Some songs grow from the title down and so it is with “Sneaking Through the Universe.” 

The phrase popped into my head and sounded like something off a Utopia album, and off I went lyrically with a passel of double entendres and worn astrology jokes to paint some scenarios of two feckless space punks in a “hot rocket saucer.” 

If you had to hit up Google once or twice to make sense of things, well, I’ve done my job. 

It’s a lovely stomper and Pat did a masterful job weaving in and out the different sounds of my one bass.
lyrics

“Sneaking Through the Universe” 
(Kent) 

Shooting stars shoot past/ Comets comically blast/ by you and I/ where we hide/ parked on the dark side/ trying to avoid/ having to kiss Uranus/ to get around some hard asteroid/ God only knows/ how the the solar wind blows/ sometimes from bad to worse... 

Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe... 

Nothing can save us, babe/ We’re both a part of the astrolabe/ In size we trust/ We’re motes of dust/ but we’re still huge to us/ so why should we care?/ Gravity aint no laughing matter/ and antimatter aint nowhere/ Reticula Zeta/ see ya later/ unless we see you first 

Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ 

We straddle planets like Pilate balls/ Catch cosmic rays; get tan and all/ Just a slag and a tosser/ in a hot rocket saucer/ with four on the floor and no reverse 

Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe... 

Massive gears grind on/ Stars are born and—FLASH!—they’re gone/ Pulsars race/ mounds of Venus to chase/ to a tight crater hosting a dark monolith/ Nordics and Grays/ cut off on our way/ We won’t share the sky highways with/ Now they’re on screen viewin’:/ “The fuck you two doin’??”/ We answer tense and terse 

Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ 

To be or not to be/ sneaking through the universe/ To be or not to be/ sneaking through the universe/ 

Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/ Sneaking through the universe…/

credits

from Western Man from Back East, released August 27, 2017 
Produced, mixed and mastered by Pat Kearns 
3-string bass & vocals: Question Beggar 
Wavedrum by Question Beggar. 
Percussion loops by Pat Kearns

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Question Beggar is a one-man-band artist from the darkness on the edge of Fort Worth. Playing only a 3-string bass of considerable mutation, Question Beggar calls his sound Heavy Skiffle. Don't be fooled by all the sound you hear: excepting the percussion, you're hearing one bass with no overdubs. Putting aside the unique instrumentation, the songs are quite decent and shot through with a wicked wit entirely his own. 
Eschewing venues for now, Question Beggar performs live on YouTube and has releases video singles extensively.

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