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The Same Song

from A Mile Away by Happy Tooth

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When the car dies and we fall on hard times
I think about design and how ultimately this hearts mine.
Part time, that's how I'm living happily.
Come and take a stab at me, I'll dodge the slashes casually.
This whole performance, summed up to survival,
to build something enormous and kill all of our rivals.
Denial tends to lead to aggression.
We file away the lessons and still weep at the best end.
Cause nothing could ever be learned from history.
We're doomed to be consumed soon by the misery.
Sick of me? Well good, I am too.
I've done so much already, but what should a man do?
I ran through life just like my father did
and you can't do right if you take the wrong and bottle it.
Walk a bit and try to get your thoughts straight,
life is so monotonous and all we do is mock fate.
Stop, wait, before the past is known it's future.
Walking on the tracks, throwing one rock at two birds.
We're born to be our parents, swallowed by their darkness.
Born to leave and perish, followed by some carnage.
Smart kids are the ones who have some insight.
Who know how to get right,
and escape before they're stuck mid-life.
Around midnight, I start to get delirious,
I claim I built the pyramids and then became a lyricist.
Weariness from knowing, my father wrote the same songs,
with all of life's chains on, knowing that his aim's wrong.
Names gone, along with the body and heart.
Nothing we can leave can be as godly as art.

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from A Mile Away, released March 20, 2014

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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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