1. |
Will You be Our Manager?
03:35
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Will you be our manager?
I hope it's something that you'd like to do
Will you help us to find shows
and play something good?
And if you want
you can take 10% of the profits
Okay, maybe 15
I hope that you won't mind
If we occasionally fuck up
You know that it's hard to find
Somebody that never fucks up
And hopefully
you even find it a little bit endearing
Listen: mistake after mistake
but hey! The crowd's still cheering
Today was the very first time
I didn't drink a beer
When we came to this little room
to play these songs that we have here
And to be very honest with you
I think I'm feeling pretty good
And you know
that we can get kinda loud if we want to
I hope that's an asset
and not a curse
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2. |
Professor Crystal
04:37
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Ask the crystal professor
Which one he likes better
The blue or the green
And if he tells you
Which one to go for
Make sure you pick the opposite
'cause there's nothing more valuable
Than someone that you know is wrong
all the time
Keep the crystal, professor
You've earned it
Your wisdom has set me atop my parapet
Thanks, Profess'
For saying Yes
And letting me know
No
We love you
Professor
You're so valuable
But I wonder what it feels like
to have all these people come
to your tent in the forest
and ask you questions such as these
Knowing full well
You're a fool with a well
I wonder does it hurt?
Or do you appreciate your gift
Without necessarily knowing what it is?
I hope that you do
'cause you deserve every edge of love that you get
Deserve our undying respect
Professor Crystal
The crystal professor
I love you
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3. |
Don't Tell My Wife
04:27
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I know what your name is
I know know when you come to town
I've seen what's in your briefcase
At the train station
I slipped something inside
A tracking device
And so don't worry
I'm going to find you
You're in the bad part of town, you know
Is that where you go to be discrete?
I've seen you wash your feet with the beggars
Is that where you go to get pleasure?
But don't worry
I won't tell your wife
I won't tell your wife
about your other life
the one you wish you could live every day
I won't tell your wife
about your secret life
The one that you keep on pushing away
But there's a price
that you have to pay
Just a tiny tattoo
of my name
You can choose the place
You can even choose the day
But over what it says
I'm afraid you don't have a nay
You don't have a say baby
It has to be my name
And what's my name you ask
With trepidation in your eye
You hope it's not a long one
You hope that it's something
that'll fit behind your knee
My name is Me
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4. |
The Break In
05:45
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Who's that around the corner?
He doesn't have a face but he's got a name
Everybody does
It doesn't seem very obvious what his motivations are
What are they?
And that's scary you know
When you can't tell someone what to do
What was that noise?
It wasn't me
And it wasn't you
And if it wasn't either of us
Was it a what or a who?
Someone broke into the house last night
They hid in the living room
While we were sleeping they went to the kitchen to get knives
We don't deserve it but it's happening to
I'm more upset than you
When the knife cut us in two
The blade
went down the middle of our bed
and the room filled with red
Once we were living, now we're dead
There's nothing more to this life
It's like a cage that's been emptied
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5. |
Green Goblins
05:05
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I used to think I was nothing
without a green goblin to drink
Thought it would loosen my spirit
Turns out my spirit
was already loose enough
I didn't need that stuff
To get somewhere nice
If you really want to know
If you really wanna know
The only thing that I'd throw away
is that vice
Life is a straight line
It curves from time to time
Just as the chords in this song
Often right but sometimes wrong
And if you diverge from a path
you know you're supposed to be on
Doesn't take that long to get back
It helps if you know where you went off
Consult the map
Helps if you have a couple people on the sidelines
It's a real big help if
you've got somebody there by your side
to remind you
Life used to be good
Life is still good
Call me Robin Hood
'cause I take gold
Let's stop before we all get too old to know what we're saying
To forget everything that we used to believe in
and if you want
we can go to a place
I used to go when I was young
They shuttered it but you can still get in the back
Don't bring those green goblins along
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6. |
Time
05:43
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Trust the ring
The plastic one
from Woolworths
you bought when you were nine
Back when time was just a distant cousin
of your friend who you met at a wedding
that will never see again and you think
you can masturbate to the memory of them
But you discovered it's not
when you saw the spots
And not like the ones that embarrassed you
when you used to go to school
a new day
a new face
no one new for you to play with
These are spots on your character
These are spots that remind you of
the people that you used to meet
and you used to drag your feet
when you would go to the pub with them
you wouldn't want to make a friend
Now time's mocking you
and that's what it's supposed to do, fuckhead
Remember at school
That one naughty kid who used to break all the rules
That is your best friend now
And the closer you get to him
Remember
Don't forget to remember
Please remember
don't forget
Time
to lie down
Time
to do something nice for yourself
like clean your apartment
Go for a walk
or do something with friends
that you knew when you were at school
Friends who used to break all the rules
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7. |
Wishing Well
04:05
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Toast in the afternoon
Wishing well in your kitchen says
Are you gonna leave the house today
like you said?
