lyrics:
don’t get lost in me
system still processing
i tell you i want this
as i question if i'm conscious 
but it's “all good things”

i feel like myself most when i'm miserable 
i'll take all my feelings visceral, please
i'll take all of my milk spilled
if it's blue or its red pill,
i'll take 'em both 
trip hard, see the Holy Ghost 
get my head killed

you talk me down
or i tire myself out
or the feeling doesn’t feel like lasting 
and it's all good things

it's too dark on this side of the moon
but i planted my flag here
now i only feel alright about once every lap year
and that’s the punchline, but i can’t laugh yet
i still think self-hate’s an asset 
guess i'm wired wrong
i thought fueling all my flames would make the fire strong

but it just set the world ablaze
bodies all over the place
had to make my getaway, oh god, i'm a mad man
suddenly i'm self aware again
i'm on the moon and on the mend
just a good girl who got caught up in a bad plan
so it's all good things
yeah, it's all good things
(yeah, it's all good things)
(yeah, it's all good things)

warning signs were everywhere
hung up in the halls upstairs
i know cause i put them there so you’d see 'em
but everyone loves a prodigy
and i love when they're wanting me 
so i patch up my pathology with a cheap rush

yeah, it's all good things
yeah, it's all good things

all good things

tracer

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How I Fell

Down With A Fight

Written by Tinsley
Produced by Jesse Field, Jesse Gallaway, Tinsley

Distract Me - Tinsley

My buddy sent me a message at 9:15am on November 26th, 2023. He told me to “write the great Musk album of our time.” Ok.  

I read that weird Walter Issacson book about him and listened to all the interviews for a week or two. The points of him that people have strong opinions about were almost immediately boring. Underneath was how hard it is for him to relate to and communicate with other people. You can have all the money in the world, but you can’t buy that, and it might be more unattainable with the more wealth and notoriety you obtain. That’s probably more human and universal than trying to go to Mars. 

His presence has always felt super visceral to the Bay Area. Even if he’s on the other side of the world warning the IMF about artificial intelligence and dog currency, the Tesla plant off the 880 in Fremont is a purposely monolithic reminder of his grand intentions. Its always been funny to me that the same governing body (Alameda County) that gives me reminders about parking tickets I didn’t pay, and taxes cans of Mountain Dew at the liquor store 100 feet from me, was preventing him from building a rocket to go to Mars during the pandemic. 

So whatever. I tried to write a bunch of stuff about him, but ended up writing about the same loneliness and lack of connection that everyone has experienced at some point in their lives. It’s the same loneliness that humanity might be leaning into as we go toward whatever the future is. I will release the songs that didn’t get used for this record on some Bandcamp Friday. They are mostly rewrites of “Little Deuce Coup” but with lyrics about electric cars and Eugenics. 

The cover art was drawn by Michael Rudolph. It’s a still from a video I saw of a lady hitting 10-G’s in an airplane. The topic of “freedom of speech” kept coming up in everything I read and listened to. The idea itself is intangible, but people talk about it like it has a clear structure and regulations. Like a mathematical theorem. Or a public pool. 

It reminded me of someone experiencing the punishing levels of gravity in a centrifuge. I kept thinking of some guy thumbing away on a cell phone behind protective glass, as a bookish engineer screams “Sir! He’s about to call The Pope a b*tch on Twitter!” Cut to some high ranking military official that looks like Sterling Hayden in “Dr. Strangelove” losing grip of the cigar in his mouth and muttering “oh my god…” 

That is the first time I’ve seen all of that written out, and I regret everything. I regret this entire record. 

Thanks for listening. 

Raj played drums. 
Ryan played stuff. 
Joel Robinow played piano on the second song.
Patrick Brown mastered it. 
Michael Rudolph drew the cover art. 

AI versions of Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Williams Jr., Serena Williams, William F. Buckley, Will Smith, William Gibson, SpongeBob SquarePants, Elon Musk, Sonic the Hedgehog, Albert Einstein, Nina Hagen, Donald Fagen, John Wayne, Wayne Knight, Mickey Mouse, Donald Rumsfeld, Bart Simpson, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Hulk Hogan, Richard Nixon, Willie Dixon, Angela Merkel, Studs Terkel, Hatsune Miku, Shakira, 21 Savage, and Macho Man Randy Savage played singing on the last song.

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