mashup cover of "how would you like it" by lauren aquilina and "somebody else" by the 1975. created in garageband.

together, these songs tell a complicated love story involving possibly cheating and certainly jealousy. who is at fault? "how would you like it" would have you believe it is clear-cut, but i find the lyrics of "somebody else", especially when juxtaposed with the lyrical context of "how would you like it", quite ambiguous.

how would you like it x somebody else (mashup/cover)

an original song i wrote last week, inspired by a poem i wrote in 2019 :)

lyrics (they're meaningless):
you were the labor of centuries.
you would be the envy of millennia. (you already were.)
poetry would be written about you, and forgotten, and dropped in the tide and soak.
your explanations of your nature would be wasted upon the darkening world,
yet your meaning would persist in a weird aching echo;
eden, my child,
eden, my child.

when i looked into your eyes, i thought i knew you.
i saw you, and i knew that even if the toil of centuries
when i looked into your eyes, i thought i knew you.
i saw you, and i knew that even if the toil of centuries had culminated
(culminated) 
in you, it would always merit more beyond comprehension.

(your explanations of your nature would be wasted on a darkening world.)

eden

a parody/cover of "heavydirtysoul" by tøp, satirizing high school administration's discouragement of academic rigor. created in garageband.

lyrics:
if school is tests and essays, numbers, and what’s right and left then 
you’d think they would test the students and put them in classes they would want
this is madness, i don’t need more practice
would be best if i could take those harder classes
my self-esteem is hooked up to my science level, don’t you see it
if you let me into AP i’ll do fine i guarantee it
this doesn’t mean i’m not conforming
it’s just right now i can’t take all the numbers without learning

it’s like forcing us to use an abacus 
i want to learn some spicier calculus
can i take, can i take that, can i take that higher level class?
please 

boredom addicts being told “don’t mind the academic competition”
“start a club” and “don’t do drugs” and “don’t learn calc without permission”
“and i’m sorry, no, you didn’t play it like a politician” 
and the unis asking me now “are you worthy of admission?”
i look up: “i hope so
couldn’t tell you, i don’t really know”
i just shrug, “i guess so
couldn’t tell you, they didn’t let me know”

it’s like forcing us to use an abacus 
i want to learn some spicier calculus
can i take, can i take that, can i take that higher level class?
please? 

boredom angers me like a dog inspires a rabbit
boredom angers me like a dog inspires a rabbit

can i take, can i take that, can i take that higher level class?
can i take, can i take that, can i take that higher level class?
please
can i take that higher level class
please
can i take that higher level class
can i take, can i take that, take that,
can i take that higher level class

integral to my learning (parody/cover)

parody/cover of "don't blame me" by taylor swift, satirizing climate change denial. created in garageband. bass backing from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJHGtuXS2UE.

lyrics:
don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control

i’ve been burning coal a long time 
and profiting from all those lies
just fake news, they don’t think i’m real
oil and gas and all these gray skies
and they don’t know that it’s all my
burning, drying, i know i’m lethal

because of you, i would melt the ice
i would block the skies
i would take human lives
they say that humans aren’t at fault

don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control
don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control

do i exist? well, it’s whatever you decide
but pollution can’t be pushed aside 
i’m manmade, but you don’t believe it
echoes of your animals’ screams 
in the darkest little factories 
i once was just a layer but now i’m your blanket

and earth, my love, i would burn your forests
every year from may to august
i would make you embrace it
they say that humans aren’t at fault

don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control
don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control

if you deny, oh!
“you gotta clean your, gotta clean your forest floors, your forest floors”
everything dies, oh!
“we gotta clean our, gotta clean our forest floors, we can’t do any more"

don't blame me, greed made you crazy 
and you don’t know that you’re out of control
(don’t know that you’re out of control, whoa)

don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control
don’t blame me, greed made you crazy
‘cause the profit only comes in burning coal
that’s how i became me, go on, turn up the AC
you don’t know that you’re out of control

if you deny, oh!
“you gotta clean your, gotta clean your forest floors, your forest floors”
everything dies, oh!
“we gotta clean our, gotta clean our forest floors, we can’t do any more"
don't blame me, greed made you crazy 
and you don’t know that you’re out of control

don't blame me (parody/cover)

original composition. lyrics from my wonderful friend fallow (https://fallow.waterfall.social). "one new message" sound effect from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMzis1gSPI. created in garageband.

lyrics:
mirror mirror in the thrall
do you know yourself at all
you entered so and now you fall
mirror mirror one missed call

radish

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