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The New Colossus of Rhodes

Punknews Mixtape

Punknews Promo 2

This is an interview I did with Ian Mackaye when I was a DJ at 106.9 WWSU in college. 

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This is me doing, essentially, an impromptu stand up performance at The Baron's Ball a while back

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Stand Up May 26th 2012

V1 – I don’t need this shit
I just need to sleep 
Turn the TV set off 
Pour myself one more drink
And pretend like sleep is something I can achieve
My dreams are my god, and it’s hard to believe
In things that you don’t really have any more
Like morals and goals and a soul to explore
And the debt piles up and it rips at my gut
Am I just zoning out?
Am I just fucking up?
Because they’re selling me shit 
I know not to buy
I got my degree 
I purchased the lie 
That my life would be easy, that my life would be free
Well I’m not fucking happy
My life terrifies me
I turn 27 in less than a year
This town is my coffin
The bullet my beer 
I locked myself down to this stool for the night
And after two weeks I forgot how to fight
I gave up on my future, I erased my past
No man’s lands where I stand 
I’m losing my ass
C- And for three easy payments of 9.95
They will sell me my dreams 
They will fix up my life
They’ll give me more debt 
Something more that I owe
Can my future be bought or sold
These days I don’t know
V2 – And yes I held signs
And chanted in streets
I am the 99 percent chance that I will meet defeat 
Cuz my fire and passion 
They are all running out
I’ve got anger and slogans
I’ve got depression and doubts
I rant and I rave
I scream and I shout
And it’s all solving nothing
So I lie on the floor
And jack off until I don’t give a fuck anymore
And this vocal and melody 
They won’t save you soul 
There’s no hope for the hopeless 
I’m no source of control
These lyrics are tantrums 
These lyrics are shit
These lyrics won’t give me a top 40 hit
And so they change nothing
Still young, angry and poor
That’s not really the truth 
I’m young, apathetic, and just another middle class whore
C- And for three easy payments of 9.95
They will sell me my dreams 
They will fix up my life
They’ll give me more debt 
Something more that I owe
Can my future be bought or sold
These days I don’t know

Johnathon Gallienne