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<title>Theotherguy89's music...</title>
<description>I'm a burgeoning musician from North Texas. I love music, and play guitar, piano, drums, and bass, and record my own music in my tiny home studio. I enjoy playing in bands, and I have been in several garage bands in the past, the most current being Jet Set Pilots, in which I am the lead guitarist.</description>
<link>http://Theotherguy89.bandamp.com/</link>
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<title>A Butterfly Wing</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5626.html</link>
<description>Its been a long time since I've written any music. College applications and school have been getting in the way.

I wrote this for the Texas Reflections Program contest yesterday with the prompt &quot;I can make a difference by...&quot;

I took the topic in a novel way and made this simple song.

Lyrics:
Don’t you know a
Butterfly wing
Can start a hurricane
If you just let it swing ?
Don’t  think
Things won’t come back to you
‘cause they always do
‘cause they always do

A poor man once asked me for a dime
But I didn’t give him the time
Because that money was mine
But that day he found himself in court
And he was one dime short
From making the one call
That could save him

Don’t you know a
Butterfly wing
Can start a hurricane
If you just let it swing ?
Don’t  think
Things won’t come back to you
‘cause they always do
‘cause they always do
A poor girl
Asked me for advice
She needed empathy
But I had to focus on me
And as it turns out
She cried her eyes out that day
But I had nothing to say
And she walked away

Don’t you know a
Butterfly wing
Can start a hurricane
If you just let it swing ?
Don’t  think
Things won’t come back to you
‘cause they always do
‘cause they always do

‘cause they always do
‘cause they always do</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A Minor Nova</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4594.html</link>
<description>My attempt at a bossa nova. I started to write words to this song, but it sounded far too cheezy, so I left it instrumental. Some timing and mixing errors because of the way I recorded, but overall not as bad as I would have thought. If anyone is up to add some spanish guitar or singing feel free :)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:42:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Am I the Only One?</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6175.html</link>
<description>I made a major change to my mixing technique with this song. Instead of routing all the drums through one channel and programming them with one midi channel, I made a seperate midi instrument for each drum, which allowed me to mix each drum on its own. Whether this sounds any better is is up to debate.

I really like the chorus of this song, but couldn't come up with any interesting melodic lines for the verse.

Lyrics:
VERSE 1
I see him talking to you
He rubs your leg with his shoe
You tell me you’re just friends
But I don’t believe it
I can see you in the hall
He’s got you pressed against the wall
And that’s cool
That’s just fine
Answer me one thing
Answer it truly this time:

CHORUS
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
Am I lonely one?
Inside your life?

VERSE 2
Are you excited?
Do you feel whole?
is your life spinning out of control?
He’s probably better than I ever was
I bet he gives you a buzz
Don’t think I didn’t notice that glance
It was like you were in a trance
And that’s great
That’s just fine
Answer me one thing,
Answer it truly this time:

CHORUS


VERSE 3
Maybe I’m just paranoid
Maybe I’m insane
Maybe all this asking is in vain
You can’t understand the pain this makes me feel
Maybe all of this stuff isn’t real
I’m sorry if this comes off weird to you
I just want to know
I need to know truth

CHORUS</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>American</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/2980.html</link>
<description>This is my first (individual)  song in which I tried to play the instruments live. I came up with a simply groove and then made up words in a span of about 45 minutes. I only did one take per instrument, so there are several mistakes, but I think It came out alright for the experiment that it was.

The guitar is actually my keyboard with a distortion pedal and a bass amp, the drums are synthesized, and the bass is a heavily filtered midi instrument.

Heavily inspired by the band Bush

Lyrics:
Here I sit, on the top of the world
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours too
I’m the biggest kid in the playground
You speak some up, I’ll push you down
It’s my world, there’s no future
Besides what I want
You get the picture?

Your petrodollar cycles around 
It floats me up
It puts you down
But I don’t care
I never will 
Until the end
Forever still

You Fuel me
I take the cash
Win win for me
Lose lose for you
You disagree
I kick you down
After all,
Your’e just a clown

As I get rich, 
You stay poor
Its good for me
Cause I want more
Pull the veil
Oer your eyes
And take a hint
From my surprise
Youll never know 
And its alright
Cause I’m the king
And you’re the clown
American
I am found</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:23:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Amnesia</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6219.html</link>
<description>Experimenting with double-D tuning for that extra &quot;bigness&quot; on the guitars. I initially  tried yelling the verses, but it  didn't sound very good and just made my throat hurt.

