For humans and bats alike.


Lyrics:

Hear em squeakin
In your ceiling
You can love em, or hate em
Don't want em, we need em
Eatin bugs that carry bad disease

Don't nest in my chimney baby
Please get out of my home
I can build you a bat house outside
That way you and your bros are never alone

Little and brown
With shitty eyesight
Hide in the daytime
To get ready for night

Their nocturnal nature
Suits them just right
The sun goes down
And the little bats take flight

The people don't getcha
Always demonizing
Blame you for witches, vampires,
Devils, and even fucking covid-19

Don't you realize
Understand now, come on
Pay your respects to our leathery kings
Because one of these days
They might be all gone

Little and brown
With shitty eyesight
Echolocating prey
All through the night

Their nocturnal nature
Suits them just right
The moon comes out
As the little bats take flight

Bats, they boogie
Down, down
Bats, they boogie
Down

Bats, they boogie
Down, down
Bats, they boogie
Down

Bats, they boogie
Down, down
Bats, they boogie
Down

Bats, they boogie
Down, down
Bats, they boogie
Down

Little and brown
With shitty eyesight
Hide in the daytime
To get ready for night

Their nocturnal nature
Suits them just right
The sun goes down
And the little bats take flight

Bats

Rural Life is from the perspective of a boomer living in a small town, Mountain Dew and Cigarettes is from the perspective of a redneck living in the same town, stopping at the local gas station for supplies before he goes to work.


LYRICS


Rural Life:

It's 4 AM
My day's began
Gotta go to the barn
to feed the swine

Hope I have time
to get to town before 5
Need a pack of Eagle reds
and enriched white bread

I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

At the dollar store
10 minutes before
they turn on the lights
and unlock the door

Say hi to the guys
and their rural wives
Buying their produce
and their farming supplies

I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

Kids grow up and they all move away
But this right here is where I'm gonna stay
Things have changed, no they just ain't the same
Things were better way back in my day

Hard, hard work takes up most of my time
Dedicated to that rural grind
Wouldn't change a thing for a dime
Rural I live and rural I'll die

Because I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

Yeeyee

(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)


Mountain Dew and Cigarettes:

"I tried this one chili and it set my mouth on fire and I had to drink a two liter of Mountain Dew..."

Diesel in my truck
Enough to fill her up
Might be late to work
I don't give a fuck

Gonna step inside
And wait in the line
I don't mind if I'm
Running out of time

Maybe I'll get fired
Really, I couldn't care less
My day doesn't start until I get my
Mountain Dew and cigarettes

My wife divorced me
Wants to move away
I always hated
That bitch anyways

Nobody to tell me
How to live my life
Caffeine all day, and
Nicotine all night

Some days I feel so tired
Sometimes my life's a mess
I feel so much better when I get my
Mountain Dew and cigarettes

M-O-U-N
T-A-I-N
D-E-W
A-N-D
C-I-G-A-R
E-T-T-E-S
MOUNTAIN DEW
AND CIGARETTES

A sharp pain in my chest and
A dizziness in my head
Fifty years of bad habits caught up to me
And now I'm fucking dead

Mountain Dew
And cigarettes
Mountain Dew
And cigarettes

Mountain Dew
And cigarettes
Mountain Dew
And cigarettes

Mountain Dew And Cigarettes

Rural Life

Famously covered by Jason Aldean

Not-as-famously covered by Franklin Pike

Originally written by John Rich, Big Kenny, Rodney Clawson, and Bart Pursley

Minor adjustments to writing and composition by Shane Tallberg

Lyrics:

He gets up before the dawn
Packs a lunch and a thermos full of coffee
It's another day in the dusty haze
Those burnin' rays are wearing down his body

And diesel's worth the price of gold
It's the cheapest grain he's ever sold
But he's still holding on

He just takes the tractor another round
And pulls the plow across the ground
And sends up another prayer

He says, "Lord, I never complain, I never ask why
But please don't let my dream to run dry
Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky"

That hailstorm back in '17
Sure did take a toll on his family
But he stayed strong and carried on
Just like his dad and granddad did before him

On his knees, every night he prays
"Please let my crops and children grow"
'Cause that's all he's ever known

He just takes the tractor another round
And pulls the plow across the ground
And sends up another prayer

He says, "Lord, I never complain, I never ask why
But please don't let my dream run dry
Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky"

