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Everything's Mostly Nothing

by S.A. Bach

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1.
Sideshow 03:07
can't quite get happy on my own can't seem to stay quite sad enough to change though my life ain't gained nothin by the sideshow now i can feel my life becoming the sideshow i never seem to say shit in real life it's always already lost in my mind so just gimme something for the sideshow so leave me with an image, for the backdrop of the sideshow the truth ain't no weapon for a sword swallower the truth is an obstacle behind the funhouse doors still i refuse to put fake nails up my nose although a real good life forsaken makes for a sorry, second-rate sideshow so why you ask am i still here after all? why am i all curled up in this ball? well i'm only here when you're watching the sideshow i'll stay as long as you keep coming back to the sideshow
2.
Cover 02:56
I got a song - I'll take this one I feel my number coming up Once it's done, I hope you'll have a listen I'll play it live and in person One at a time, strange days float by I'm not all here, and I don't know why I'm a few pennies shy, standing off to the side Since you turned up on my mind I went outta town, I come back around Ready to be let down The story gets retold. My shoulder comes pre-froze, Standing by for when my cover gets blown Okay so I know I'm clumsy & slow driving my point home But there's so much I just can't know I could swear there's something there But to say just what I don't dare I'm unwaveringly unprepared I went outta town, I come back around Ready to be let down The story gets retold. My shoulder comes pre-froze, Standing by for when my cover gets blown
3.
Slower 02:32
i'm gracefully bowing out respectfully, your boy scout who do you think you are? you're not a little girl no more we couldn't take it slower but we could shift into reverse we can't undo the damage but can't we stop making it worse? just when i'd quit holding out you found me mangled under my doubt what did you think you'd find inside a puffed-up heart like mine? we'll take it slow as you wanna the driver's seat's all yours cause honey you know i'm never gonna be the one to speak first cause i'm a slave to the rhythm subservient to the song that one that's yet to be written how it strings me along
4.
5 Fears 02:31
i'm afraid i'm really strange did i start out this way? or have i really turned out this way? here's hoping it's too soon to say i'm afraid i'm really shy it's so hard to look you in the eye you know, i've never known why but i guess it's not too late to try i'm afraid i'm really gone if this life doesn't always go on how can any of us really be here now? how can an existence run out? i'm afraid i'm really dead or else i'm some other thing instead something you'll never hear or see some sort of elaborate dream machine i'm afraid i don't know who who you refer to as "you" who i refer to as "i" everything's mostly nothing inside
5.
Other Woman 01:58
you will always be the other woman, baby i wall always be the other man i know i told you that i couldn't wait any longer but we both know full well i can i'll show up at your door when you can't take him no more (assuming carol hasn't taken me back) in the time it takes to drive i'm sure you'll find another guy or he'll come sweep you off your feet while i'm unpacking throw me a wink as i start to cry pat me on the ass and whisper "better luck next time" but you will always be the other woman, baby i will always be the other man and that's something i can learn to live with maybe but i know i'll never understand how you change boyfriends like socks and i keep changing the locks i'm sure you'd want me if she finally took me back in the time it took to leave i'm sure you'd lose interest in me and send me back here on my knees trying to act like nothing happened you'll always be the other woman i'll always be the other man
6.
SGV 04:09
sgv you're dead to me my days are numbered in the valley san gabriel valley sgv it's not you it's me i've disgraced myself & the valley san gabriel ayuda me "s" is for………. (guess i haven't like a girl whose name started with "s" yet but i can't afford to start now, oh no) "g" isn't a common first letter for a girl's name, no it ain't and as for "v," well i'm drawing a blank but anyway sgv you're dead to me my days are numbered in the valley san gabriel valley san gabriel valley
7.
2Sad4Me 01:21
too sad for me well honey, i concede, you're too sad for me and the only way i'll get unhappy is if you won't go out with me in which case you'd no longer be too sad for me and we'd both have to laugh at the irony and then we'd be the next best thing to happy reveling in the absurdity
8.
