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Doldrum Demos (Phone Drafts)

by Sun Giants

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Dead Sheep 02:55
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I went to school and learned all about How the rich and the greedy will fuck you or buy you out. Now that I’ve learned, they say it’s my turn To play in their game and hope that my pride will remain Most of these days I feel time is moving fast And most of these days I fear the best of my life might have passed And all I see is nine to fives to stay alive Worker bee fly back to your hive And isn’t it great to have nice things? Buy all the stuff in the magazines? Make a lot of money and store it away But if you worship your savings, it gives you these cravings For more and more and more. So save yourself trouble and burn all your money away I owe my money to my school and the fools at the bank To taxes for prisons and tanks And in exchange, I’m told to be gracious To be calm and not tasteless Well, call me disgraceful Or my lifestyle wasteful I’ll make their edict a question and to their suggestion I’ll answer not me. Not me Not me. Not me Not me. Though so many say it and eventually betray it, I promise you this, Not me Not me Not me. Not me Not me. I’d rather be poor, Than sell half my life for a fee. So, not me
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Cure it with Religion It’ll make you feel at ease Cure it with Religion The good lord should appease your heart But I never could believe Oh no, I never could believe Heal yourself with virtue Let your pius heart lead you on Mend your wounds with morals They should give you everything you need to breathe But I never could believe Oh no, I never could believe Settle for a nine-to-five The reliable income will pay the bills Settle for a nine-to-five Your mom and pop will feel achieved And so should you. But I never could believe I tried, but I never could believe
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I got a call from my mother today She said, your Uncle Jack is fading away And all your cousins are flying east To Baltimore To Say Goodbye And soon my Uncle Jack will die I was so young when my mama's friend Miss Rosie passed away She made us cookies every Christmas Never did she ever miss one Till her dying day Well, diabetes took her leg And then took her smile away My sister's friend Jordan shot himself in the head When I was in Junior High He was the first peer I knew to die And everybody wondered why His youth and optimism couldn't save him Well, depression leaves some And takes others away Sarah Baisden died on the Mount Baker Highway On an ordinary day I didn't know her well She was my first girlfriend's sister Wonder what she'd be doing today And when I next see Katie Baisden I won't know what to say My old friend Zach's buddy Matt Kincaid Died on his way to Disneyland Zach said write a verse for Matt And how could I argue that The taking of a beautiful soul when it's beyond control Will make you question what it's about And fill your heart with doubt All the people I'll never say goodbye to Are sleeping in their graves tonight And someday, I will too And so will you And everyone you ever knew Nights I've stayed up Worrying about the unavoidable Weren't any more productive Than nights spent happy With my people and my guitar
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Met a man today, in an alleyway, giving all these different things away You want a book, he said, some music possibly; it’s free; no you don’t have to pay I found this stuff discarded, by a trash can disregarded But you never know what might change somebody’s day So I sit here, most won’t come near, because they lack a healthy dose of doubt or fear for all mankind inside this strange collapsing world That only thinks about today, and throws away Well ain’t that nice but they’ll think twice when this here trash infested world is thrown in front of them and they can’t look away The more we talked, the more his face turned darker shades of gray There are these days, he said When I get out of bed, I hope to god for death And not because I hate myself; I’m grateful for every breath But as the years go by, I don’t want to be alive Because just being here, a part of this, is poisoning my soul, And I want out of here, but more and more, there’s nowhere left to go I swear it didn’t used to be this bad The city didn’t used to seem so goddamn mad a few decades ago, But now you know, there’s hardly any further down to go. It was in that alleyway we stood when he asked me for the greater good, If you could do you think you would go end all of mankind And I said yes and no, the answer here is just so hard to find If we could change things now, you know, we might just save our lives And yeah, your soul destructive, mind corruptive, isn’t set in stone You can live with independent thoughts Don’t just live connecting dots Focus on tomorrow; start to notice what it means to be alive.
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Children make memories And then form history Children with opinions On abortion pills and drug induced thrills Obey your elders, one and all Although the order is tall Parents sing melodies Intertwined with morality Parents are worried For their sons and daughters, that they won't make it to the top Suffocate them with your ideology and dogma Although it might be wrong I hope you find a place to call your own I hope you find that everyone's completely the same And everyone's completely unique I hope that you never follow blindly along That you figure out right and wrong for yourself And I hope that you learn That no advice is beneath you And nobody is out to defeat you Grow strong but not so strong that you can't change: That's all I've ever had to say Teachers sell history And preachers sell the mystery Both are hungry for your mind But you'll find They're all a little insecure Because they're not quite sure Governors and senators Make dichotomy reality They'll give you their guidelines And they'll yell from the sidelines But they don't know me or know you It's true, they're fools Don't let them get in your head I hope you find a place to call your own I hope you find that everyone's completely the same And everyone's completely unique I hope that you never follow blindly along That you figure out right and wrong for yourself And I hope that you learn That no advice is beneath you And nobody is out to defeat you Grow strong but not so strong that you can't change: That's all I've ever had to say
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I was born the son of two young adults They were the same age then as I am now They didn't think it right to go and put me down So they put me on a list and they shipped me out of town It was later that year when my mom and dad Adopted me in '93 A perfect little baby for a fella and a lady To do with me as they would please So they filled my head with morals And amazing godly stories Shaped my little malleable mind. And as does everyone to everyone It's hard to tell what's yourself And what's everyone else Did I make up these rules of right and wrong? Or were they shoved in my head and repeated for so long? Don't get me wrong I believe in them, I'm needin' them It ain't right to kill But where do you draw the line? Soon I'll graduate from college And my head is full of knowledge It's a blessing and a curse I'll carry to the hearse This world's a sick, old system: a cyclical existence Work to make a living and live to make a killing Barely bold enough to say it, but money is a drug And it's FDA approved and it's citizen abused You take your first hit and brother, that's it Nickles and dimes and fees and fines It's all you ever think about: more, more, more If you're happy, you're rich If you're sad, then you're poor. They tell you from the very start That money can't buy happiness But do they for a second think that you can't see what's happening? Everybody's playing the game, it's a shame to me And I'm a part of it And I can't even argue why I know, I know That money isn't anything And I can't, I can't Work eight hours a day to live to work to live to work to live to work. I was only thirteen years old When I told a girl I loved her She responded in kind and I paid it no mind That it might have been too early But it never seems early when you're right in the middle of the thing And your dreams are completely in sync With a world that makes you think that There's nothing more real than love And it's a heavenly gift from above But now I'm twenty-two and a little more aware It's in what you never question That will give you more pain than you can bear. Toxic Disney movies making everything a fantasy And marriage expectations are bordering insanity Find another flawed human being and present them with a ring 'cause after just two years you'll promise That even as you change You'll still feel the same And you're to blame If you can't make it to the end. I've bought into so many things A moral compass, Bank account And wedding rings. And I know it's not fair, but I'm glad that I'm surrounded By my brothers that make me think Push my brain to the brink And pull it back like Jack, Zach, Mac, Dylan, Miles, Matt, Kirk They make my mind get up and work Overtime. And that's why I'm doing fine.

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This "album" is a collection of a Single-Shitty-Microphone Recordings: I recorded each song on my iPhone as I finished writing them, so the quality is just what you'd expect: maybe worse.
Who's to say?

But HEY!
Why not be kind and take it for what it is--
A Messy Tour of the Process of Writing a Record.

It's free.
(Of course).

-M. Smalls

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released April 26, 2015

All songs are written/performed by Michael Hoffer in Seattle, WA.

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Northwesterly folk tunes from the 206.

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