Name: ... Well, Better Than The Alternative (Better Alternative Edit) by Will Wood in Playlist 2
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: NOTHING HERE IS MADE BY ME, EVERYTHING BELONGS TO WILL WOOD

The starting drum part reminds me of a lemon demon song :3 (the only house that’s not on fire (yet)

my life sucks right now and will wood is taking some of the pain away

Then when we find out what's wrong with me will you tell me how I'm right for you🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Marsha Thankk You for the Dialectics but I Need You to leave will wood

Song is not mine.

All credits go to Will Wood.

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Venetian Blind Man - Will Wood

Will Wood takes on the perspective of a doomed mouse. Released with a stop-motion animated video by Ivan Fisher-Owen featuring intricate laser cut wood engineering and hand-animated real-world puppets, optical illusions, and animated machinery.


==Lyrics==

I have mapped the cupboards and drawers
Tracked the least-walked spots on the floor
Happy to be home, safe and warm
As shadows by their feet, the odd vanishing treat
Quietly eating while they sleep

So here’s where I’ll be raising my kids
If I can find someone to start a family with
Till then I dream of the day my odds and ends fit
I’ll wake up, there’ll be food on the stove forever
And never want for more

Is there cheese in the great beyond? 
Rinds of parmesan, wine to water, night from dawn
Life gets shorter, teeth grow long
Mind me not and I’ll mind my own, and my mind’s
Not one bite smaller or lesser than yours
Do I belong in “right and wrong?”
Nature, I guess.

One night one flung light through this place
So I run for cover, over under, left the rind out on the plate
Little heart racing and praying “something keep me safe,
I think it saw my face, okay,
One hungry day is nothing, come what may.”

But then winter came inside for three nights 
Left me grinding my teeth between my walls and gripping my dreams tight
Curled up kept my head up and put up the fight
I’ll make it through again. I have before. Come on now, what’s one more?

Is there cheese in the great beyond? 
Rinds of parmesan, wine to water, night from dawn
Life gets shorter, teeth grow long
Mind me not and I’ll mind my own, and my mind’s
Not one bite smaller or lesser than yours
Do I belong in “right and wrong?”
Nature, I guess.


Spring bloomed in the kitchen again
So I crawled out of the wall and squinting
Saw hope on the stovetop just like I’d always imagined it
More than I could eat, my dreams were finally reality
My struggles had a happy ending, they must want to be friends!

My stomach starts to turn, with thirst, why does it hurt?
My just desert is served, dig in.

And so I stumble back to bed
Something’s not quite right. Guess I’ll just go rest my head
Now as I lay me down to sleep
I expect no dreams, and no sweet goodbye to me
Flatline in the morning light. I held on so tight for so long
It’s just not right, let a sigh out as I close my eyes.
Was that all there was to this?
What’s for the best?

Is there cheese in the great beyond? 
What’s the moon made of? Meet me there after I’m gone
Life gets shorter, teeth grow long
Mind me not and I’ll mind my own and my mind
Held the same light as the one in your eyes.

Do I belong in “right and wrong?” 
One dies alone? And why? Don’t know.
Goodbye. So long. 
To mice in homes.

Nature, I guess.
Nature, I guess.
Nature, I guess.

Tomcat Disposables

You know I couldn’t hurt a fly, my friend, I’m not the type to step on ants
I’ve nearly cried for moths that die at porch light lamps
More for the plights of mice than men
See I myself have been stepped on so many times
It’s started to feel like my place
I’ve failed to fit into those nests that scrape the sky 
Is there room for me in your cage?

Animals are people too, but these people are animals
Hunt in packs and act as though that proves we can’t survive alone
I guess we just evolved disgust for prevention of infection though
Shame was an invention made for prisons, pales, and pest control
Yeah, sure, thumbs are great and all

But I just get “bare necessities," "Hakuna Matata"'s and "C’est le vie"'s,"
"Que sera sera”'s what a crock, I mean, 
Big talk for a chimpanzee!
You might seem behind bars, but friend, this cage is inside out.
It’s awful out here, Socrates.

I’ve never understood what humans do and want it’s quite confusing
To me to try to connect
Never learned how I should feel, instincts somehow stunted
Just seem haunted by my stupid urge to protect
Until frustration makes me wish my teeth were sharp as yours
Chew through their garage doors these carnivores will no more use my heart
They’d call me crazy, but their words all seem made up to me
Maybe they just need more friendship like yours

Gather ‘round pandora’s skinner’s box, look through the one-way-mirror
If you can see in shades of gray the colors are much clearer
Oh my friend, you’ve got a friend in me, et’s go make more enemies
Alhough my eyes face forward climb up on my shoulder
Sure you’ll see my point of view, I’d bring you with me

To the office in my pocket but the world would put us down
Lock me up and toss the key
You might seem behind bars, but friend, this cage is inside out
It’s dangerous out here Socrates
It’s lonely out here Socrates

Willard!

