Dark comedy.
Dark comedy.
It starts to be all you have.
Until you're old beyond your years
and it doesn't feel so sad.

You've got to hold on.
It's already begun,
One more trip around the sun.

You'll spread your wings.
Start to fly,
You're like a bird heading south.
You'll find your way.
To a sweeter place.
Till dark comedy finds you out.

You've got to hold on.
It's already begun,
One more trip around the sun.

Yes there is a chance that this will be your last.
Yes there is a chance that this will be your best.
Yes there is a chance
Yes there is a chance.....

One More Trip Around The Sun

title track of the rpm challenge album
lyrics
It's the same thing everyone knows.
We all feel a little exposed.

Coming out of the fire
stepping into the brand new fire.

New Bottom Line

Ira's Organic Blog Farm

You've been here before I think.
lyrics
You say you're living in an airport bar
and if you work hard enough,
you'll get to sleep in the car.
It's southern California where it never gets cold
so, I don't care if you don't.
I won't say it with a silent phone!

But I'm still here lying in my bed.
Right where I was
on the day that you left.
Wondering about the world outside.
Is it still there?
Was it all a lie?

Some say love
it is a waste of time.
You're just counting down the days until you say goodbye.
Some say love
is all you'll ever know.
Yes.
That and the roar of a silent phone.

I Dont Care If You Dont

Inanimate dance steps
float through the air.
And your Hollywood jailers,
babe, they're already here.
You say you don't feel like
you're being locked in a cage.
But, you haven't seen daylight
in how many days?

Unlimited data!
Texting and talk.
Unlimited access
to nothing at all!!!

We're so post now
we're stuck in the past.
A more elegant ice age
is right down the path.

We've lost all the difference
between waking and sleep
between eating and starving
between the growth and the shrink

And it really shows
on everyone's face.
You really know.
How to bring down the place.

Back in the day
we used to have to sleep.
And keep ourselves good company.
Back in the day
we used to have to sleep.
And hunt to eat.
Back in the day
we used to have to sleep.
We used to burn fires for heat.
Back in the day
we used to have to sleep.

Post Now

I started writing this song at the beginning of February thinking about what new sounding things I could do for this album. I wanted something a-typical, and eventually got this kinda Latin Jazz thing happening. Then I found the organ sound on my keyboard. I knew I had a hit. I came up with the lyrics in like 35 minutes, just writing things down on a big piece of cardboard and doing word association until i had enough key phrases to make a story.

lyrics
You can't go back to 1995.
You can't go forwards or backwards through time.
But you can go back
to the Crap Dragon again. 

Fake Jazz

I used to take the Greyhound bus to DC and then take the Chinatown bus from DC to NYC a much as I possibly could. It always struck me how much prettier Pittsburgh is than DC. I mean, "Pitts" is right in the name of the place. Names lie sometimes.
lyrics
Pittsburgh is a nicer city
than out nation's capital.
She's got bright lights!
She's got Asian Russians.
No, it is not lost at all
on the marble mall,
that she's backed against a wall.

Arlington, you are so lovely.
But you're just too far away.
From the duty frees,
and the great cuisine,
and the shows at the Girl Cave.

Arlington! Comeback to Washington
District of Columbia and stay!
Without a monument,
you are queen of a continent.
But you're just too far away.

Arlington! Comeback to Washington
District of Columbia and stay!
Without a monument,
you are queen of a continent.
But you're just too far away.
From everything I came to see.
The rows of embassies!
Back in Washington DC.

Pittsburgh is a nicer city
than out nation's capital.
She's got bright lights!
She's got Asian Russians.
No, it is not lost at all
on the marble mall,
that she's backed against a wall.

Arlington Come Back To Dc

A fellow brown person and I had been doing a running gag something to the amount of "It's not that I hate you becuase of your race, it's just that I hate your face."  Two or three years worth of "facial prejudice" jokes followed.
Sortly after, I'm humming to myself while I was out looking for a job.  This song almost came out perfectly intact the first time.  Unbelievable.

"Finding the job you want in the city where you live
can take a couple years off your life.
Yeah, if you let it.
Finding true happiness with the one that you love
can be really difficult if you don't have good drugs."  

Rachel Hatred And Her History Of Facial Prejudice Inst

Write this song live at a festival.  I think I was actually singing to someone's dog during the "puppy dog" verse.

"Here he comes again.
That old puppy dog.
With the saddest eyes.
He needs more love.
You don't really know if you can give enough,
but you gotta try.
At least once." 

New Static For The Radio

Pretty sure there is a Merv & The Mystery Meat song I ripped off when I came up with this riff, but since that band is fictional anyway, they can fight me.

"There's a pattern of retrospect
that frankly, feels more like neglect.
For all your run-on sentences,
you're never saying anything.

Just step right up and say your name.
Maybe earn yourself some fame around the world.
Or dust and rot in your hometown.
Wonder why you hung around.
Was it only just because you thought you were in love?
So dumb, so dumb. So what?"

Marvin The Robot

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