1. |
1st Person
04:52
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What's a lie
but a truth that hasn't happened yet?
What's an animal
that's on its way to
being a pet?
What's a wall
but a roof on its side?
What's a house
but a door with something on the other side?
And what am I
and what are you
but a person
forced to become 2?
What is luck
but fame backwards?
And what's a fuck
but shame with an accent?
And what am I
and what are you
but 1 person
forced to become 2?
What's a lie
but a fact
that just doesn't know how to be true?
What's a present
but a mess with glue?
What am I
and what are you
but 1 person
forced to become 2?
What are we
but liquid cement
and how can you mean
everything you meant?
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2. |
A Monkey Could Do It
05:22
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If a monkey could do it
Why didn't a monkey do it?
If a monkey could do it
then a monkey better get to it
If a monkey could do it
Why aren't its little paws all over this machine?
If a monkey could do it
then how would we ever keep it clean
I wish a monkey would do it
so that I wouldn't have to
If a monkey did it
it would save me a second or 2
10 000 000 typewriters churning out
words for infinity
Yeah that's my idea of a good time
Oh come on
You know the monkeys did it already
Way before us man
When the earth was a wonderful forest
and not a garbage can
Monkeys come on!
Monkeys are the only ones
who are responsible
Monkeys are the only ones
They are criminals
If you trace back every little crime
Back down the lineage
to the beginning of time
There you'll find a monkey
with the knife in its hand
Yeah you'll find monkeys
They fucked up the land
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3. |
Bad at Being
02:00
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I'm bad
So bad at being
I can't hear what I'm singing
in my ears at all
I pissed on my own trousers
I pissed all over my fucking leg
I pissed directly onto my trousers
I don't know what to do about it
There you go
I guess I should grab a towel
and wipe myself down
I don't know if it would make a difference but
maybe I'd feel better about myself
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4. |
Dear Youngster
03:18
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Youngsters
Your hand upon her waist
Don't let it go to waste
Youngsters
That feeling in your face
Capillaries ablaze
Don't let it go to waste
That time is precious
Don't let it go
Put your head on her shoulder
and listen to her sighs
Don't think there's some other guy
waiting in the wings
To swoop her off her feet
To buy her iPhones and diamond rings
No no my youngster
You're quite enough
She's not thinking about
any of that stuff
No no my little youngster
Listen to me
She's going to dance with
you anytime you ask her to
as long as you've got that look in your eye
No one can resist a youngster with their whole
life ahead of them
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5. |
Promise Me
03:46
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Running after yourself
Disgusting
What you left behind
Discussing
your favourite architecture of the mind
Don't leave this place
Don't tell me anything
that might remind me of this place
Please promise me
we'll get out somehow
You handed me your diary
and showed me something you write on page 3
and I had to chuckle to myself
Yeah I had to laugh
You promised me we'd get out of here
In your mind you promised me we'd get out of here
but we're still here
No secrets anymore
You promised me you'd never lie to me
You made me feel clean
Told me it was all just a crazy dream
But it wasn't
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6. |
Nico Rose
03:24
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Nico rose
from the dead
to keep us on our toes
Smells like
the flower with the most
grit on him
wherever he goes
And I made a promise I couldn't keep
I told him I could do this every fucking week
Well I tried
but I don't have a deep enough reservoir inside
to keep on pulling out things
that someone might want to hear
To keep on saying things that make me feel
like I don't need a beer
Need to take something to gimme good cheer
And I'm sorry dear Nico
that I got slack
Sorry dear Nico
Couldn't take the crack of the whip
on my back
But cut me some slack
You know it's pretty hard
Even though I said it was easy about 26 times
You know it's pretty hard
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7. |
Scrollin' Over U
05:23
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I was at the back of the class
You used to sit 2 chairs away from me
And I remember the look on your face
as you passed me in the corridor
I wished it had been more
Your hair was cute as silk
You used to drink your little carton of milk
Every day at 4 o' clock I would wait for you
to unroll your sock
To see your ankle
It was the best ankle I'd ever seen
And I wanted to live in your dreams
I wanted you to scream my name
during the games we would play
outside on the concrete
in the middle of the day
That was my favourite part
That was Noah to my ark
And now many years down the line
I found you on Facebook
and now I spend my time
Scrolling
Scrolling over you
I scroll and I scroll and I scroll
till my fingertip turns blue
I'm scrolling to see what happened to you
What happened to you?
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8. |
Lucifer Lies
03:18
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Lucifer wins
every time he spreads his wings
It's a crime here on Earth but where he's from
it sounds like he's singing a love song
Lucifer cries
there's nothing on his face
but you can see it in his little beady eyes
He gave up trying to please
long ago
That's where we see him
Please believe him
When he says
Bad ideas have legs longer than good ones
Little Lucifer
passed away
On his gravestone
it used to say
There was a man here
but somebody used spray paint to change it
and now it says
Here lies Gayvid
What does that mean?
Some sort of in-joke
between 2 weed smoking teens
But they too passed on long ago
and I wonder what the stone says over their heads
If I had spray paint you can bet I would change it
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9. |
Peace
04:41
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Peace
will
come
when
all
hope is
gone
Fighting
never
changed the
weather
whether
or not
you believe
in god
Any
time you
forget
I'll remind you
Life is
a joke
told by the person
that loves you the most
Loving
Surfing
They're really
not that different
Trusting
the wave and
shifting
your weight
from 1 foot
to another
the left is the sister
the right is the brother
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Deftera Athens, Greece
A Weekly Music Diary.
Deftera is an improv project by Chris Scott and Giorgos Athanasiou. Every Monday evening we meet for 3
hours to express the week's feelings through improvised songs. We then select our favourites to release the following Monday.
Chris plays guitar and sings.
Giorgos plays the drums and sometimes guitar.
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