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1. |
Misinformed
03:21
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MISINFORMED
I don't know why I don't know why
I don't know why I don't know why, I'm so misinformed
I am not sure why I am so misinformed
I don't know why I don't know why
Had a dream, held it proud
I am not sure why I am so misinformed
I don't know why I don't know why
Still believe, and dream aloud
I am not sure why I am so misinformed
COUNT ME OUT, COUNT ME IN
ONE TWO THREE FOUR I LIKE GIN
COUNT THE DAYS, COUNT THE BALLOTS
COUNT THE WAYS AND MEANS TO ENDS
I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE SAVING
WHEN WE SAY "FOR A RAINY DAY"
I'd rather be a fool who loves
Than a genius who don't
And I don't know why
I'm so misinformed
Hard as I do try
I'm so misinformed
STOP THE PRESSES, MAKE SOME COFFEE
WAIT A MINUTE, THERE'S NO PRESSES
IT'S NOT PRESSING, COFFEE'S READY,
USED THE FRENCH PRESS, FREEDOM FRIES
IT ALL MAKES SENSE, IT'S IMPORTANT,
I READ IT ON A THING SOMEWHERE
I don't know why I don't know why
I don't know why I don't know why
I don't know why I don't know why
Rather be a fool who loves
I don't know why I don't know why
Than a genius who don't
I am not sure why I am so misinformed
I don't know why I don't know why
© 2022 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music
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CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT
Content
Monetize
Content
Monetize
Must monetize
Content, content, content
Just a minute
Wait a minute
You’ll have to wait your turn
I’m in here
Splattered, cleanup, call the help
Emergency
Bot-generated instant content
A.I. composer
Bots clicking on the content
To make it look like someone’s listening
Content, content, content
Hoomans trying to keep the bots at bay
Advertisers wanting blood because you sold them fake eyeballs
In the content we monetize
Eat the content
In content we trust
In this golden land
The streets are paved with content
Hey Beverly, let’s go get some content
OK!
Mommy! My content isn’t working
Don’t worry dear
You just need to optimize it and make some relevant keyword buys
Purchase, purchase
Optimize, optimize
My spleen is eating my heart in the hole where my soul was
I love content
Content is the best
Junior, what do you want to be?
I’m gonna be an influencer
Or a content creator!
That’s wonderful
Thank goodness
We can never have enough content
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3. |
1983
02:51
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1983
It's still 1983 to me
I'm the same as I was at 18
Here is where I wanna be, don't think that I'll ever leave
It's still 1983 to me
It's always 1983 at our house
Time is frozen, so deliciously
Never going one more year, Orwell said there might be trouble
Always 1983 to me
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
Hey hey hey I do believe it's 1983
La la la la la
Na na na na na na
I live in 1983
Oh let's start a band in 1983
Ya never know, we just might get lucky
Sun sets on the Golden Gate, and scooter rides are on The Quake
And all I want is Juliet in black jeans
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
Hey hey hey I do believe in 1983
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
Hey hey hey I do believe it's 1983
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
Oh yeah it's 1983
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
La la la la la la
Na na na na na na
1983
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4. |
The Cow Song
02:27
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THE COW SONG
Everyone always says that cows are stupid
Eat grass in the valley all day there, lookin’ stupid
They’re really only good for one thing
We all know just why they’re here
But I still don’t understand
Cos everyone knows his soul is bound for heaven
And everyone knows his rump will soon be roasted
But nobody knows why they said that the cow was stupid
Stupid cow, if you’re a stupid cow
You’re not half as stupid as me
Someday, maybe your luck might turn around
Everyone always says that the sheep will follow
And everyone knows the wolves won’t stop to think, (or even blink)
But nobody knows why they said that the sheep would follow
Blind sheep, if you’re a blind sheep
You’re not half as blind as me
Someday, maybe your luck might turn around
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LAWS AND SAUSAGE
The fat cats are lining up to partay with the pig dogs
Lining up their shots and all their jaws keep flapping
Pinkie rings tappin' down in Wall Street
Indecencies they wreak on a bed sheet
Spreadsheets covered in meat
Laws and sausage, watching them make laws and sausage, watchin’ them make
Laws and sausage, laws and sausage, laws and sausage, watchin’ them make
The fat heads, are shooting off the mouth again and
Air heads, are running up the tab
Got a new pea shooter for ten million dollars
And a squeeze cheese launcher for riot control
Laws and sausage, watching them make laws and sausage, watchin’ them make
Laws and sausage, laws and sausage, laws and sausage, watchin’ them make make
Mmm, feelin' real hungry now
(Well I never)
For starters tonight we have the
Sweet Haggis Pudding Surprise
Goose Spleen Pate with Bacon Bits
Mad Cow
Splattered Lamb (what?) in Head Cheese Bowl (that's it!)
