1. |
Use Your Money Confusion
02:35
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Way back when
Way back then
In a world less full
Of clutter and noise
Everything cost less
Way back then
Way back when
In a world less full
Of dollars and toys
Everything paid less
So let it be made plain
If everything cost less
And everything paid less
Then everything cost the same
The price didn’t change
The value didn’t change
Only the numbers changed
Only the price’s name
(At least that is how it is supposed to work
Wages had to go and stagnate and mess up my song
and many people’s lives
The right wing ain’t bread and roses
They use the illusion to starve the minimum wage
Come November, please end their reign)
Way back then
Way back when
We had small numbers

We didn’t need big numbers
Now everything costs more
And everything pays more
The price didn’t change
The value didn’t change
But the numbers multiplied
Maybe that says something
About what is not the same
In a world more full
Of clutter and noise
And dollars and toys
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2. |
Lighter Vice
02:29
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Some get high on abasement
Down in the basement
For all I know that’s nice
I don’t know what echelon you’re kvetchin’ on
Which story of purgatory
Which jerk circle of hell
But I do my time
Confined in the sub-sub-finished-basement-den
Of rated-PG lighter vice
PB cups in the parking lot
Feeling like a creep
Another boring orgy with myself
in the wallows of pleasure
32 vitamin gummies
And 3/4 of a box of cookies deep
Throw me down a pack of candy cigarettes
It’s “snack on ‘em if you got ‘em” down in the oubliette
But let me tell you
Now I’ve got myself together
Half pound of light deli turkey in the parking lot
Eaten with my hands
Spinach superfood salad with no dressing while I’m driving down Lincoln
Swerving to extinguish cigarette butts with my wheels
But you know what they say
Whether you crash on Lincoln Drive because of oral sex or because of a spinach superfood salad with no dressing, you’re just as quadriplegic either way
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3. |
Bikeshare Anthem
02:33
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I like to bike share a bike share a bike share a bike
Hope I don’t die on a bike on a bike on a bike
For 12 bucks a month I can walk up to any kiosk and roll away with wings
Bike rights sound right to me
Bike lanes are quite nifty
When I ride a bike I feel right i feel right i feel right
Hope I survive on a bike on a bike on a bike
“you get on the bike, then you put it back
You get on the bike, It’s so convenient, ack!” (that line is by Hattie)
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4. |
Great Music
01:49
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Great music is falling out of our pockets, rolling amidst branded
napkins and fast-food containers.
When the arcade claw crane drops down the uncovered drain, it never
comes up with that great music which is never heard again.
Great music becomes a currency of curios for deaf vermin in the sewers.
Great music is whistled by the tone deaf man who heard a tone deaf man
whistle the tune he heard from the tone deaf man who heard a tone deaf
man whistle the tune he heard from the tone deaf man who heard a tone
deaf man whistle the tune he heard from a tone deaf woman humming "Ode
to Joy".
Great music is played by a man drumming two bladed spatulas into the
makings of a cheese steak on the grill.
Great music is at least 4 hours long and requires exhaustive
explorations of melismatic iterations and invocations upon epithets
until the singer falls asleep.
Good music is at least 20 years old, great music is at least 20 years
into the future.
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5. |
Thaw and Rise
02:33
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To our descendants after the fall
To our descendants after the thaw
To our descendants after the rise
There’s something I want you to memorialize
More of us than ever before
Live better than the kings of old, in the lap of luxury untold
Our personal palaces low on intrigue / Relatively assassin-free
More options than we need or want / Maybe we’re sorry, probably not
So sculpt a statue of a phone
Sculpt a statue of a drone
Sculpt a statue of an app
No, I don’t know how to do that
You’ve already paid for what we reaped
I’m no good at apologizing
But I am good at saying thanks
So thanks for the bounty you won’t taste
It tasted pretty sweet
Though I wasn’t paying attention
I was reading the next tweet
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6. |
Grow and Serve
02:27
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The civilians you've slaughtered
In pursuit of dignity
The innocents you've trampled
While trying not to break your stride
The captives that you've tortured
With your fumbling rage
Permanent wounds inflicted
Trying to feel dignified
The offenses you commit
With your hyperdefensive reflex
The bile you spit
When you won't swallow your pride
If that doesn't weigh you down
It should really weigh you down
Are you grown up enough to live it down
And give it up
Give it up
Suck it up
Bite your lip and get over it
Let go of your ego, it's killing your family
Bite a stick, stop being a prick
You don't want to hear it
The least you can do is bear it
Get over yourself and serve
And smile while you serve
Grow and serve
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Eric Slick Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
While with previous solo records Palisades and Bullfighter Slick mined his subconscious for the moodier and more abstract side of the coin, Wiseacre is a technicolored exaltation. It reads like a novel, sequencing in chronological order the ups and downs of self-acceptance before fully committing to someone else. ... more
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