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Pogo Dancing In My Sleep

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An early Covid adventure, this happened one morning when inexplicably my bedsheets were on the floor with me in them. Not injured, merely puzzled, I pondered, had I been pogo dancing in my sleep? Recorded the vocal bits into my phone as I wandered through the woods, as one does, after pogo dancing in one's sleep. Then in the afternoon I created the music parts and arranged them with the voice parts and here's the result. The half-time-triplet-y feel on the initial rock n' roll guitar theme, shifting into straight time and back in odd ways, this was the mojoplasm that seemed to illustrate the half-awake dream state I experienced that morning, and indeed through the whole dystopian dream-like business of society shutting down and everyone socially distancing and all of these. Footnote - if someone starts a band called Mojoplasm, I won't be mad.

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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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from Content (Album), released August 1, 2023
Guitar, bass, vocals, drum machine poking, recording, mixing, production, wandering, babbling, toying, fidgeting, snarling, giggling and whatnot by Eric Din

© 2020 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

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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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