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This one is about feeling useless.
Like you can't do anything to change anything.
It's about feeling inadequate in an overwhelming world.

lyrics

Yo, I know nobody can save me.
It's the same fight all of us are facing.
I know nobody can save me.
But recently a piece of me's been feelin crazy.

Where's the line between
genius and maniac?
Some don't ever make it back.
Just burn out,
fade to black.
They say adapt,
but this habitats unlivable.
I just wanna be original.
Carve my past in the digital.
But the news
it likes to lie to me
so slow and violently.
Which kinda makes me wanna burn
down banks for notoriety.
Day to day escapist.
Most these moments are idle.
Hate to say it,
every song I've writtens
about death or survival.
Some might say I'm a useless kid
or a lunatic,(shit)
if you insist,
but I just know the truth is sick.
It's the only thing that they can't say.
We know these structures can't stay
if all of them are man-made.

(Chorus)
Can someone tell me
why I'm unhealthy?
Why the poor always
gotta die for the wealthy?
Can someone sell me
somethin to save me?
Followin my dreams
but knowin they'll never break free.
Try to plan stuff,
to end up bankrupt.
They say put your hands up
and you end up in handcuffs.
In a world where no one buys music
who'd choose this?
In my little cage no living wage
feelin useless.
Broke, alone,
I just need a ride home.
Don't wanna go anywhere that I've known.
All these roads are haggard
and filled with potholes.
Take me somewhere far from here
with less lost souls.

I used to think all my heroes were infallible.
All powerful, insurmountable,
my words were doubtable.
I thought what others thought
was relevant.
I use to think a rhyme scheme mattered.
My dreams shattered
the day that I had awakened.
But it's been hard to sleep
with all these sadists adjacent.
I'm experiencing a losing streak
that isn't new to me.
A kinda class warfare
that the poor share exclusively.
We're hoodlums,
crooks, bums,
scum to the richest.
But it only takes minutes
to diminish a whole business.
I used to think I understood
how things work.
But I'm Icarus,
sick of shit,
with my wings burnt.

(Chorus)

Can anyone tell me
why I'm unhealthy?
Why the poor always
gotta die for the wealthy?
Can anyone sell me
somethin to save me?
Followin my dreams
but knowin they'll never break free.
How many people plan stuff
to end up bankrupt?
It's hard to put our hands up
when they put us in handcuffs.
In a world where no one buys music
who'd choose this?
In my little cage no living wage
feeling useless.
Tell me its all wonderful.
Tell me that your comfortable.
Convince me,
that this speech
could ever really change this history.

credits

from I've Been Meaning To Write The Meaning Of Life, released October 1, 2018
Lyrics by Happy Tooth.
Beat by Bum Theory.
Mixed by Ryan Liptak.
Mastered by Mark Abrams.

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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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