Alas it’s rude, last gas and food, don’t want no friction
Can’t get bliss in this unhappy gristle addiction
The fictions they proffer, the coffers they line
We say eat the rich while on our legs they dine
By the numbers, like cattle grazing man
Laws and sausage, turn forests into sand
Man I lost my Falafel all over their plans
Laws and sausage, watching them make laws and sausage, watchin’ them make
Laws and sausage, laws and sausage, laws and sausage, watchin’ them make
I need a lozenge
Aneurism
Botchitalism
Plague
Late stage ratfinkalism
So if you like sausage
Sheeple Broth?
Best not go down to the factory
Soylent Green? (ew)
Best not peek round the back door
(nope, nope, nopity nopers)
And if you like laws
Best not watch them being made
Pass me the bucket
I second the motion
The resolution is passed
What's for dessert?
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BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY I LOVE YOU
In 1970 they said it's gettin' hot
And we should ride our bikes and burning fossils we should stop
Exxon Mobile said it's a liberal hoax
Global warming was the butt of all their jokes
All these improvements are making matters worse
(Are you so sure?)
Upgraded my system, and now it doesn't work
(Press revert)
If this is winning, then I'd prefer to lose
If they say march and fight then I will eat my boots
Cos baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby I love you
The sky is falling, alerts are comin' fast
There's no water pressure and you cannot find some gas
We must evacuate but there's nowhere to go
747 dumpin' red upon the glow
The roads are jammed but we gotta move
Can't stay here, well, we can't go there
Grab important papers, pictures of the fam
(Pictures of gram)
Keys and wallets phone and we just gotta scram
Cos baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby I love you
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7. |
Island Life
03:38
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ISLAND LIFE
I’ve been workin' late on Friday night
And I'm goin' in on Caturday
I’ve been thinkin' bout the island light
As another summer peels away
Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin’
To where the horizon shoulda been
Touch, but I can’t be certain,
Where it all ends I start again,
Let’s blow it off
I wanna get away
I wanna hear some music
I wanna hear ya sing
All the world’s an island, life is free
Half a million friends, but I’m lonely
As the glaciers fall and raise the sea
Won’t you save some island life for me?
Why can’t we all just live in peace?
Sometimes I break down in the morning and cry
Scream out in the night
Only to realize
There’s nothing in the world we can’t do
Anything we set our minds to
Maybe someday I won’t always be alone
Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin'
Right over the silver lining
South, to the blue shining
A postcard sent home to mom
All the world’s an island, life is free
Every day looks still more crazy
Greta sailed the wide and open sea
For to save some island life for she
For we
Turn up the youth
Speaking the truth
OK Boomer, Generation X
Turn up the elders in the mix
Everything louder than everything else
OK fine, Generation why
Turn up the youth
Turn up the youth
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8. |
My Friends Are Giants
03:13
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MY FRIENDS ARE GIANTS
My friends are giants
Many of them can fly
My friends do science
Many of them can fly
And they fly
My friends are giants
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9. |
No More War
02:22
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NO MORE WAR
I'm sick of all this war
I'm tired of all this war
We don't need no more war
We don't need no more war
We're sick of all this war
We don't want no more war
It's dinner time, call the kids
Give 'em a new teddy bear
We don't want no more war
Plant a garden on the roof
And go out skating in the square
We don't want no more war
Don't want no more war
One more time, say it again
It ain't no good for anything
We don't want no more war
Don't want no more war
So many better things to do and
We don't want no more war
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10. |
Bond Meets The Godfather
03:20
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BOND MEETS THE GODFATHER
Top secret plans
On a strictly strictly need-to-know basis
Going on the lam
And covering all the bases
Bond meets the Godfather
So what did they expect?
With all of the shenanigans
We like a well-pressed suit
Got a commitment to the truth
Dropping in unannounced
Cos sometimes that's how we roll
Ya don't know the agenda
Cos we're tryin' to find a mole
Gonna flush him out when
Bond meets the Godfather
Bang bang shoot 'em up
You know how we like it
Shaken not stirred
The law of Omertà says don't say a word
Shhh
I smell a rat
What will we do about that?
