Written by Briyan Frederick Baker
 Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP
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The music comes from an old 4-track multitrack cassette recording done in my college years. The song was called You Tear Me In Two. The chorus was "You, you tear me in two, babe…" repeated and repeated. The guitar sounds like I was playing through my old Roland 20W amp. It had a kind of raw Fender Twin sound, I think, and I played it with a kind of abandon I wish I had more examples to mine now. I've written new lyrics here.

What Tears Us In Two

What puts up the walls
That keep us apart
That set us at odds
With all our false gods
While nobody wins
What's behind all the grins
To win at all costs
is an unwinnable loss

[chorus]
What tears us in two
Gets between me and you
And nobody's fool is the truth
It's what tears us in two no matter what we do

And all these ill-begotten gains
All this brawn and no brains
Couldn't reframe the pain
Into happy refrains

[chorus]
What tears us in two
Gets between me and you
And nobody's fool is the truth
It's what tears us in two no matter what we do

Stupidity knows no bounds
Stupid sounds alarms
But dumbs down all its harm
Pushing down the snoozes
No matter what it chooses
No matter what is said
It can't escape its head
It can't escape its head

What puts up the walls
That keep us apart
That set us at odds
With all our false gods
When everyone's the same
Regardless of the name
Handed down to each of us
Each and every needless game

[chorus]
What tears us in two
Gets between me and you
And nobody's fool is the truth
It's what tears us in two no matter what we do

What tears us in two
Is not me and  you (it's not)
It's not me and you (it's not)
It's not me and you
No matter what we do

What Tears Us In Two

Blind Mime Music (ASCAP) is a Soundcloud for recordings of songs and music written by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB and Tapegerm Collective) and collaborators. Eventually songs will make their way onto Bandcamp albums and stream on all the usual outlets. Briyan has been making songs since junior and high school and these recordings contain 50+ years of material old and new. The music ranges from glitch pop to experimental.