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"nice simple acoustic guitar picking w/ some lap steel, folky western, sublime, great lyrics, verging on masterpiece." -KZSU stanford

Notes From Underground
© 2003 m j m j r∞

The Pills she pops are a tricky mix
Fifteen minutes later everything just clicks
And she answers phones for some hypocrites
Where the meter ticks the police man gets his fix
Notes from Underground

The festival freaks will tell you what’s profound
But the details are as fuzzy as the second stage sound
And the word on the street is that it’s happenin underground
Between the artists and the deceivers so many lost just to be found
Cuz no one here is satisfied just to be around
Yeah, we want such shimmering status but we hunt it like a hound
Notes from Underground

And I helped pay for her therapist
Even the appointments that she missed
But I had to see her sane i could not resist
As we try to keep each other off the endangered species list
Cuz the news man he’s got deadlines so he only gets the gist
As the truth that has alluded us in the hall way is howled and hissed
Notes from Underground

And the carpet stains are as real as they get
And the sun shine slipping thru the shade wont even let you forget
and yr jacket’s full of holes from a dozen cigarettes
What was it you were rebelling from why do you feel such regret
Cuz half of us are wating for some one we’ve not yet met
And the rest of us build credit slipping deeper into debt
Notes from Underground

She asked why I always focus on the negative
I said “I know there’s good in all of us but it runs thru like a siv”
She said “Yr part the problem, with an attitude I can’t forgive?”
I said “Baby, I’m only an antenna, and everything is relative”
When we went our seperate ways the kiss I took she did not give
And I went off feeling broken ‘bout these lives we chose to live
Notes from Underground