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A Place Full of Strangers

from The Laughter's Rehearsed by Happy Tooth

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lyrics

I often imagine Heaven
as a type of comfort.
So I can see old friends
and family if I'm not the
fastest runner.
Last the summer
and we'll see where it goes from here.
My sardonic hard logic
art faucet,
makes it unclear what to fear.
Bring me the head
of whoever said this was easy.
I think of the dead and if my
life story's worth reading.
If time is linear,
and birth and death's
just a signature.
One day I'll remerge,
an instant burst of
finished words
I meant at first.
Right in front of you
and newly undead.
Maybe from being unfed
and I'll say the things I left unsaid.
But it's been so long
and I'm a much different person.
Back in those days I was just a diversion.
A sunken perversion
of the thing I became.
I only say that now
because I think that I'm ashamed.
I don't know what the difference
is between good and evil.
Am I the sum of a whole?
Or the parts I couldn't equal?

I hope you recognize me,
nothing's really death-defying.
Come to think of it,
I'm not sure you ever liked me.

(Chorus)
Heaven's just a place
full of strangers.
Heaven's just a place
full of strangers.
Heaven's just a place
full of strangers.
And all the angels are
singing the same words.

We romanticize death.
Fantasize about sex.
Pantomime the theft.
amplify the threat
and canonize the rest.
Let's randomize the tests,
sanitize the flesh,
and analyze the depths
of how we can't decide
why we're depressed.

When I die
do I have to bring all
this baggage?
Or do all the bad people
forget that their fascists?
They brought an adage
to a sadness fight.
I'm burning bridges in
afterlives with what I
felt I had to write to last
the night in tragic times.

(Chorus)

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from The Laughter's Rehearsed, released May 31, 2021

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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