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Scrapper

by S.A. Bach

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If we get interviewed in 30 years About what was happening here What will you tell 'em dear friend, And can we pretend it all already happened, We made it, and it all turned out swell? I think we might as well 'Cause we got lots of hours to fill So why not kill 'em softly Singing tales of the world we imagine, And in doing so, make it real? Just throwing it out there We could do something, make a mark Tell me, are you prepared To step into the light and out of the dark? Tell me, are you prepared To lose your favorite punching bag, To really put yourself out there, Take a blind leap and not look back? Deliberately isolated Croaking out your desperate cumbaya You're the only obstacle Between yourself and everything you want Everything you want Everything you want Everything you want Did we believe the hype, the old cliche That good art only flowers from pain, That our music can't age with us, That we have to play these characters forever? Are we really that insane? Come on dude, us your brain Life before art, never the other way, I say They've been locked in a cold war for so long I think it's time we dropped the bomb And let the chips fall where they may Just throwing it out there We could do something, make a mark Tell me, are you prepared To step into the light and out of the dark? Tell me, are you prepared To lose your favorite punching bag, To really put yourself out there, Take a blind leap and not look back? Deliberately isolated Still croaking out my desperate cumbaya Am I the only obsstacle Between myself and everything I want? Everything I want Everything I want Everything I want Everything we want Everything we want Everything we want Everything we want If we get interviewed in 30 years About what was happening here What will you tell 'em dear friend, And can we pretend it all already happened,?
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An artful rendering in styrofoam/ Some custom-fitted novel resting place: The animation frame that longs for home Will hasten its illustrious erase. Where are the fables for the fablescribe? He means to lie around himself for art And draws the unobligatory line To splay eternity and now apart. Indulge him now and ease into that frame-- The fables have been bottled at the source. Piss all yesterday's parties down the drain, Transcribe the tune that emptiness draws forth, Rinse out your coffee cup and start anew. The fables are subservient to you.
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Let me like you more I've had so much practice at this I'm not too big on theatrics Now you don't exactly have to be a bore, but Let me like you more I won't mind if I'm forgotten It's just that I haven't quite forgiven Myself for hearts I broke before So let me like you more You can like me completely Be so happy to see me But you've got to believe me You really don't need me Let me like you more I'm a scrapper yeah, that's how I want it I'll relish every disagreement And if you insist I won't even keep score, so come on And let me like you more But you've got to like me some to know me Yeah just enough to show me What it is I'm fighting for How I'd love to like you more You can like me completely Get so happy to see me But you've got to believe me You really don't need me
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I never said I wasn't falling for you I never said I wasn't going to It was an honor, was the least I could do If it's always been anyone, it's always been you She's so great She's so great, toggling knobs Tweaking my fate, she's so great She's so great She's so great, she's so great Hadn't considered getting over you Till you said something so interminably true Time to do as you say and not as you do Tried to game the system, now the game is through She's so great She's so great, toggling knobs Tweaking my fate, jerking my chain Setting me straight, she's so great Taking it all in, storing it someplace You coined the title, I should cut you a slice We could share the publishing--gee, that sounds nice But I don't think this was quite what you had in mind Sorry but after you fired me, I resigned She's so great She's so great, toggling knobs Tweaking my fate, she's so great She's so great, she's so great Jerking my chain, setting me straight She's so great Taking it all in, storing it someplace
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The last time I saw you Of course I wrote a song about it, which I then put on two albums One version was sweet, one was sour If I hadn't gone crazy, I bet you could have seen me You might even have liked me If I hadn't gone crazy, written thirty songs about you, And strewn 'em across several albums You said you're glad we're hanging out again As for me, I always hoped we could be friends But that was now and this is then

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released June 1, 2014

performed & produced by S.A. Bach

songs by Sebastian Abraham Bach
published by Straight Pathos (ASCAP) & Bach To Bach Music (ASCAP)

cover photo by Gretchen Bach

thanks to Steve Bach & Art Paz

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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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