And he takes the tractor another round
Another round, another round
And he takes the tractor another round
Another round

He says, "I never complain, I never ask why
But please don't let my dreams run dry
Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky"

Amarillo Sky

Based on the 1911 book of the same name by Edith Wharton

Lyrics:

She’s feeling down
He’s feeling low
Meets her on the hillside when it starts to snow

She looks at him,
and the tree below
Climb aboard the sleigh
And hold each other close

Push off, deep breath
And down they go

Oooo oooo
Oooo oooo
Oh no
Ethan Frome
Didn’t know
How that would go

Time has passed 
inside their home
Long after the crash 
all those years ago

An endless cycle 
Of constant pain
Physical reminder
Of that winter day

Goodbye to the only love they’ve ever known

Oooo oooo
Oooo oooo
Oh no
Ethan Frome
Didn’t know
How that would go

Now they know, now they know
Crippled and on their own
Now they know, now they know
Love dies freezing in the cold

Now they know, now they know
Stranded and all alone
Now they know, now they know
Things are better left untold

Now they know, now they know
Crippled and on their own
Now they know, now they know
Love dies freezing in the cold

Now they know, now they know
Stranded and all alone
Now they know, now they know
Things are better left untold

Ethan Frome

But once spring comes
And ends the winter time
you and I 
will be just fine

Count the minutes, hours,
And days that I’ve been gone
I’m so sorry babe
I know it’s been way too long

Frostbite sets in
I’m sure you’re cold enough
Come a little closer babe
I’ll warm you back up

The storm dies down
When you come through
Because I, because I
I love you

You’re something special
No one else could do
That’s why, that’s why
I want you

The storm dies down
When you come through
Because I, because I
I love you

You’re something special
No one else could do
That’s why, that’s why
I want you

The storm dies down
When you come through
Because I, because I
I love you

You’re something special
No one else could do
That’s why, that’s why
I want you

Please
Hold my hand
While we still can
I think I see the light at the end

Please
Hold my hand
While we still can
I think I see the light at the end

Please
Hold my hand
While we still can
I think I see the light at the end

Ethan Frome

A song about living in the middle of nowhere.

It's 4 AM
My day's began
Gotta go to the barn
to feed the swine

Hope I have time
to get to town before 5
Need a pack of Eagle reds
and enriched white bread

I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

At the dollar store
10 minutes before
they turn on the lights
and unlock the door

Say hi to the guys
and their rural wives
Buying their produce
and their farming supplies

I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

Kids grow up and they all move away
But this right here is where I'm gonna stay
Things have changed, no they just ain't the same
Things were better way back in my day

Hard, hard work takes up most of my time
Dedicated to that rural grind
Wouldn't change a thing for a dime
Rural I live and rural I'll die

Because I oh I
I love my rural life
I oh I
I love my rural life

Yeeyee

(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)
(Rural life, r-rural life)

A song about a person who really likes Mountain Dew and cigarettes.

Lyrics:

"I tried this one chili and it set my mouth on fire and I had to drink a two liter of Mountain Dew..."

Diesel in my truck
Enough to fill her up
Might be late to work
I don't give a fuck

Gonna step inside
And wait in the line
I don't mind if I'm
Running out of time

Maybe I'll get fired
Really, I couldn't care less
My day doesn't start until I get my
Mountain Dew and cigarettes

My wife divorced me
Wants to move away
I always hated
That bitch anyways

Nobody to tell me
How to live my life
Caffeine all day, and
Nicotine all night

Some days I feel so tired
Sometimes my life's a mess
I feel so much better when I get my
Mountain Dew and cigarettes

M-O-U-N
T-A-I-N
D-E-W
A-N-D
C-I-G-A-R
E-T-T-E-S
MOUNTAIN DEW
AND CIGARETTES

A sharp pain in my chest and
A dizziness in my head
Fifty years of bad habits caught up to me
And now I'm fucking dead

Mountain Dew
And cigarettes
Mountain Dew
And cigarettes

Mountain Dew
And cigarettes
Mountain Dew
And cigarettes

Real life one man internet rock and roll band from middle of nowhere northwestern PA. 

No specific genre, this is just whatever I come up with.

I'm also in the electronic group ENYU with my brother, BLUE.

WESLEY COLLECTIVE 4 LIFE

Franklin Pike

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