When Bond meets the Godfather
You know how we travel
Ejector seat
Flee the casino
Corrupt on the beat
Judges in pocket
In their master plan
High on the mountain
The rockets go blam
They cannot stop it
Cos we have joined forces
Notice my chauffeur has a horses head
And listen what he said
Bond meets the Godfather
Bond meets the Godfather
Bond meets the Godfather
Bond meets the don
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11. |
I Quit (Gone Fishen)
02:46
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I QUIT (GONE FISHEN)
Back in the days of answering the phone
There were things that people did and stuff
Now when it rings I chuck it in my bag
I do not need whatever they might have
Who can it be, I do not give a damn
Let's crush our sim cards and go on the lam
I'll leave a sign in crayon, on the clubhouse door
Bye bye
Gone fishen
Ciao!
Gone fishen
Tschuess denn
Gone fishen
Fare thee well
Gone fishen
I quit the old apartment and I quit my worryin'
Quit all of my quittin' and I quit it all again
I quit my quittin' help group that I never really joined
I quit and split and did it with the kit that we purloined
Some fake friends who were not nice to me
I quit them, for I am fond of me
Don't miss them, it is no mystery
Gone fishen, gone fishen, gone fishen
Back in the days of answering the phone
It used to worry me, it used to vex me
Exasperated, wrestling for control
I don't miss it, gone fishen
Now when it rattles I heave it into a volcano
I do not heed whatever they might explaino
Report it in as misleading or scam
Delete the spambots and the phony jams
We'll leave a note in lemon juice on the clubhouse door
Bye bye
Gone fishen
Ciao bella
Gone fishen
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I'M SO TERRIBLY STONED
I suppose I could put the lyrics here. It sounds like a bit of work. First let's have a snack. Maybe watch a movie. What were we talking about?
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13. |
Pogo Dancing In My Sleep
02:44
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POGO DANCING IN MY SLEEP
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Hey grandpa, what's Pogo dancing?
Well son, it's like Slam dancing, only different
Before they did The Thrash, they did The Pogo
And now that I can't do The Pogo
It happens sometimes when I'm sleepwalking
And when I wake up in the morning
Everything is destroyed
That's why I'm
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Because I'm
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Come on, Pogo dance in your sleep
Everybody Pogo dance in your sleep
Pogo dancing in my sleep
It's OK Methusda
Everything going on here is perfectly normal
Ho hum, hmm, tedium
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Wow, the bedsheets
They've fallen off
I must have been
Pogo dancing in my sleep
It was decreed in days of old
There will be NO STAGE DIVING in the Olden Folks Home
Johnny was a rebel
He's going to the devil
There's a two-drink minimum in Hell
Nobody cares about your goddamn website
Hell
Johnny was a rebel
He's going to the devil
Waking up from afternoon naps is weirder during times of mounting catastrophic societal failure
Oh say can you double cheese-fat encephalitis
Back when there were laws
We used to break them
Nothing you say is private,
But it's OK because everybody is going to die
What the hell was I thinking?
Pogo dancing in my sleep
Pogo dancing in my sleep
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14. |
People I May Dub
03:25
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PEOPLE I MAY KNOW
WTF, OMG, LOL, FOMO, whoa oh
On a perfectly fine midsummer morning
Hiding in the woods as society collapses
Minding my own rot
Looking at the ads
For things I already bought
Oh my
And lions and tigers and bots
And Toto
I don’t think we’re in America anymore
I would like to be the first to welcome
Our new green gelatinous tentacled overlords
Did I tell you I speak Russian?
Maybe I can help
Hey, I heard the earth is flat
I changed my name to Chad
Scrutinize and edit all my ALL CAPS raging
Leave me alone, please love me,
Send me kittycats
From FaceVerboten purgatory
My name is mud
Out of sight, out of my mind
Staying focused on the daily gristle
Dream of a luxurious recreational space missile
When I see your face
Grace
The feed lot backlit, and I am split
WTF OMG LOL, FOMO
Now that you are one of the people I may know
Whoa, oh
AMA IDK SMH ILY STFU
Leave me alone, please love me
Send me kittycats from verboten purgatory
My name is mud
Out of sight, out of my mind
I stay focused on the daily gristle
WTF OMG LOL
Now that you are one of
The people I may know
Whoa, oh
The people I may know
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Eric Din Berkeley, California
I'm a guitarist and singer-songwriter with The Uptones. These are my solo recordings, starting from 2015. I started Berkeley Cat Records in 2019. BandCamp is the first place I publish these puppies, before I send them into the streaming wilds. Wait, you ask, Berkeley Cat Records has puppies? Why yes, Matilda. Thanks for popping in, hope you enjoy the tunes! ... more
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