That's Really Super, Supergirl

Cardigan

Not Sorry

I can have my fantasies
you've been trying to call me
but you didn't have my new number
and through some strange turn of events
all the messages you tried to send
got lost somewhere in the web
...won't you send them again?

turns out
subscribing to an unending stream of your selfies
isn't helping me forget about you
trying not to seem needy
texting in only emoji
when I'm asking you if you'll see me

I can have my fallacies
just need somebody to love me
and then happiness will follow
but here I find myself
tallying the notches on the lightness of my body
did I leave a mark on you?

I was a "nice guy" back in 9th grade
would have followed you around, never making a sound 
except to say "why haven't I earned your love?"
but now I see: 
turns out getting fucked was the easy part
but it never stuck
and the rare commodity
is a woman who went through all this and still wants to hang out with me

finding solace in casual sex 
only postpones the loneliness
porn binge weekends I'd like to forget 
only postpone the loneliness
posting boards on Pinterest
watching seasons of Iron Chef
javascript and CSS
finding comfort in my friends
only postpones the loneliness

Turns Out

Fool My Body

she's got a lot to say
on the superset of culture and technology
yeah she's got opinions
which automatically make her dangerous

she's got a following
cause she told a bunch of germans how to parse a string
and she's got a foolproof way to know
if you wanna talk tech or are a thirsty rando

how do you live
how do you keep walking forward 
while you look over your shoulder 
and you're peepin' 'round corners
and you're kicking down doors

she's got girlpower
how can we harness the force of girlpower

she's got a human skull
well the skull's inside her head but you never know
cause she's got her enemies
and she'll curse cancer on your family

she's got an improvement plan
with a 30-day window to appease the man
she's gotta show credibility
so she's gotta work twice as hard as me

how do you live...
she's got girlpower
how can we harness the force of girlpower

and she's got me
yeah just what she needs
dubious motives and poor boundaries
and she deflects (we gotta watch out)
with deniability
"i love you, my brother, you're always looking out for me"

"and if the boys stare at your chest 
well you shoulda been more professionally  dressed
and if they don't take you seriously
it's cause you're here to fill a quota for diversity
and if there's men  you should avoid
well why you gotta act so paranoid
and if you should mislay your trust
well then what did you expect from guys like us"

Girlpower

did you know you're the girl of my dreams
cause you were in my work nightmare
i was back at the walgreens
and everyone from the office was there

angry customers filling the store
chained to the registers i couldn't speak
saw our manager locking the door
a silent tear of blood drips down his cheek

and that's a messed-up way of saying you've gotten under my skin
and that's a messed-up way of saying you've gotten into my head
somehow you got past my asshole shield and you can see my weakness

did you know you're the girl of my dreams
how you got in there i wish i could know
"undigested beef, a crumb of cheese
a fragment of underdone potato"

did you know i'm just a meat machine
can't connect what i feel and i think
is it love or is just too much caffeine
is it heartbreak or just too much to drink

Work Nightmare

let me tell you how it starts
i was feeling kind of creepy
i was going through her selfies
that's when the feeling first hit me

i was looking for her glamour shots
but i was smacked in the face 
with her cuddling a dog
and her hanging with her mom

now when i open the app
all her pictures populate at the top of the page
the algorithm knows whats up
my secrets are written in your database

siri don't blow my cover
i'm counting on you to stay
siri don't blow my cover
don't notify her of  my fave
don't surface this in discover
don't let her see my pain
help me out 

let me tell you what's been troubling my thoughts
it seems inevitable that i'm gonna get caught
maybe this song, maybe a screenshot

let me tell you what's been keeping me up at night
i try to be a friend but i can't trust my motives right
kindness coins, ally cookies, white knight

when i look in her eyes
i want to come clean but there's no reason to fear
cause my secrets are safe
with facebook and google and palantir

Siri, Don't Blow My Cover

Cover of the Emperor X track, substituting some crisp 80s digital magic for the lo-fi meets Fleetwood Mac of the original.

Erica Western Teleport

"due this saturday at 9am pacific/12pm eastern, has to be 60 seconds long , no more no less, only uses one 808 kick sample to make the entire track"

borojs slack challenge #1

maybe i should make a song component library

Fossil Record (fragment)

I don't know who I'm talking to
I don't know what I'm talking about
You're not the woman that I fell in love with
If you ever were I've always had my doubts

But whoever you are, you've got my lying
Lying on the floor with a composition book
And the pillow on which I am reclining
Has lain in your place before, just take a look

I've been happy with plenty of girls
Who have loved me, or at least thought I was cute
And days go by where I don't even miss you
I don't need to kiss you, to tell the truth

But there's times when I hear your name
And there's a timewarp back to tenth grade

You are a pitcher plant, I am a thirsty fly
You're digging through my fossil record with a rusty knife
I'm playing in the street, you're playing hotwife
I'm realizing that we never will be satisfied
And after twenty years, have we gone anywhere?
You're sleeping on the floor, I'm hiding in the door
And neither of us could be what the other wants the other one to want to be

The story ain't anything new
Rearrange the names, it's all still true
But Jackie, this one's going out to you

Justin Falcone

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