JOY,
NOSTALGIA,
WORLDVIEWS
& DEATH

1. JOY

Tervetuloa

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2. Welcome to the World

Creating life, peculiar thing
You got to have a swimmer who makes it to town
Which is a warm place, for cells to divide, and there’s one chance to make it out alive

Being pregnant is a helluva job, you gotta have a stomach for it
There is a kick inside and many more to come when outside
Welcome to the world boy, welcome to the world child

Only life can give life and every other thing can take it away
Because of how fragile everything is, you better have luck and then some as you go

There will be sex there will be laughter
Gonna be a party and another right after
Time – that fucker – makes it all worthwhile. Welcome to the world boy, welcome to the world child

There was a flyover of flamingos on the day when you were born.
Flamboyances they call them. Flamboyances for the flamboyant kid.

Just before the water breaks.. hear how your mother waits.. then you draw your first breath, welcome to the world
Be born, become you.. grab the hair lianas.. be sure to crap your diapers, welcome to the world
Who are all those floating heads? Why are they all smiling? All they do is touch my face, welcome to the world
Catch the ray of sunlight.. feel the rain for the first time.. see everything around you saying: welcome to the world

I’m a child I might be me. Is there someone I can be? Can I go play now? How long will I run free?

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3. Playhood

I’ll be playing Batistuta, Messi or Maradona, I kick the ball or the referee
Having the summer of my childhood and now I’m gonna run to the hills where the grasses are green
In the beginning we’re all innocent before adolescence and all the other lessons.
Playhood! Every day is a playdate and it feels good
Make believe is what we believe in .. Playhood!

I saw a movie ‘bout an android and origami, cool dystopias and Robocop-walk
I learned to read and I gotta get a Murakami, I wanna know how the animals talk
In the beginning we’re all innocent before adolescence and all the other lessons
Playhood! No burden of the past, bruises heal so fast, sure feels good

We can play the doctor, we can be them presidents
We can play those cowboys, Indianas or aliens
My friend’s dad is our landlord, I tell him mine was a space man
Who paid a visit and now my mom pays with what she can
Make believe is what we believe in (syömään!)

My bisquit rollin’ mama, keepin’ my blood sugar high
I gotta roof over top of my head and bread on the table, you can say I’m satisfied.

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4. Dancin’ Bone

My bone was found, when I saw you strollin’ the hillside baby
My bone was found, shake to the rhythm of that Aretha lady
When bone was found, I got lost in plotless movies baby
The bone was found, inspired by all those magazines maybe

C’mon let it live a long
Childhood is forever gone
It’s an initiation, dance like you’ve gone mad with
Dancin’ bone!

My bone is found with the slo-mo runnin’ in Baywatch baby
My bone is found from the language teacher’s cleavage ain’t it
The bone is found, I’ll be movin’ down to the woodshed baby
The bone is found, and a lot of Kleenex boxes bought lately

Legs to walk with, eyes to see it, hands to touch it, to believe it! Dancin’ bone!

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5. Majestic Holler

We are the secret society, twelve steps away from the sobriety
Look what you put into motion, city of light, gleaming champagne
Forget about those Dungeons and Dragons
City by night is gonna be our campaign

I give you the majestic holler baby, I give you the free your mind notion
In full regalia, majestic holler baby, in full regalia, Saturnalia

We’re bored and we build Eden-Olympias
You’re new in a town and your innocence it will depend on us
Tie me up pour the stearin, give it a go, let’s wax play
Invite a third or a fourth wheel, go with the flow, or with MDMA

I give you the Majestic Holler baby, I give you the free your mind notion
In full regalia, majestic Holler baby, in full regalia, Saturnalia.

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6. Rooftops

I found me love, oh lord she good lookin’, her kiss like a kick in a face
I fell in love then fell from the rooftop, you made me climb back up again

I’m all in love, I wanna go announce it, I’m payin’ for the priest and a ring
I fell in love then fell from the rooftop, you made me climb back up again

I shout it out I love you out loud, I shout it out just how much I’m in love with you
I shout it from the rooftops

We’re stayin’ home while our friends go clubbin’, besides it might even rain..
I fell in love then fell from the rooftop, you made climb back up again.

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7. NOSTALGIA

Bakerloo Line, take me back in time
Though my mind always tells a lie, you’re still my Bakerloo Line.

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8. Bakerloo Line

I’m on the Bakerloo Line, oh how I wanted to shine, but as a tourist can’t find no boogie
Bakerloo Line, Bakerloo Line, only a gleam in the hipster’s eye
Bakerloo Line, Bakerloo Line, it is a right place, the wrong time

We took a ride went to the other side, Bakerloo Line taken us back in time
Where the women finally found their voice and Twiggy was ridin’ a train
To follow the Guru of the week, droppin’ acid like it was rain

This ain’t no Swinging London it’s the right place, the wrong time
Bakerloo Line is like a royal family; brought up but far from her prime
Can not find the werewolf of Warren, can not kiss Anita or Marianne
Long lost but not forgotten are the days and the fat of the land
When Mick and Keith had a rock n’ roll band or John Lennon lived in Elvis-land

We took a ride went to the other side, Bakerloo Line taken us back in time
Where the women finally found their voice and Twiggy was ridin’ a train
To follow the Guru of the week, droppin’ acid like it was rain
Whitaker Wright committed a suicide, Bakerloo Line remains there for us to ride
To sit between Charlie and Ginger back when drummers still made it swing

This is a Bakerloo Line to Nowhere. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform. The next station is Somewhere. Exit here for Joy, Nostalgia, Worldviews and Death.

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9. Bring it Back

Yester-decade is a drowning man’s dry land
I spend my workday and my weekend stuck in my past life
Like swimming around Amity Island circa 1975
Wanna feel the youth on my skin wanna go back in time
I recap all the memories, bring it back and rewind
Saw my past and future as a one linear line
But we both know that it ain’t the shape of time
Wanna go back when it wasn’t that bad ain’t that sad? Bring it Back!

We made some beautiful babies, riches, marriages, then came the glitches
We tried to repair our hearts with one or two too many stiches.
So fulfilled but at the same time strangely dissatisfied
So let’s head down to magistrate, have divorce papers ratified.
Needle on my vinyl and there’s nothing I lack
I wanna reminisce the best days I ever had
I’m fat, forty and not that sporty, time was a gag
I wanna go back when it wasn’t that bad ain’t that sad?

It might be that I’m just gonna have to live with my crap
Although I’d like to take it all back and have nothing of that
Bored with this modern day pop crap
We oughta be ashamed of our generation’s soundtrack
The golden era, the false memory of the fool
You wanna listen to the hit music that’s cool
But lemme get back to my old records, back to that hard rock shit
The guitar hero on the mountain top, you don’t get it baby just piss off
There he goes, striking a pose, on the top of a tall building, playing his ass off.

I know I’m living in the past and I know I’m wrong
I’m stubborn and I’m gonna burn in the Babylon
How can I know about the time that’s forever gone
I got a ticket to the train that will travel on.

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10. Hedonistic

When we were going through your wine list baby, it was all red white and rosé
Then you made me try your whiskey cream sauce, it was all warm delicate and cozy

I remember your symphonic cooking, never cared about the world that’s ending
Don’t know how could we be so hedonistic
Never needed no reservation, too many starters but I go for the main course
Don’t know how could we be so hedonistic

Climate is burning like a pig in a skewer babe, overcooked, overripe and somewhat lonely
Just because I wanna have a few more for me, postponing inescapable only.

Unavoidable ending of the world while I’m eating like a fat fuck I am
I remember your symphonic cooking, I remember you
Burgers, pizzas and nostalgias
Golden era the false memory of the fool.

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11. Dance Like You’ve Never Gone Mad

Life is getting boring like cocaine snorting even the rappers are now mundane
Some of them are Kanye-level crazy but their music still sounds the same
We live our lives like it was advertised, same conservative status symbols
Cancel the party, slaughter the lambs, we’re not allowed to dance

Now I see all our vanity baby, for your new shoes the rains will stop and
What once was so wild is now so lame
We dance like we’ve never gone mad
No wonder we look so sad
When we dance like we’ve never gone mad

Rage Against the Machine is now just a part of machine that they were raging against and now they can be seen
Headlining the big festivals, mosh pit for the middle class! Fillmore East had it done, but now all the fun is gone

How I miss all your vanity baby, for your new shoes the rains still stop and what once was so wild is now so tame
While I’m stuck in nostalgia baby, you move forward and don’t even miss it, me and my majestic holler are now just lame
You dance like you’ve never gone mad, now baby how you look so sad, we dance like we’ve never gone mad
Now baby let it out show me what are you about and we dance like we never ever had!

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12. Huckleberry

What kinda love do ya’ need?
If you can’t say it out loud
Then you whisper it my huckleberry friend
What kinda love is out there anyway? ¨

Remember how love used to be so easy?
Can’t say those words out loud for someone who really needs to hear them
What kinda love is over anyway?

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13. WORLDVIEWS

Do you wanna go by now? Are you gonna stay? Have it your way
We’re designed for life like the moon and tide

What we’ve got to lose? Maybe just our worldviews
Staying and leaving, searching for the meaning
Make-believe is what we believed in

Can you save me? Can you hold me?
You saved and held me.

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14. Spiritual Man

Was talking to the scientist about world and how it keeps on turning
Was talking to the thinking man about everything and all
Made myself a laughing stock with my beliefs of tomorrow’s yearning
Was told that I was egocentric if I do believe there’s a soul
And the Earth is still round and I don’t believe that Jesus was white

You say that you have the answers in your hand
I say there’s things that you don’t understand
You don’t believe that I can be so stupid ‘cause no one can
But the difference between you and me
Is that you believe what you can see
And I.. I’m a spiritual man.

And this is the most retarded point that we could ever argue about
You’re all facts and figures and I’m in another state of mind
I swim in a foam I feel how the molecules dance all around me so clear and loud
My mind goes over the matter through all the space and time
But the Earth is still round and I don’t believe that Jesus was white.

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15. Still Water

Still water knows your pain
Still water hides beneath the storm and rain
Still water needs no name, still water’s still the same
Still water’s deep and so was love
Still water knows who you’ve been thinking of
Still water keeps your salty tears, still water mirrors your deepest fears
When reaching our last frontiers, still water’s been here for billion years
In still water all time disappears
Still water has seen our civilizations
Carried our battle ships and our oil rig stations
Still water don’t believe in no Jesus Christ
Still water doesn’t care about our alibies

Let me take you to the end of the water where the fish step on the land
Let me take you to the end of the water where the thumb appears in hand
Let me take you to the end of the water where we understand
Let me take you to the end of the water where an ape creates AI
Let me take you to the end of the water where the machines learn how to lie
Let me take you to the end of the water where the robot cries on how everything dies.

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16. The Atheist Prayer

I might recite the atheist prayer
Answered by no one nowhere
Ignite the altar candles, let them flare
I feel like no one’s listening up there.

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17. Quick, Find a Purpose

Build a dwell in Africa, have a child and write a book
Never skip the yoga, learn how to paint and how to cook
Stop drinking alcohol, run a marathon or more
Build a house and lock the door, consume more, exploit the poor

Quick, find a purpose! Should I try and leave a mark?
Quick, find a purpose! Or just drink beer out in the park?

Find a god you could believe in, a new shiny savior
Never do a good deed without asking for a favor
Make a pretentious double album about the seasons of mind
Bullshit like an artist, hear a good song go rob it blind.

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18. Staying and Leaving

Baby daughter, step outside
Home is not real estate, it’s a state of mind
Baby daughter, out on the street
You can smoke all you want but that won’t give you anything to breath
Take me home little Irene, lie to me that it will be okay. Because life is moments of staying and leaving

Baby daughter, have a stroll with me
Go leave your phone unanswered at home, there’s something I want you to see
Baby daughter, you’re a pearl. Can you hear how the birds are singing on the trees, we still have the world
Take me down little Irene, lie to me that it’ll be okay, because life is moments of staying and leaving

Baby daughter, we laughed and cried
It was always about only how we have lived, never about how we died
Darling daughter you gotta see with your mind’s eye
You will find your peace from somewhere between nowhere and goodbye
Take me down the line little Irene, you lie to me that it will be okay
‘Cause life is moments of staying and leaving.

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19. Saw a God in New Orleans

I saw a god in New Orleans in a rhyme of a poem
I saw a god in New Orleans come carry me home
I saw a god in New Orleans down on the street
With an overhand knot in her shoelace dancing to the beat
It was all in my head; joy nostalgia worldviews and death
That’s what she said, with no explanation
Louisiana hallucination.

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20. DEATH

I see sound, I hear color, I feel the resonance
God is time, time is God, forever
As my life flows like water through the river

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
To my mind those words mean the ending
As my mind escapes to the beauty of song seraphic
It’s the soundscapes like ocean, vast and thalassic

Blind Lemon Jefferson wanted his grave clean
But around my tombstone you can behave obscene
Piss on my grave let them flowers grow
Don’t let the good people in sacristy tell you no
Oh boy oh boy how can a poor boy afford to die
With the rates of an undertaker or the prices of a rabbi?
Put me in the paper bag with some potato salad in it
So that the worms will have a feast and even the cockroaches might dig it
Ever think how depressing the social media gets when all of our friends start to drop like sunsets?
Our profiles in socials will become obituary, found guilty in egomania, convicted by any jury
The cruelest joke ain’t the one in which we get hit by the bus
It’s the one in which we become self-aware only to realize that the story was not about us
So don’t go shopping for any fancy coffin just bury me naked now
Let the grass grow on top of me and feed it to the cow.

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21. War is Never Won

Only the dead have seen the end of war, you see a friend, you kill a foe
Waged by the rich, fought by the poor, this madness started long ago
Now there we go drawing lines on the map, claiming someone else’s land with someone else’s flag
By shooting father, son or brother down, love will be lost and never found

War is always futile, war is never won
He who never wants it is forced to hold a gun
News they scare me, dictators on TV
I hope it ends for them as it ends for me

Inequality is our way of life that they say I must defend
But we’re all equal only when we die so maybe one should make amend
Oh here we go obeying orders of some insecure man with nuclear weapon in his hand
May our children finally find a way to make peace to make a stand

Kid who got away won’t be suffering
Kid who got away, the last peace offering.

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22. No More Flamingos

No more flamingos, time to bid adieu and fly away with you
My inner voice asking questions, I prefer them all unanswered
Like the name of the road I never travelled on
Point of the compass I should have gone
I lose; it was always now it was never yesterday
And I can sing my blues about the better days behind
About the young or old, about how time’s supposed to fly
About whether we have a soul
Kiss was pink, sunset pink, rooftops pink, no more pink

Mother Earth and you – we all suffocate
Even flamingos now migrate
Etch the essence of my life upon my headstone
That you don’t visit on your holidays
All is forgiven – There ain’t no easy ways

That is how we lose, it was always now it was never yesterday
If I could only choose not to face reality, not to come of age
I don’t want to see the summers go or allow seasons to change
Death was pink, worldviews pink, purpose pink, no more pink.

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23. Voyage

Voyage. Celebrate the ego loss for one last time, let go of the body and mind
Voyage. Rubber boat across the ocean and the storms wash away the grind
Now there’s no more future as there never was past, go leave it all behind

Voyage. We’re ascending to a higher state of being, in our dreams unseen
Voyage. