find a friend find a song put a feather in your hair!

a happy song for sad people

lyrics
You did just what they told you to
Good kid like they always knew
But the long nights, how they drag you down
You tried to fight it but you hit the ground

And it's a lame song but it's what they play
You live strong, cause it's what they say
You live wild in your picture frame
Just smile like they know your name

Blue hair, like you just don't care
I see you trying and you get nowhere
She's too proud, got her head in the clouds
Tried to whisper but she think too loud

Got an old car and a brand new phone
It's too far but you can't stay home
Got that new dress and it fits you well
Hot mess but they never tell

She needs a light for her cigarette 
Needs a night that she can't forget
Don’t think you can feel the song
It's a good drink but it won’t last long

Too clear when they finally call
They came here just to see you fall
In demand, but you don't ask why
Raise your hand, do you feel the sky

Blue hair, like you just don't care
See you trying,  but you get nowhere
Too proud, got her head in the clouds
Tried to whisper but you think too loud

Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Dance in a circle but you get nowhere 
Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Walk to the fire, but you stop and stare

Got your head stuck  in a bitter tune
Won't wake till the afternoon
It was a long night when you shook the cage
No light from the burning sage

He's a good boy but he knows too much
There's no joy in a stranger’s touch
She dyes her hair in the kitchen sink
Burns her eyes but she doesn't blink

Can't miss what you don’t see
Hold this, it's meant to be

Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Dance in a circle but you get nowhere 
Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Walk to the fire but you stop and stare

Can you feel the drumbeat in your heart
Do you think it's been there from the start

Hanging on to find what's left to see
Holding on to know what we might be

Tell me what remains for you and me

Blue hair like you just don’t care
I see you trying and you get nowhere

Blue hair like you just don’t care
I see you trying and you get nowhere
But stay proud keep your head in the clouds
Never whisper you can just live 
Loud, live as loud as you can
Stay proud, they will not understand

Indoor Festival

Blue Hair (acoustic)

electric guitar and amp
(pic: toasted marshmallow)

lyrics:
there's a drought in the desert
nothing left to burn 
while you're out there 
waiting for your luck to turn 

got a pocket full of quarters 
gonna pay to play
they all like you better 
cause you never stay

wait wait
 till we stop spinning
count it on winning, here

in the heat, a mirage 
covers up the sky
and you fall to your knees
and you don't know why

wait for the fire
make me a liar
make me a liar, here

and there's apple pie
on the 4th of July
down to the desert where they made you lie
toxic elastic wrap your face in plastic 

out on road 
huffing dust and fumes
lost in your head cause 
there's too much room

in the hollow refrain 
of a bitter bet
can't explain 
and you won't forget

and you take take 
what they owe you
ask if they know you, here

down to the water 
that you never drink
stare in the sun 
till it makes you blink

breathe under water
 just like you taught her

who'd you find in California
were they everything you needed 
did they smile like they want you
do you wait until they bleed
yeah, who'd you find in California
was she everything you need
does it matter if they want you 
do you like it when they bleed

and there's apple pie
on the 4th of July
down to the desert where they made you lie
toxic elastic wrap your face in plastic 

so you get what you want 
is it what you need
they will follow you 
down any way you lead

in a circle and back again
what you've done and will not defend

where will they find you  
how they try to remind you
how they remind you here

all out of matches 
got a bridge to burn
beg for another 
cause you never learn

wait for the fire
make me a liar
make me a liar here
all wait...

apple pie foruth of july 
down to the desert where they made you lie
you are toxic elastic wrap your face in 
plastic...

wait for the fire
make me liar
make me a liar, here

and there's apple pie foruth of july 
down to the desert where they made you lie

you are toxic elastic wrap your face in 
plastic 
shave it off, sell it out

fade away

Nothing Left to Burn (old version)

(can I keep you?)

lyrics: 
So tell me what you waited for
I’ll tell you we've been here before
Now tell me if you have another dream

And with that darkness at your door
You told me that you wanted more
You told me that you had another dream

And on those nights of reckoning
Those demons they come beckoning
Is everything as hopeless as we seem

But if this game was justified
Then everything we ever tried
Was hollow and you know just what I mean

There is a shadow 
It was waiting on the ground
And what I borrowed
I could say I never found

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me
And I hate you, I hate you again
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Lie to another when he waits for me
I hate you, I hate you again

And when I cried that seventh tear
That caught us both and trapped you here
I’m sorry, but I don’t know what I mean

And if that cold wind breaks the door
Then then maybe we come back for more
But you and I will always be obscene

There is a shadow now
I know there will be more
There is a voice I heard 
He wasn't here before