I don’t owe you my heart, and I don’t owe you my body.
But you should know that I’m sorry for being careless with you.
Lord knows I owed you more, than I’m pretty sure I ever could give anybody
But I can’t pin down what normal people want from foreign objects
Bottom-shelf erotic products like me

So, I could hold your hand but keep you at arms’ length
Oh, hang me from a branch too high to climb and shake
Less rare than scarce, less diamond than rough
Unlikely to be more than the coal you fail to crush

I swear I’m really trying.
Get it together, Will, know and do better
It just don’t come natural to me to think
That you’d want me for me
I swear I’m really trying
I’m sorry, I promise, I’m doing my best
I just haven’t learned how to be human as you are yet

I still don’t know who you are. I only know that I’m still lonely
That morbid sort where even company can’t cure me
And the more you reassure the less I trust
But still you gave me your heart, I only gave you my body.
Honestly thought nobody’d want it, let alone notice it’s
Gone and so I left it home but now
Now, now, now

I keep a locket with a picture of the back of my head
Oh, monkey-wrench my side view mirrors, ghost my friends
I’ve lived more lives than enough, I haven’t died quite as much
But I’m not a real person, just the shit you can’t make up

I swear I’m really trying
I’m just as exposed if I take off my clothes 
When we make the closest thing to love that I’m capable of
I don’t know why you would care. But I’m really trying
I’m sorry, I promise, I’m doing my best
I just haven’t learned how to be human as you are yet

Did I really 
Have any of that gravity? Maybe you’re quicksand
Because I really couldn’t tell how deep my footprints went
The vertex of my redemption arc, the searching of that virgin heart
I’m catatonic in your arms, cryin’ “how did I cause so much harm?”

I’m down pounding my head against the kitchen floor
Apologizing for my life and ever entering yours
Don’t say “I’m sorry but this can’t go on” I know you got scars of your own,
But hide my knives before you go, I’ll either live or die alone

I swear I will die trying
I’m still in the process but I’m making progress. 
I promise I honestly want to prove improvement’s possible
I swear I’m so fucking sorry
I’m not a good person, I’m barely a person at all, but 
Someday I’ll be perfect and I’ll make up for it all

Against the Kitchen Floor

Huling El Bimbo

Magasin (Live at 2022 The Eraserheads Reunion Concert)

NOTHING HERE IS MADE BY ME, EVERYTHING BELONGS TO WILL WOOD

I - Me - Myself (2018 Live In Studio Demo)

Love, Me Normally

Karen, Thannsdfghjkl You for the Casserole, But I Need You to Lea-n into a Typo (Marsha 2024 Edit)

... Well, Better Than The Alternative (Better Alternative Edit)

A Double Suicide - Sheena Ringo (slowed)

original video: https://youtu.be/eXCpFUFrly0?si=a5YzfJ2fv3O_1JTK

i do not own this song; overall song credits go to 0TS/0tenshi, credit for tuning goes to Mage-P, and illustration credits go to himawanai

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Restricted by a flimsy alibi
I’d rather not regret the days we spent
Every day holds the same repeated
unrestricted apathy
I wouldn’t dare complain

I've tried for years to earn your love and grace
So crisp around the edges, learning my place
Even so, every day, I can hear a 
demon calling out to me–
“Your efforts here
will only go to waste”

Trapped in Omelas behind
A wall of choker chains
Say my name, say my prayers before you
Let me take the blame
Twisting shame, like a dagger, like a blade
In your hands, through my veins
The canaries cry but know I can’t be saved

I just wanna be someone that never has to grow
With a bendy sense of self
mold me into something low
I’ll take it with a smile
as you’re brandishing your knife
If you treat me like a game
could your love please be my prize?

I can't remember what it's like
to put up a fight
or to do what's right for me
‘cause when happiness and peace is a dream, oh
no one really cares just how innocent you seem

I try to tell myself you're good on the inside
but all my common sense tells me to run and hide
God, give me a sign that I'm doing something right
or I'll look me in my eyes and decide
IT’S TIME TO DIE

A rigid type of love-monopoly
I'll place all of my bets on winning your praise
In the end, though we're friends, I can feel your
hate taking a toll on me, you
rip my art to shreds
rip my heart to shreds
I can't
handle it, handle it, handle anymore
take another day, suck it up and,
take what it'll take for me to stay
standing by your side 
smothering my pride 
shattered, paralyzed
If I leave then won't I be alone again?

Coursing through me’s an emergent urgent sense of dread
as divergent words are surging through a level head
I'm submerging all my worries in a Daemon Thread
Always perfect, always working ‘till my final breath

All I wanted all this time was just to be myself but
now I can't recognize my own voice
With your hands,
rip my persona into shreds 

I can't remember what it's like
to put up a fight
or to do what's right for me
‘cause when happiness and peace is a dream, oh
no one really cares just how innocent you seem

I WELCOME SHAME AS IT BEATS AT MY CONSCIOUS
HOLD IT SQUARE IN YOUR HANDS, A HILT-COMPLEX
I SAID I WOULDN'T GIVE UP UNTIL MY LAST BREATH
BUT I'VE LOST IT ALL

I can't remember what it's like
to be somewhat liked
to be more than just a tool
‘cause when all that you believe is a lie, oh
no one’s there to care or understand you when you cry

I never wanted this, oh, I'm just a kid
but my destiny is set and the walls are closing in
Someone please, take my hand, I just wanna be your friend!
Don't just look me in the eyes and decide
IT’S TIME TO DIE

... Well, Better Than The Alternative (Better Alternative Edit)

Will Wood

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