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La Fin
04:51
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(Dug)
The general cloud of several sounds
you almost hear but can't put down
the hamster wheel
I ran aground
No I can't stand
to stand around so I lay here
My echo chamber's got a pop filter
and blankets up
I'm in here saying stuff
I really can't escape it much
I'm cold calling bloggers
I'm socially awkward
Rewrite the email seven times
Please profile my song words
Rescheduling our date again
Please do not make me say, "Ahem."
I realize warning you I'm trash
is not a license to be trash
But then, one day I'm gonna die
and I hear then the horn wins
But up until that point
it's all that holds me back from forfeit
It's time to take a moment to
remember that I'm running late
from what I advertise to be my freedom
in the form of an escape
Because it is, into the craft
As in a ship or like a raft
and if it breaks I bet I'll gasp
like I'm surprised or something
(Ryan Liptak)
(Chorus)
Patience makes my head hurt.
Tell me what's your time worth.
Life spent lead in circles.
I think it's time to end.
(Happy Tooth)
Wish there was a way out.
Tell me how to teleport.
When I wrote the pain down
the whole thing felt so self-absorbed.
Don't know what this hell is for.
I woke up again this morning.
Woke up and felt like mourning
more things I keep ignoring.
No one's gotten out alive.
We fixate on how we'll die.
Happens over and over and over
a thousand times.
I work a job to make money
to spend it on art.
To make art about hating my job
and having no money
left for bills or art.
Toxic prophet.
Startin moshpits with lost kids.
Cause when we feel alone
we all need someone to talk with.
I think that I've been here.
Our fates look identical.
All our walls are meant to fall.
And I wish it was preventable.
But if I stay distracted
I can frame the fragments
of all the folks I interacted and laughed with.
I don't know what to do today.
I just wanna recuperate.
If I choose to stay losing faith,
remind me what I used to say.
The future's made from new mistakes.
the music's played
to escape
us.
(Chorus)
(Dug/Happy Tooth)
Always in at least eight places at once
We keep falling asleep and the days turn to months
Greet catastrophe casually
Can't say that I'm glad to see you
but you might as well stay a while
Well I'd hate to smile and not really mean it.
Been forcing it recently,
cycle's repeated
Been feeling defeated.
This realization only really feeds it
Just cause you got demons
don't mean you're genius
It's not a big deal,
it's several small deals combined
Everything feels contrived.
Even if inside, wounds heal in time.
We feel alive only when we're
close to death or over-stressed.
So upset but won't confess
to being a broken mess just yet.
I still see at shows sometimes
old friends from high school
I shout you out because I'm sorry
this is the only time that I'll ever write you
I feel past my prime
Like I am a Raichu
But I've yet to get there,
when I get there
I'll invite you
There's songs I wanna die to.
Got a playlist for my funeral.
We're trying to write the right thing.
Same shit, different musical.
There's nothing I can do at all.
This dream's reoccurring.
In other words,
I've come to terms,
and don't need your reassuring.
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2. |
Always A Threat
03:14
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(THE SIGNS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE.
DISASTER IS IMMINENT.)
(Happy Tooth)
I've got friends who don't believe
in the future or their choices.
I know people that claim clairvoyance
from rare poisons.
Shared voices.
I've seen visions from another time.
There's a universe where everybody
wants to die and nothing's fine.
When I was a kid
I didn't understand anxiety.
I thought everyone felt the same
and so I fought it quietly.
Before I go to the store,
I think of nine car pile ups.
And when I open up the door
it's kinda hard to find the guts.
I'm just catastrophizing,
which is practiced lying.
I tell myself I'm actively dying.
When I'm actually smiling.
Another Saturday,
a masquerade of plastic frames.
I only came to visit cause tomorrow
you might pass away.
I wouldn't wanna see a party
I'm not part of.
Your head craves the hard stuff
regardless of what the heart wants.
And we're all made of stardust.
Eventually those stars collapse.
In my head we play the set,
but nobody starts to clap.
Everything could go wrong again.
The songs'll blend til we're no longer friends
and it's not pretend.
I'm promisin,
that nothin's even happened yet.
But until I laugh at it and catch my breath
I'll still practice death for lack of an active threat.
(Chorus)
It's all in your head.
There's always a threat.
(Dug)
It's already over again
Over and over again.
The worst thing that ever happened
Just like last time
And I'm still dead from that one
It's insurmountable.
Even without all the downward pull
From all the doubt but it's powerful
Still in a drought when it showers too
But anyway, how are you?
I'm just a coward who
is stuck in the past
the way I imagined it
Shame it ain't happened yet
But that doesn't mean that I can forget
or stand for it.
But I can project
the way that I do when it's bad
and I make it disastrous,
yeah that's the step,
no asterisks,
retract your bets
then it's back to bed; like, wait,
what's stopping me?
Besides the self-fulfilling prophecies
It's how I live my life so sloppily.
It's gotta be, the wrong in me
& everyone can tell
I saw it coming
but I did nothing.
I saw it coming
but I did nothing, I said
(Chorus)
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3. |
Good For You
02:04
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(Happy Tooth)
(Chorus)
Loose like a crooked tooth
that you shouldn't move.
Two pills you should consume.
Cause it's good for you.
Soon I just took a few.
I was lookin blue.
Due like the bill is too,
cause it's good for you.
(Dug)
Roll the dice
and take your own advice
Stay outta debt.
Forget about professionals
The skeptical's defense
from all the needed care
So be aware,
or better yet,
take as credible
the mess of views
you found up on the net
Yes
The coping strategy
for those that's lacking the insurance
Or cannot conserve to purchase care
As in nobody does, apparently
we're fine with that.
So why not try a healing crystal
in lieu of a spinal tap?
We know how that ends but
still we take the tape rewind it back
& yeah,
the rest is usually
investment opportunities
like human needs
The roots, the seeds,
the leaves and hey,
before you leave take everything
that isn't bolted down,
and bolt it down
It's good for you
(Chorus)
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4. |
Never (Give Up)
03:58
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(Happy Tooth)
Another night awake
I guess I'll never sleep at all.
Say it's meant to be
and what you do can be unspeakable.
And I don't need control.
That's just not who I am.
No man is an island,
but I'm stranded by the night stand.
Started this whole thing as
a way to escape myself.
Nowadays it's been a cage
to debate my hell.
If something bad happens
I'll say it's supposed to be,
Even if I brought it on myself
supposedly.
I never gave up,
but I gave in though.
Nonetheless,
it almost sorted out
this fuckin mess in some respects.
My shortcomings are forthcoming.
I'm only sure of something,
I wasn't born for nothing.
We weren't born for nothing.
But if it ends tonight.
That's how it's gotta go.
Even if I'm by myself
I know I'm not alone.
Fate's just a way to justify
a bunch of lies.
So I'll tell myself everything's fine
a hundred times,
and I'm fine.
(Ryan Liptak)
Afterglow,
but it hardly shows.
Is this the spark to set the blaze?
I suppose,
to never know,
couldn't be the worst of ways.
(Dug)
"You made it this far,"
I mutter under guitar
& get down with the get down
& get over myself
Or we could flip out,
a 180,
some day we
maybe will
But til then
doing the Mope
and feeling helpless don't help
Dance in the waterfall,
like dribbling a soccer ball
As in, I can't do either well,
but, hell, it's never stopped me before
The pieces seem to fit.
You'd see if you believed in it
But then what would I sing about
& think about for hours some more?
Shrug it off,
the shoulder weight
You feel you have to hold of late
If that was the solution
you would've seen
some kind of movement by now
Go head and clip my wings
That only makes it interesting
& as for all the misery
it's just one more thing I'm figuring out
& in the grand scheme
it's all a damn scheme
Until I get the people dancing,
I don't know what I came here to do
I do it anyway,
like every day,
and anyway
I tell myself most every day
I don't have to explain it to you
(Ryan Liptak)
Afterglow,
but it hardly shows.
Is this the spark to set the blaze?
I suppose,
to never know,
couldn't be the worst of ways.
The longest night can't last for days.
(Dug)
Leave behind
a monument
to all of it.
Acknowledgement
that it is what it is,
and therefore,
will be what it will be.
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5. |
The Last Song
03:41
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I'm just a tiny dying star in this universe.
Trying to find light inside the dark with my useless words.
Shoot the birds, and kill off all the wildlife.
Move the dirt for what it's worth,
and tell us we're gonna die tonight.
Lightning strikes, more often then you think it does.
If we got struck tonight, would anybody drink to us?
Or will we shrink to dust?
Leaving only ink to touch.
Always lost in thought...
Or we don't think enough.
There's too much ugly in my bloodstream.
It's either something lovely or unclean.
Now I can't tell if I want Heaven or Hell.
They poisoned our water and now they're selling the well.
Oh well.....
I'm a silent, dead key on a piano that's broken.
Anti-heroic unspoken poet no one will notice.
Hope's a thing with feathers.
And all of mine are plucked.
Float or sink forever it's better with eyes shut.
We can't see how minuscule we are.
A voice is pointless when it ridicules the stars.
Meaningless or meaningful,
There almost is no need to pull or push
if everyone's drowning, alarms are sounding,
and our hearts are pounding.
What if nothing is ever what it seems?
What if everyone is dead and we're all living in a dream?
This place is a science fiction novel written in second person,
by a guy who wasn't there that talked to a guy who observed it.
It takes too much concentration to have a conversation.
So shut the fuck up, or get stuck up in the constellations.
Conservation, has never been my strong point.
Out of gas, and out of road,
and into the wrong void.
What is the meaning of life?
Give me a reason to write.
A detrimental kiss from an existential devious knife.
If nothing matters and actions happen randomly,
let's agree we can't agree and go and start another family.
The meaning of life for me is being an artist.
Sleeping in garbage with unbelievable hardship.
But everything's fine this is exactly what I wanted.
If it wasn't well fuck it, I guess I've already done it.
Fate is a monster,
I'm always late to the concert.
Saying all the wrong words
and failing like clockwork.
I hate impostors,
but fear that I am one.
I'd like to conquer but it's clear I'm here and I can't run.
I wasted life trying to understand why I'm living it.
Another makeshift knife plunged into my skinny ribs.
Fate is a monster,
I'm always late to the concert.
Saying all the wrong words
and failing like clockwork.
I hate impostors,
but fear that I am one.
I'd like to conquer but it's clear I'm here and I can't run.
I wasted life trying to understand why I'm living it.
Another makeshift knife stuck in my significance.
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Happy Tooth & Dug Columbus, Ohio
Two emcees deliver poetically driven verses over progressive arrangements that reflect sweeping lyrical concepts. The six-
piece group is fronted by lyricists Happy Tooth and Dug and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Liptak. Their debut album is called W.H.Y.G.O.D.W.H.Y.
"Definitely something different in a sea of sames." -Ara Hawkins, Virago Magazine.
"Fuck Happy Tooth & Dug" - Father John Misty
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