"Last Song" "Manny" (lyrics)

These two songs were recorded during the time we did the Disc is Dead but we didn't put them on that EP so the lyrics aren't printed anywhere so here they are

LAST SONG
Tell all my friends I'm never drinking again
That is if there's anybody left to be tellin'
I was ostracized when I threw Tony's guitar outside
But you should've heard the shit I thought he was yellin'

Tell all my friends I'm never singing again
I always lose my voice and that's never gonna change
And everybody talks and I can't squeeze a word through these rocks
And I'm afraid I'll never comfortably find my range

No, you'll never catch me making those mistakes again
It was a beautiful show it was a hell of a weekend
Give me ten more like that and call it a lifetime

Tell all my friends I'm never playing in a band again
When everybody's busy, nothing sounds right live
And I get pretty sick of the six or seven songs we play real quick
And people acting like they're (we're) doing this to survive.

Give me that beer guitar and microphone.
Tell all my friends to get over here as fast as they can.


MANNY
Do you realize that your following rules that apply to
A culture founded on self definition and freedom of expression?
The changemakers who are dead and gone,
Though their legacies are livin' and their words speak on,
Wouldn't be so pleased if they knew that you weren't living true.

I'm ok now, I'm just a couple of sins away from hell
But I have myself a little time before they toll the bell
I got my time sand, I'm gonna mold it and sculpt it as nice I can
So I might not be so sad when it falls through my hands

Do you realize that when you automatically let somebody decide what's right,
Your setting yourself up for that inner fight?
If you see something you think's wrong,
And somebody is telling you to move along,
That's why you can't sleep at night and you're brimming with wrongs to right.
And songs to write.

49 51

Jared figured out how to get the password back! He said we were hacked but, I think he just forgot which word he originally chose to be our password. Anyway we're going to put lyrics on here and updates and I originally wanted to put this David Foster Wallace quote that inspired the title to 49 51 on here.

"But now realize that TV and popular film and most kinds of "low" art—which just means art whose primary aim is to make money—is lucrative precisely because it recognizes that audiences prefer 100 percent pleasure to the reality that tends to be 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent pain. Whereas "serious" art, which is not primarily about getting money out of you, is more apt to make you uncomfortable, or to force you to work hard to access its pleasures, the same way that in real life true pleasure is usually a by-product of hard work and discomfort."

I should point out that we don't necessarily subscribe to the idea that life is more painful than pleasurable, at least I don't on good days. The opinions expressed by the quotes on this blog are of those whom the band has read, and do not necessarily reflect the position or ideas of Yo Ticonderoga.


Jeff