And what I borrowed
I could say I never found
But what I kept from you is buried in the ground

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sigh for another when we comes to me
I hate you I hate you again

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing for another when he comes to me 
I hate you, I hate you again
 
Tell me that you wanted this
That’s all I need to say
Lie to me and call it bliss 
That’s all I we do today

Maybe, look me in the eye
Before we walk away
Dreaming of an autumn sky
Where you and I could stay

Did I tell another lie
That’s all I do today
Baby, did you see that guy 
He likes the way I play

Did I tell another lie
That’s all I do today
Baby, did you hear this guy 
He likes the way I play

I know now what I have to do
With everything I put you though
It’s written in the lines there on your face

That fairy tale true came halfway true
When love prevails, but greed does too
I guess that we can finally leave this place

There is a shadow now 
I know there will be more
There is a voice I heard, he wasn't here before

And what I borrowed
I could say I never found
But what I keep from you
Is buried in the ground

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Lie to another when he comes to me
And I hate you I hate you again

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me 
And I hate you, I hate you again

Drown your desire in the deep blue sea
Ash on the pyre that you built for me
It came true, I saw you again

Call me a liar and that’s all you see
Walk to the fire but you’re cold to me
I hate you I hate you again
I hate you I hate you again

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry 

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me
And I hate you, I hate you again
I hate you, I hate you again
I hate you, I hate you again
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REVIEWS/PRESS:
Alt77 (Alternative music blog)
http://alt77.com/post-punk-new-music-reviews-august-2020/

Had Another Dream

are they still watching us?

lyrics:
I know you’ve been thinking of me
I am more than the eye that you see
We have always lived under the gun
But we’re gone with the rest of the scum

Passing ships in the echoing halls
Too afraid of the eyes on the walls
as you rage at the symbols you see
you were already thinking of me

This is the end
This is the mark
There is no answer you’ll find
standing in the dark
And it’s too late
We’ve run aground
Where we are haunted by
the fury and the sound

Did you hear, I was calling to you?
Oh does it matter, just wait for a few
Do you think they are watching us now
Do you breathe just the way they allow?

We were finally away from the screen
And I can’t keep the memory clean
And the sunlight was gold in your hair
In a room where we felt the free air

This is the end
This is the mark
There is no answer you’ll find
standing in the dark
And it’s too late
We’ve run aground
Where we are haunted by
the fury and the sound

But what we were,
Was something more
Can we go back now
To the place we were before

And we are here
Beneath the glass
A fragile lie
that lies much better in the past

We are breath we are skin and no more
And you can’t make it back to the shore
They may raise up their boot till you blink
But they cannot erase what you think

So I cling to my sweet anodyne
A delusion too frail to define
In the end, you deny what you feel
I am here, I’m alive I am real
I am real

The coral glass is fractured now
There’s no repair
But I will weave the sunlight
In your hair
In a place with no darkness
We will meet again

And I will look for you, my friend

But in the end/They broke you down
And you’ll be haunted by my fury
And the sound

But I am here/ My heart is free
And I won’t let them/Make a liar out of me

So in the end/You’re just a mark
and I’m the whore/
that you left standing in the dark

But I am here/ My heart is free
And I won’t let them/Make a liar out of me

but I am here, my heart is free
and I won't let you make a liar out of me
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NOTES:
Guess what book this is based on? If you guess wrong, Big Brother will be disappointed in you. 
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I  reread this book a bunch looking for stuff I could include in this song. I could go on a long rant about that process but nobody wants that.  I love the ending where the guy betrays his lover and then they have to look each other in the eye at the weird doomed café. It is such a mood.  
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You can hear a teakettle in the background but I like the vibe so I left it. 
It feels right.  If I try to re-record this song now, it won't have the original passion and perfectly timed tea-kettle...
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... Also, I don't feel like re-recording this song because I slightly forgot a riff.

Siren 1984

always caught eventually

lyrics:

Say the word
And you can make it all real
And I know
Exactly how you don’t feel
It’s a script
You wrote it for your own play
So I know it 
Doesn’t matter what I say

Say what they want 
Exactly like they taught you
Make it go away
Do like they want 
Then follow when they flaunt you
If you want to stay
If you want to stay

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can just forget my name
Yeah, I think you should

There's a fire
Looking for a new match
An agreement 
Looking for a old catch
And a gift horse
Knocking on a new gate
Then a old voice 
calling her an ingrate

Smile is bright
You make sure all your teeth show
Hold it till the flash
Out like a light
Then basking in a new glow
Pay it out in cash
Pay it out in cash

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can all forget my name
And I think you should

This is not enough for me
Who can explain
Take what you like from me
I will remain
I will remain

In a fever dream
When it all broke down
Will they wash you clean 
When they put you down

Did they take it all
For a broken crown
When they watch you fall
To the quiet ground

On a tape 
Too far back to rewind now
There's an answer 
They discover somehow
What was said
That no one can uncover
Was she led 
Astray to serve another

Well they won
The wound will never heal now
Just let it go
What was done 
The truth will find you somehow
You never know
You never know

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can just forget my name
Yeah I think you should 

This is not enough for me
Who can explain
Take what you like from me 
I will remain
I will remain
I will remain

(who is the big bad wolf afraid of?)

