my VERY NEW song off "a promise", this song is called why and was the very last song to ever be written for "a promise" and i suppose it's sort of a Part 2 to "things" which addressed my growing-ly distant relationship with my family and how i long for things to change for my family. this addresses my family further, and how they've failed to achieve what could have been their greatest accomplishments. the father is a veteran who never paints anymore because of shell-shock, the mother was an aspiring poet, and the brother was the writer who was offered a deal by Random House Books but eventually said no. every family member mentioned had SOMETHING going for them and in the blink of an eye, suddenly had NOTHING going for them.

and the main character -- aka me is in the middle of the wreckage wondering why people give up. this song is about giving up before achieving your greatest accomplishments, for instance, the main character's accomplishment would have been understanding why they gave up in the first place, but like his family does, "he never does". hear what i'm saying? never give up on yr dreams, please.

this song was sorta inspired by "Dead Is Dead" by Terry Lee Hale who was this bad motherfucker who had that song released on a Sub Pop compilation back in the late 1980s and then he VANISHED and i haven't heard any other song by him except Dead Is Dead ...

and the "doesn't march anymore" bit was inspired by Phil Ochs, his first album was called "I Ain't Marching Anymore" and Phil Ochs eventually hung himself in his sister's bathroom.

simon cameron fletcher - why (demo)

simon cameron fletcher - bucket (2009)

simon cameron fletcher - ghouls

Everyday is pastrami day here in Wonderland.

simon cameron fletcher complains about a microphone he bought for $10 on ebay in april 2015

Here is Marshmallow World, this is sort of a dark track which I recorded in August 2014 during a time where I was kind of interested in reading books about mental illness at the South Pelham Library, so this song is about a mentally ill person who is imagining that things are okay in their "marshmallow"/manic mental illness world. They do not realize the severity of their illness because they are too far gone. Speaking of depression and mental illness, Robin Williams died literally a day or two after I recorded this, the only thing I remember is that I sat on the couch with a few group home staff members and watched Good Will Hunting, everything felt still during that moment, nobody said anything, nobody talked even when the movie was over and the credits were rolling. Pure shock. I asked if we could watch Mrs Doubtfire so we could remember the happier, kookier side of Robin Williams but nobody had a copy of it. Two weeks after Robin Williams died, my grandfather died and I spent two weeks in my bed crying endlessly while listening to Leonard Cohen's 1992 album The Future on repeat, to this day, I cannot listen to Anthem without having a breakdown.

The title of this song was inspired by Joy Electric song titles, they always seem really HAPPY and smiley-face, (for instance: The Electric Joy Toy Company, Drum Machine Joy, Candy Cane Carriage, Lollipop Parade, Strawberry Heart, etc.) The objective was to create a song with a happy title but with a totally depressing sound/lyrics. This was also inspired by the song Marshmallow World off that Phil Spector Christmas record...

So anyway, here are the lyrics to Marshmallow World, as for tabs or chords, you're on your own there:

i live in a marshmallow world
where the people are happy
and soft and yummy and sweet
and i'm the only one who walks around town
with a frown on my face

so won't you come with me to the marshmallow world
won't you come to the marshmallow world
we have places for boys, we have places for girls
come stay with me in the marshmallow world

so come with me to the marshmallow world
come live with me in the marshmallow world
come die with me in the marshmallow world

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