I mean, I'm not a super big Guided by Voices fan, so I'm not sure what possessed me to cover this song except that I like it.  Maybe I should dig into that rabbit hole.

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Quality Of Armor

A bunch of songs I recorded.  Enjoy.

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LYRICS
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LIFE SUCKS/DROP OUT

There's nothing remotely romantic about this*
Existence, pushing 30 and wonder how
How can I be so inept at living
That all my peers have passed me 3 or 4 times?

"Better late than never"
Better kinda than not"
Every placating adage
Promotes heart-warming thoughts
But it's nothing but lying
And angsty philosophizing
Homo sapiens like me
Will never grow the fuck up!

RISE ABOVE!

How can you help yourself?
I can't parse out what it is I think and feel
It's all noise, shame, static, and echoed hurt
All the thoughts and ideas that will never work
It's a never-ending never-ending thought loop
Convincing yourself that you have no worth
That you're a square peg kind of automaton
And there's no circle where you belong!

Is there something I should be?
How can everyone exist so blissfully?
Some alien mother ship must have left me years ago and
Drove off at ludicrous speed

(Snippet of a Marc Maron track)

Is there something I should be?
How can everyone exist so blissfully?
Some alien mother ship must have left me years ago and
Drove off at ludicrous speed

Please come back I need a home
It's such a heavy weight to always feel alone
Stuck with a self sabotaging temperament, it seems
That there's no hope for me to rise above

MISFIRE

Sitting in this room alone
It's not enough to feel this way
Each new day is slowly killing me
Too anxious to think straight

Feeling restless and so weak
Like a jet engine misfiring
In the end it's in too deep
For a happy ending alternative

Sitting in this room alone
I don't think I feel this way
How is it I ever get to sleep?
Too anxious to think straight

Feeling restless and so weak
Like a jet engine misfiring
In the end it's in too deep
For a happy ending alternative

FIRST AND THIRD PERSON

Is there anything more pathetic than a normal white male
making overly personal punk rock music well into his adulthood?
Or is it just that anxiety aggravation
A tendency to exaggerate the success rate of the peer group

"I hope you fucking die!"
That's not a healthy thought
"Fake it 'til ya make it, baby"
That's what I heard a Youtuber say

Sitting on the top of a monumental tower
An antenna to the sky
Can't see the horizon across the sea with these
Leaden, downcast eyes
Should I take it as a point of pride
To have failed with every advantage at my side?

"Oh won't god bless his soul,
he's doing the best he can."
"Some folks you just can't help!"
Maybe you're one of them

LASTLY

(AVGN shouting)

Oh great, another song on isolation
Another dumb set of self-effacing lyrics assault your ears
I can't help it that I'm paralyzed
And my psychology tints my eyesight gray

How do folks know which path to take?
I've got no tongue but a million things to say!
I am trembling as I write this
Will anyone relate?

Oh boy another song on isolation you didn't want to hear
Another verbal representation of how things feel right now
The last thing I want to say to you before I get out
Is we're all in this right now

Exit Strategy

Lastly

First and Third Person

Misfire

Rise Above!

Life Sucks/Drop Out

Just testing to make sure my Tascam four track still works.  Okay song (needs some rearrangement), terrible lyrics.

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I hate looking down from the balcony
This stream-of-conscious scribbling

I don't think I want to sanctify this power
The need to stretch out all day long

It's a new world looking down
And thank your lucky stars I'm proud


I don't think I want to sanctify this power
The need to stretch out all day long
It's such a bad view from the balcony
You gotta get down and dirty and out from the seats

New World Looking Down (demo - just making sure the Tascam still works)

An old instrumental demo.  I thought it was neat, but I don't know how I could reword it for the drum machine without fucking it up, so it's being uploaded as-is.  No bass on this track, btw.  The Bari in the title refers to the baritone guitar in the left channel.

Bari Manilow

Bari Manilow (Non-Drum machine baritone guitar instrumental demo)

Some song I came up with a really long time ago.  I still play it all the time on the guitar

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