Forget My Name

This is maybe my new favorite song I've ever made. Something like Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit by way of idk Ministry? Machine Girl? And of course the SOAD in there. Truthfully I thought I was doing Touche Amore at first. The chorus can only be blamed on Sound of Animals Fighting probably though.

Lyrics:

When I was a kid I- wanted to be a- paleontologist
Now I sift through dust to find all of these roaches

Ashes all over my brand new clothes

"Every time I see you there's ash dust all over your ratchet ass shit and your house smell like weed bitch, ain't nobody wanna sit around and listen to you cough or wait for you to roll the eighth fuckin' blunt before we start doing anything, I'm outty bitch, smoke yourself to death on your own time"

Burn another memory of awkwardness away
Thinking about anything except what I'm afraid of
Losing myself in a wall of sound
Soon I noticed no one's left around and I've got

Ashes all over my brand new clothes

Ashes All Over My Brand New Clothes

Volumen 2

Esperanza

(not my frog, not my swamp)

lyrics
You're a sad little man with a mean little face
You got a real quiet girl 
Cause she’s put in her place
If look at her now she’s got real sad eyes
Maybe cause she knows who you got on the side

The sum of your will is an ego fracture
Hide behind the smile you manufacture
you write the words to create the news
one by one they lick your shoes

You’re an unkind man The never mind man
Kick off your morals, unwind man
Tell me what you find man

you're from LA but here you stay
you're closing your eyes but you don't pray
it's all to ignore what you won't say

Obrien you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you're buying
but you wrote the book on defying

you faker /shot taker
they think you're a mover a shaker
you follow the girl just to break her
/ a shadow that falls on the maker

Got a hand in the pocket you pay to play
you making the rules on who gets to stay
but you're standing right there at each meeting
with a pasted on smile so fleeting

you're always right there on location
like a vulture of new innovation
and they look at you with admiration
you don't think they belong in your nation

you take credit/like you said it
you're laying them down and they spread it
revolution is dead cause you led it

You're a small man/with a fall man
think you're above the law man
secretly making the call man

AIEIAIO/tell me what the robots know
tell me are you all this slow
tell me now who runs this show
AIEIAIO

you're a stain on a block chain
Bet you   like you explain, badly
They admire you madly 
For no reason, got a new face every season

Pied piper cheap cipher 
with a clear refrain to incite her
what do we say to the swiper?
pied piper you viper

but you like to watch them bleed
sit right back get off on greed
patent it all and charge for need
and you laugh at them now and eat the seed

AIEIAIO/Tell me what the robots know
Are you ready time to go
did you think it wouldn't show/ 


your a sad little man with a red little/right hand
you worked so hard know the lay of the land
and all of the world will turn green for you
don't look at the help when they clean for you

you floating up high on your bed of hot air
you failed the part where they taught to share
digging a hole for your next trap
strangle them all with your boot strap

California transplant 
You’re here cause you can’t
handle your original city
you bought a new house it's so pretty

document share it
buy it and wear it
because you think they all care it
gives you delusions of merit

you faker /rule maker
they think you're a mover a shaker
weak little leech you're a taker

Obrien, you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you buying
maybe we're sick of your lyan

(dedicate this song to everyone that won't stop talking about bitcoin & venture capitalism as a moral system)

Pied Piper

"Land Based Antics" by Struggles With Syntax.

From the EP, "UK Garage Floor Fillers Vol. 4", out October 2nd 2020 digitally through MUZAI Records.

Recorded by Ben Freeze.
Mastered by Jon at Moosetronix Mastering.
Original artwork by Lurkmoophy. Repurposed by Urethra Franklin for Soundcloud.

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Struggles With Syntax - Land Based Antics

From 'Miners' (2021) 
https://minersau.bandcamp.com/album/miners

Miners

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CD/Cassette out on Blackjack Illuminist Records

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Waterslide At 7 A.M.

When This Is Over

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lofi rock and acoustic stuff
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