Lyrics:
CHORUS
I want to leave it behind
Those things in my mind
Those things that I hate to remember
And I want to erase
My memories replace
Forget the human race
Forget the human race

VERSE 1
They won’t leave me alone
The people
The faces
Embarrassing places
When I look in your eyes
It reminds me of the times I’ve lied
The times that make me shudder
Thoughts of my past
Thoughts of days last
Days I was stupid
Things that I said
They haunt me
They fill me with dread

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

CHORUS 2

VERSE 2
When I think them I twitch  and I crawl
And I bang my head against the wall
I wish all these thoughts
Would shrivel, die and melt away
But they’re not leaving today
Yet I hope it anyway
I hope to forget it all
I hope something will hit me from the sky
So I’d get amnesia 
And these thoughts would die

CHORUS 3</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:17:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>And it Hit Me</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5816.html</link>
<description>Sorry for the long delay between songs, but I've been extremely busy.

This song was musically inspired by a Temple of the Dog song and the lyrics are loosely based a traumatic experience I had at the age of 7 while sailing on the lake.

My first real song after taking guitar lessons for about a month.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:34:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Avenger</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/3975.html</link>
<description>Well I got tired of strumming guitar chords for a while and decided to synthesize another song in FL studio.

This is a bit out of balance, over-compressed and a little repetitive, but I'm really not concerend.

Cheers.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:42:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Avenger 2</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5136.html</link>
<description>I re-wrote my old song Avenger as a hardcore rock song. The only thing retained from the original is the oboe line, which is played by the lead guitar during the chorus.

Lyrics:
In spite of what I say
I say it every day
I can’t get my way
I spite of what I sing
You just can’t seem to bring
Yourself to me

Why Can’t you listen
Can’t you listen to me
Why Can’t it happen
Can it happen to me?

In spite of what I want
I can’t get any thoughts
You’re sitting next to me
In spite of how I look
I Get it out a book
You won’t listen

Why Can’t you listen
Can’t you listen to me
Why Can’t it happen
Can it happen to me?


No matter how we talk
You’ll never walk my way
You’re like some brick wall
You’re not a thing at all
Just like a stone wall
You’re just passive

Can’t you listen
Can’t you listen to me
Why Can’t it happen
Can it happen to me?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:53:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bachenwald</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/3419.html</link>
<description>This is really a break from my standard type of writing, it's a classical piece that I tried to make sound a bit like bach. Initially it was just really fast organ riffs, but I got a little carried away and replaced the organ with strings and obnoxious brass sounds. 

It's a little repeditive, but it has some variation at the end. 

I hope you like it.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:41:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Becoming a Machine</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4957.html</link>
<description>Another drop D song. The melody came to me in my dreams :p 

I tried to reduce clipping in this one as much as possible.

Lyrics:
I’m becoming a machine
Even more everyday 
Can’t you see how
My head is iron
Even more everyday
Can’t you see now
I’m becoming a Machine

I used to have some empathy
I used to have some sympathy  for you  But I
 never think about any of that anymore
Cause am I am losing my humanity

I’m becoming a machine
Even more everyday 
Can’t you see how
My head is iron
Even more everyday
Can’t you see now
I’m becoming a Machine
Even more everyday
Can’t you see how
My brains cogs
Even more everyday
Can’t you see now
I’m becoming machine

I used think I had some emotion
I used think I had some free thought
I used to think I was creative
But now It’s all transistors


I’m becoming a machine
Even more everyday 
Can’t you see how
My head is iron
Even more everyday
Can’t you see now
I’m becoming a Machine


Becoming A machine
Becoming a machine
Becoming a machine 
Becoming a machine
Becoming a machine
Becoming a machine
Becoming a machine</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 01:29:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Brave New World</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/3887.html</link>
<description>Well, I discovered bar chords and Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New world at the same time, smashed the two ideas together and came up with this.