it's just like riding a bike hating something i used to like inverting my smile watch me coast on down in style my heart is just like my bike it's a sight that makes for sore eyes rusty & coated with grime and i know it ain't worth a dime living's just like fixing my bike i don't know how so i won't even try it's just propped up outside waiting to be stolen one of these nights
9.
Another Hit 02:14
it's gonna get better before it gets worse had a real nice time got drunk out of my mind now it's the afternoon after i got a little pre-hangover i think a drink or two would steady me got a long drive ahead of me half as much a blessing as it is a curse talk about feeding hunger with a thirst the bottle may be my last love sure wasn't my first but it's gonna get better before it gets worse and then it's gonna get worse and then it's gonna get worse and then it's gonna get worse and then it's gonna get worse you pay me in unconsciousness you expect me to perform like this you're trying to keep me off my guard i guess but i'm not about to not get paid for this i'm working hard, i'm gon' get paid for it i'm pouring good years down the drain for it now i've become a junkie craving the shit i only wrote this for another hit i only wrote this for another hit i only wrote this for another hit i only wrote this for another hit it's another hit, it's another hit
10.
Precipice 03:34
i'm not an idiot, i know it when i see it have you figured it out? i'm no amateur, i'm not some part-time lover am i wearing you down? i'm not going anywhere; no way to know what's out there but i know what i've already found is this the precipice? are these the final moments before our old lives come crashing down? are you up for a new love anymore? are you framing this all innocent? could you look again, let my desire settle in? isn't now the time? isn't now on your mind? isn't now in your heart? is this the precipice? is this the falling action? isn't our life's work feeding our hearts? am i even up for real love anymore? have i framed this all too innocent? can i try again? are you up for a new love anymore? are you framing this all innocent? could you look again? would you look again, let my desire settle in? i'm not an idiot, i know it when i see it have you figured it out?
11.
Not Free 06:55
i'm all i wanna be, content that i'm not free i'd just love to hear you knocking at my door this summer eve there's nothing i can do, for nothing can be done while everything is happening; this machine always hums the figments of desire i'd mummefied & packed i left you crying in your bed to toss those curtains back but much to my chagrin, state that i was in, the undead wouldn't give me play, nor even let me wrap 'em back up again so i went on the prowl to find a new gal pal i glimpsed her freak flag flyin', i took aim and took her down i was happy for a week, intermittently then she flew home to vegas, and all she left me was an s.t.d. so i took a trip out east, where the food and flesh are cheap i thought about you often, told myself it was the heat me and the lady from montreal had a great night in hong kong but my mind was so incessant, it's just like i wasn't there at all came home and met the santa ana girl, i was almost woman enough for her but we drank so much alcohol, it's all sort of a blur i'm sure it made sense at the time, whatever went on in my mind but i can't help wishing i could take back everything i said and re-make you mine still i'm all i wanna be, content that i'm not free i'd just love to hear you knocking at my door this summer eve there's nothing i can do, for nothing can be done while everything is happening; this machine always hums
12.
ashley never let me take her picture now she's left me here to learn to see her clearer in the absence of the everyday reminder which only seemed to serve to make me ever blinder ashley never let me take her picture now she's lost, so i must learn to love her truer having dredged up every fear my mind could conjure i find my faint flickering faith to be that much stronger ashley never let me take her picture

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music & lyrics by Sebastian Abraham Bach
published by Straight Pathos (ASCAP)

cover art by Darryl Blood (www.darrylblood.com)

thank you Steve Bach, Art Paz, Darryl Blood, Ryder Bach

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released February 16, 2016

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S.A. Bach Springfield, Missouri

ever-bewildered anti-folkie from LA-via-Branson-via-LA. singer-guitarist-songwriter w/Oh Yeah, the Future (comma is part of the name), The Middle Initials, Star Maps & The Bachs. my name is trademarked :(

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