Shut up wishing well
Just trying to eat
It's hard to feed myself well
You know I've got that stomach thing
You know I can't bring
myself to go to the doctor
I'm afraid of what he'll find
in my cavity
So I'll sit here with my toast and tea
Oh wishing well
I wish you wouldn't speak to me
And it's very kind of you
And I know you mean well
But it's about time to tell you
I'm moving out
I'm moving house
And wishing well
Well well well
I wish you well
I wish you well
And I hope the next one who lives here
Will listen to you
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8. |
Isabella
05:06
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Go back every day
and say You were right
You were right
I should never have thrown that fight
At the end of the bar
There's Skip
He sold me my car
He sold me my car
and I'm grateful to him
He gave me a very good price
He knows times are tight
The bartender's called Ricky Slim
I don't like him
He's got the stingiest pour in town
and he sure knows how to sink 'em down
But his wife is Isabella
Isabella
Oh Isabella
I never should have thrown that fight
I was wrong, you were right
Isabella
The other patrons are kinda boring but
There's a guy I just keep returning to
His name's Fishy Blue
He works down at the docks
He keeps his money in his tube sock
He tries to hide it but the move is so obvious
And he's so full of stories
Feel less lonely when I'm talking to him
Less lonely when we're together
We're not friends but we're not enemies
We're something else altogether
He's not exciting but he's not boring so
He's the closest thing I have to a brother
I know that's sad but
Listen to me man
I come here every day
just to see her
So you gotta find the small gifts
Oh Isabella
Leave that fella
Come away with me
I never should have thrown that fight
I was wrong and you were right
Leave Ricky Slim
Don't you know he doesn't love you
Don't you know he sees other girls on the sly
He's got the devil in his eye
Don't you know he's looking all around
Every day I see him
down by the bus stop
with a wink in his pocket and a little tip for good luck
Isabella
You were right and I was wrong
I should never have thrown that fight
It was the worst decision of my life
And I only made 500 bucks
and I spent it on that car
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9. |
Shepherds' Warning
03:33
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Red sky at night
Shepherds' delight
Red sky in the morning is
a shepherd's warning
and if you are a shepherd these days
You'll take all the help you can get
It's lonely out there on the hills
Without anyone to talk to
The friends of the trees
are unfortunately my enemies
Nobody believes me
But I swear a great big eagle
came up and took one of my sheep away
Man, nature is evil
Nature is something else
Nature is like the devil
And that's not all
There's an old man that just stares at me
He lives on his own in a shed
He's got 1 eye and about 3 teeth
Man he gives me the creeps
Sometimes I think that he is evil too
Man nature is evil
Don't believe me?
Ask the eagles
Man nature is evil
The sky is like blood and the sea is full of
Fish people
Man nature is evil
Don't believe me?
Just ask a few people
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10. |
I'm with the Band
04:39
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I once knew a guy
In fact I knew several guys
Who said they would do me a solid
That solid involved
Driving us around
Making us perform
in front of strangers who were bored
Some of them lied
In fact all of them lied
But one of them tried
Yeah one of them really tried for us
He thought that our music should be played on the bus
Anyway
Some of them will gyp you
Some of them will rip you
Some of them will chip in for everything
Some of them just wanna
use you as an excuse for a party
I find a helpful thing to do is
ask them if they like the Rolling Stones
If they say yes and go on about it for 10 minutes
Get the hell out of there
If you want
to be in famous rock band
You better know what you like
Don't strike at the first iron
that gets hot
hot in your hand
There'll be many others
And if your lucky they won't
be a man
who will take you for granted
and try and see you as his own thing
see you as a little pet
he can take out and rent
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11. |
Clown
05:18
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Happy
Look at the wig
I'm happy
I've finally forgiven them
for firing me
when I was most depressed
Now I wear my favourite wig
I go to every gig in town
dressed up as a clown
The others laugh at me
But now
that's what they ask of me
To make 'em laugh
Make 'em smile
Make 'em feel good for a while
Make 'em see
that the day is just like the night
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em smile
Make 'em forget for a while
that this life is happening
This life just won't stop happening
This big blue marble we call Earth just keeps on spinning
My big rubber shoes
go squeak squeak squeak in the mosh pit
Squeak squeak squeak
And my little red nose says
*Tig Notaro horn sound*
Even the band after the show
comes up and gives me a wink
I know what they think
They're glad to see the clown
Glad to see someone
trying for a change
They like it even though it's strange
to be given a smile
To be given a laugh
To be made to forget
the world is half and half
Oh it's half good, it's half bad
It's half happy and half sad
It's half depression
and it's half
expression of love
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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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