Lyrics:
BRAVE NEW WORLD
INTRO
VERSEI
Can you see lights at night
They come down from the sky
Striking in our hearts great joy
Yet we just want to die
In the yard the children play
Everything should be okay
Naked alone and without fear
Yet we know that the end is near

CHORUSI
Brave New World (several times)

VERSEII
Centrifugal bubbly puppy
Children are all carbon copies
Lose the news
Forget the hour
Just listen to the 
Alpha power

CHORUSII
Brave New World (several times)


VERSE III
Father Mother Democracy
Now All of it is history
Read books not
And feel a lot
And hope the epsilon can rot away

CHEEZY BRIDGE

VERSE IV (outro)
Have you heard it all before?
Is this like 1984?
But it seems so far away
So there is not much let to say but
Gather round
And educate 
Take the ignorance away 
New world new world new world new world.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:27:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Burner</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4904.html</link>
<description>Finally, a song I can live with. I think the mix is lacking a bit and its clipping here and there, but overall I was fairly pleased with this song. Expect to hear alot more stuff as the weeks go on, as this is my last week of school.

Lyrics:

Follow me and I will see
Where we’ll go
Come with me and we will see
How long it lasts

All I ever wanted was a sign of truth
All you gave me was some kind of youth

You burned me away
You burned me
You earned my trust 
And you burned me
You have the blame upon you
You are the flame and  it’s not you
You took my hand
And crushed it
You took my mind
And you lost it
I wish I could have seen it
You were a siren 

Waiting on the rocks
Waiting on the rocks
Waiting On the rocks

Follow me and I will see
Where we’ll go
Come with me and we will see
How long it lasts

All I ever wanted was to love someone
All you ever gave me was just some good fun

You burned me away
You burned me
You earned my trust 
And you burned me
You have the blame upon you
You are the flame and  it’s not you
You took my hand
And crushed it
You took my mind
And you lost it
I wish I could have seen it
You were a siren 

Go away and never come back
Go away and I don’t really want you back

I should have seen that you were just a burner
I should have seen that you were just a burner</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 18:02:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Calorie</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5111.html</link>
<description>Another &quot;bored in houston&quot; song. Wrote this after eating way too much. Again, I might make it into a real song when I get back.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:32:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Carnegie (working  title)</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6684.html</link>
<description>My first song since coming to college. Really hard to write in this tiny space I literally set up a studio underneath my bed.

Wasn't able to record lyrics yet because of setup issues (my amp caught on fire, etc.)

I will record lyrics in the future.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:19:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Carry Me</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5442.html</link>
<description>Spent pretty much all day writing and recording this song (instead of doing my homework like I should have).

I took way too many takes on this song, so I just interpolated the best of them and mashed them together. Overall there are about 5 separate guitar tracks on this song, with about two takes for all of them, and the vocals are quadruple-tracked (which unfortunately makes them sound muddy)

But overall, I like this song much more than I thought I would.

Lyrics:
Sometimes I don’t feel like walking
Cause I’m not that fast
How I wish you’d carry me
Cause I’m too small
See everything that I can see
fade away

I fade away
Yeah

Tried to be a man
Tried to understand
always ruled by somebody else
Wished for childhood
Hoping that somebody would
Won’t you Carry me
Won’t you Carry me
Won’t you Carry me
Yeah yeah yeah

I can’t deal
I can’t cope 
I can’t live anymore
I can’t change
Can’t embrace anymore
I can’t deal
I can’t Cope 
I can’t live anymore
I can’t change
I can’t embrace anymore

Thought I was so smart
Thought I could take part
Tried to be myself
But I came right off the shelf
Won’t you Carry me
Won’t you Carry me
Won’t you Carry me
Yeah yeah yeah

I’m not feeling well
Sometimes I’m in hell
I’m not strong enough
I’ve got too much stuff


I can’t deal
I can’t cope 
I can’t live anymore
I can’t change
Can’t embrace anymore
I can’t Cope 
I can’t live anymore
I can’t change
I can’t embrace anymore</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:01:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Control Group One</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/3213.html</link>
<description>An extremely long ambient track that I made as background music to a game I was coding.

It's basically just strings and ambient sounds with a synth lead and a strange vocoder guy going &quot;control group one&quot;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:54:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Crazy Man</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4413.html</link>
<description>This was the first song I wrote on guitar when I first picked it up (hence why it only has one chord)
and I decided to re-record it and flesh it out a bit more.

Unfortunatley it was a little too high for my singing range, so apologies if it sounds a bit flat.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:07:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Cynic</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5887.html</link>
<description>A song about..uh...cynicism.
Very much inspired by the late '90s-early '00s postgrunge band Puddle of Mudd. 

Lyrics:
I’m feeling like telling you something
Something that’s been on my mind
Don’t you look at my face 
I want you to Look inside
And you’re starting to smile
But I’m wanting you to frown
I wish you knew my desire
So I could let it drown
And can’t you see
That you’re bothering me
I just want you to feel
A little more like 

Meeeeeeee
A little more like me
My perspective
It’s better on the ground
To think negatively
Seeeeee
A little more like me
My connections
It’s better to be bored
And cynical
Weeeeeee
Need a little more fear
Some understanding
Some rationality
And I’m wanting to
Think
Optimistically
But it’s harder now
To live with my head in the sand

Everything that you tell me
Seems like such a sham
I’m wishing for something exciting
Something with a bam
And You’re taking the easy road
And You’re living your life bland
I feel I’m growing sicker
When wave your hand
And you’re talking in circles
Like a traffic jam
I wish that you’d think darker
A little more like 

Meeeeeeee
A little more like me
My perspective
It’s better on the ground
To think negatively
Seeeeee
A little more like me
My connections
It’s better to be bored
And cynical

You can't take away
My intuition
You can't take away
My own position
You can't make me feel
Your own feelings
Your bitter pill
Is not your decision

You can't take away
My intuition
You can't take away
My own position
You can't make me feel
Your own feelings
Your bitter pill
Isn't your decision</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:18:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Defeat</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5059.html</link>
<description>Well, I've been looking at colleges recently and its been very stressful, because I've come to realize that I'm not all that I've made myself out to be over the years. It's a big world out there, and I'm not the genius I thought I was. This song comes out of that frustration.

Lyrics:
I made a mistake
This was my break
I need to rethink
Rethink myself
I’ve known defeat

There was so much in store in my future
But now I’m little more than a creature
Everyone thought that I was such a genius
But I never had any real achievements
I’ve known defeat

I need to repeat
I need to change
I need to learn
Learn myself
Humility
Sobriety
Conformity
Learn hard work
Fix myself

There was so much in store in my future
But now I’m little more than a creature
Everyone thought that I was such a genius
But I never had any real achievements
I’ve known defeat

Separate
Separate my time
Organize 
Clear my mind
I need to feel
I need to change
I need to work
Procrastinate
Know defeat</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:09:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Dissapear</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/2975.html</link>
<description>Dissapear, one of my more recent songs. Made entirely in FL studio. I plan on making a live version with my band soon.

I made this song when I was rather angry, and although the lyrics dont generally mean anything, I tried to make it vaugely antiwar.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:25:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Do not want it.</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6443.html</link>
<description>First new original song in a while. Happy with everything except the vocals, as usual. 


Meaningless lyrics:

VERSE 1
I don’t have to be perfect
But I wouldn’t feel bad
If I was more special
Than I think I ever had
I don’t have to be wise
But I’d like to be smart
Oh I don’t need to be rich
But that would be a start
And I’d wish you’d just tell me
Where I should go from here
What to eat 
And what to wear
And then I would be closer
To the statue in the hall
Oh then I’d have something
I’d have it all

VERSE 2
Oh I don’t  need to have talent
If  I’ve got a band
I don’t need to keep plans
If I make them out of sand
Oh it makes me feel important
When someone feels small
I push all my problems
On everyone and all

BRIDGE
I’m flawed 
I’m chipped and sullied clay
I have to say

CHORUS
I don’t want it
To have to be this way
I don’t want it
To ruin your nice day
I don’t need it
But I couldn’t do without
I don’t feel it
But you know I feel your doubt

I don’t want it
I don’t want it


I’m flawed 
I’m chipped and sullied clay

Oh I thought I had problems
But I see in a better light
When you know you’re crazy
You’re not really nuts, right?
Oh I don’t have to be special
But I need to play the part
Oh I don’t need to be perfect
But that would be start</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 23:01:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Dont Call on Me</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4832.html</link>
<description>Yet another good song is ruined by out of tune guitars.

Lyrics:
When you need me
I'll be there
And when you want me
I'll be near
When you see me
I'm never there
Thought I was gone
I'm everywhere

Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count(call) on me

I'm everywhere
I'm everything
I'm everyone you thought I'm not

Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count(call) on me

When you abuse me
I'll take it in stride
And when you refuse me
I'll never mind
When you want 
to push me around
I'll be your carpet
for you to walk down

I'm everywhere
I'm everything
I'm everyone you thought I'm not

Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count (call) on me
Don't 
Count(call) on me

When you need me
I'll be there
And when you want me
I'll be near</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 23:03:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Empathy</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4009.html</link>
<description>A droning pop song with terrible singing that I wrote for my girlfriend

What I learned:
Don't sing when you have strep throat.

Cheers.

LYRICS:
How do you feel?
How do you feel today?
How do you feel, today?
Do you feel perfect?
Do you feel sad today?
How do you feel today?

I wanna know cause I care
I wanna know cause I need 
To know

I wish you’d know me
I wish I’d know you too
I wish you’d tell me today
Does it feel ugly?
Does it feel possible?
How does it feel today?

I wanna know cause I care
I wanna know cause I need to know

You think I don’t care
I don’t have empathy
But you mean everything to me
Do you feel passive?
Do you feel obstacles?
How do you feel today?

I wanna know cause I care
I wanna know cause I need to know

You live in a bottle
 beautiful bottle of glass
But you put the lid on
Through which nothing can pass
I wish you’d tell me
I wish you’d need to share
I wish everything for you

I wanna know cause I care
I wanna know cause I need to know
I wanna know cause I need you
I wanna know cause I need to feel</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:32:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Expectations</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6260.html</link>
<description>I was trying to write something faster and meaner than my other stuff, and I don't think it turned out very well. The guitar is using a patch I made, and I think I put way too much flanger on it. I don't know.

Lyrics:
VERSE1
These expectations impossible to meet
It’s hard when you fall to land on your feet
But everybody wants you to
Be something more than you can be
It seems rather stupid to be ideal
Such things are impossible, not even real
But everybody wants you to
Be something better than you’ll ever be

CHORUS

I don’t pretend 
To be
Something more than me
Than me
I don’t pretend
To be
Something more than me
Than me

VERSE 2
You cannot force me
To do what you want
You cannot move me
I’m lazy as a rock
I’d rather just
Sit alone by myself
And do nothing
I’m going nowhere
And that’s okay
I’ve got no future
Just living today
But everybody wants me to
Do something more than I want to  do

B SECTION
Maybe I don’t want to be anyone
Maybe I don’t want to be anyone
Maybe I don’t want to do anything
Maybe I don’t want to do anything

CHORUS</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:45:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Extremist</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5356.html</link>
<description>Day before school starts, and I figured I'd use my last day of summer to write a new song.

I think I should have spent more time on this and come up with a better melody for the verse, but oh well.

Lyrics:
You gotta come to your senses
To get a little respect
Cause nobody listens
To all the hypocrites
So even if you’re right
Singing your song
They’ll still accuse you
Of being wrong
Nobody likes an extremist
They don’t like the fight
maybe if they’d listen
We’d make it all right

You’re so cool
But boring
They’re all fools
And snoring
You’re so extreme
You must be wrong
They’re so serene
It’s what they want
You think so clear
But you’re crazy
They’re gripped by fear
And lazy
If every mind is a battleground
Your mind must be world war one

Set me free
Set me free
Set me free

Your mental jewelry
Is paid for by god
it’s a little rusty
But that’s what you want
They’re twisted and hopeless
So you’re building a bomb
You’re guilty yet shameless
But you’re never wrong

You’re so cool
But boring
They’re all fools
And snoring
You’re so extreme
You must be wrong
They’re so serene
It’s what they want
You think so clear
But you’re crazy
They’re gripped by fear
And lazy
If every mind is a battleground
Your mind must be world war one</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:04:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Facebook Girlfriend</title>
<link>http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6615.html</link>
<description>Playing with 9th chords and feedback. A good idea turned into utter cheeze.

Lyrics:

You never gave us a chance to be
I'm watching face here on the screen
Looking at  every part of you
I don't know if that's right or not
Holding on to my facebook girlfriend
Stealing faces of you

I am a cretin on a screen
Now I know exactly they mean
When they say you can go
When they say you can go crazy
When they say it can make
When they say it can make you creepy

You never knew me well enough
I never knew your name
We always talked about that stuff
But never dived in deep
You say that you need me 
You say it alot
You say you can feel me
But I think not



I always wanted to have more
Wanted to hold your hand
I never had the courage at all
To see the truth inside
We kidding ourselves
Forgetting the real world
But you gotta realize something
Its only pixels there</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:02:44 -0400</pubDate>
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