drama
Standing in the street screaming
lovesick obscenities
at long-legged young ladies
always waiting for the world to disintegrate
So who's got time to hate?
I learned to give head one fateful night
in the very same church parking lot
where I first learned to ride a bike

Might be time
to wander to the other side

Licorice and salvia, well
do you notice how my favorites are always on sale
what does that tell you?
Pale moon hangs low and swells over smoke tails
trailing off the fires of rubbish piles
In the style of the Danish Lord
I sort out my sordid story out loud
in a country where they've never heard a minor chord
What you whining for?
I think I'm starting to believe the Buddha was just bored
and why is it the ones who have the most
who always want more?
Come toast to the opposite shore
May it always be around
to give us something to shoot for

All we'll ever be
is wrinkles in the sheet

Too young to be anything close to somebody
Undone like the knot in my tongue
after a little rum
You're going to hate to hear me say it, son
but fun is overrated
It's as played as looking out for number one
Is it crude to speak truth to beauty
Cause truly you are one beautiful bag of blood
and bones and such
or is that too much?
I know I swore I'd never be rich
and yet I'm not yet rich enough
a pinch of snuff
a puff piece on page one
and the campaign was done
Chapter One: God made mud
and some of it got to sit up
and I am just a little bit of that lucky mud

We're finding finally without a lot of energy
a side of the decider that you scientists will never see
It's not about reality cause that's just as illusory
as beauty in a magazine or money won through usury
The losers will unite against you giants of philosophy
and I will be eternally condemned for my verbosity
It's hard to see the end but then
what makes you think that there's an end to see?

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from Moe's Tavern 2​/​8​/​15, released February 10, 2015

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Denis Hart-lead vocals, bass
Nick Richards- drums
Colin Butcher-guitar

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