Music by Bruce Butkovich
Lyrics by Alias Patrick Kelly

Participation Award
Do you think I’m on the high road
Just to take the long way around?
Only the patient one can get us there.
 
Charts n graphs n Chaperones
Hold my hand inside the store
Another quarter in the swear jar 
That always takes a little more
 
CHORUS
Please, don’t feed any animals
Keep your hands and feet at all times here onboard
I put too much in to this for oh so little
An easy win becomes just another participation award.
 
If I have to say “I told you so”
Then it’s not a win
Another Xmas gift – I’ll be re-gifting
 
Hold my beer I’m coming through
To fall upon your sword for you
Is that a rattle beneath the stone that I’m lifting - For you.
 
CHORUS
Please, don’t feed any animals
Keep your hands and feet at all times here onboard
I put too much in to this for oh so little
An easy win becomes just another participation award.
 
BRIDGE
It’s a victory I guess,
It barely made the charts
The small ones don’t impress
Aw, bless your heart
 
It’s a victory I guess,
Got cast in a bit part
The truth can be finessed
Aw, bless your heart

FAWM

Participation Award

A song about creative frustration and the drive that it takes to carry on anyway.

Corruptibility Index

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Seepage

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Roaming Without a Pardon

Roaming Without A Pardon

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DisFigurine

Disfigurine

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Ladybugs

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Upon Us the Hour

Upon Us The Hour

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Participation Award

Alias Patrick Kelly

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