Art Is Dead

from Done Suffering by Happy Tooth

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lyrics

Our pain doesn't have to be their entertainment.
My value and worth isn't based on their engagement.
I can't explain it so I know it's hard to understand.
I guess to put it simply like I'm drowning
but don't want your hand.
We wanna be distracted.
My distraction is triumph.
I'm battling myself trapped in the fact
you only die once.
It's who supplies us but we don't blame the supplier
we buy it up consume it
and don't ever say we're tired.
All on my own but I'm not here to settle scores.
Art is dead.
We're holding funerals for record stores.
Less is more.
A true recluse is never bored.
Lost inside a metaphor.
It feels like we're both losing separate wars.

And I'm talking to myself again.
One person's paradise.
Another's hell to end.
Go tell your friends that when I'm a skeleton
I'll finally be relevant and they can go sell my pens.
To the highest bidder
or a private sinner.
But the only time they write is when
their life is bitter.
I'm looking for a way to escape tragedy.
We write about the trauma.
We don't write about the happily.
People make me anxious.
I can feel my heartbeat.
It's all outta pocket
since streaming made the art free.
It's our dream but also partly a nightmare.
Like playing for fifteen people in Times Square.
And I'm there but I'm also really far away.
Will these records have effects?
I guess it's still too hard to say.
It helps to cry.
It ain't been the same since Ellie died.
And they can't tell me why all our pain is televised.
Aye

This whole time in my life has been unusual.
I've desperately been trying to make something beautiful.
You don't have to be in pain for this.
You don't even have to pay for this.
How many monthly listeners will I have when I die?
Is anybody listening?
Or did you all unsubscribe?

I'm happier here/
I'm happy you're here.

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from Done Suffering, released October 8, 2022

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Happy Tooth Columbus, Ohio

"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