Well, this one might be a little bitter about the world...

Fuck You, Motherfucker, It's Christmas

A little guy-n-guitar tune I wrote a few years back. 

Love Song '11

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The Afterparty

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Thursday Doodle

A bouncy track about donuts.

====LYRICS====
Wake me up when you got me a donut
Nothing fancy, keep your freakin’ pinache
Boston Creme? Tell you what,
Back a truck up
Wash my face with chocolate ganache

The 1934 World's Fair
In Chicago, Illionois
Advertised donuts as
"The food hit of the century of progress"
And it was.

Once I was in Tokyo and missed the subway train
So I stopped to buy a tasty treat with which to ease my pain
I asked what flavors do you have the lady told me “Honey”
But just one bite revealed to me she actually said… “Curry”

Somewhere in the world
One of the billions of us
Is working day and night
To make donuts
Healthy

My friend Alisha went to Voodoo with her kids
They encountered donuts apropos to a certain state of ids
These donuts started life shaped like what you often find in pants
But her kids enjoyed the filling in their tasty… elephants

I’m cool with kolaches
I’m down with a danish
I’ll bury a bearclaw
In three seconds it’s heinous
Show me a canoli and I’m keeping my mouth shut
Oh that’s an eclair?
All hail the French donut!
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Cover image by Elena Kycheva (@lenneek on IG)

Donut

A dance-pop setting of the Lakota legend of how Porcupine got his quills.
http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8682

====CHORUS====
I am a porcupine Erethizontidae
I am a porcupine family Hystricidae
Porcupines stick together [stick together]
Through thick and thin
Linen cotton silk and leather

====VERSE 1====
Long ago, when the world was new
I was practically naked, I was styling too
But brother Bear came along and omg tried to eat me
I barely got away, scampered up a frikkin' tree

====VERSE 2====
Next day hanging out in a dangerous bush
I got poked by stickers in my little naked tush
I said to myself, self you know what this is?
It's the perfect solution to my existential crisis.

====CHORUS====

====VERSE 3====
When Bear came along I just curled up in a ball. 
Dumb bear got pierced a hundred times right in his stupid paw.
Iktomi saw what happened and that kid is sick
Glued the thorns to my back and said "dude now go make 'em stick."

====VERSE 4====
Old wolf came along, stupid wolf with his mange
Thought he was king of the forest, well some things have changed
He jumped on my back and it was massive regret
'Cause now ol' Porcupine is a hard target

====BRIDGE====
I am a porcupine
All your bark is mine
I'm looking pretty fine
I have 30,000 spines
I don't mean to boast,
But I'm pretty as a rose
Don't get too close
Or I'll poke you in the nose

====CHORUS 2x====

Porcupine

Tumbleweeds only spread their seeds after they die, rolling across the open ground and flinging them out as they tumble along.

----LYRICS----
Happiness and love and discotheques
None of these our science detects
But this is what the state of the art reflects:
Life on Earth has lasting effects
 
The living dead are all aware 
They’re rolling like a tumbleweed
Even my last breath of air
Is rolling like a tumbleweed

Every time I didn’t care
Rolling like a tumbleweed
Every night I wasn’t there
Rolling like a tumbleweed

And when you die, your memory
A ghostly tumbleweed
Scatters what you meant to me
Long after you cease to be

The only way to leave no trace
Is to never be born in the first place.

The John Benjamin Band

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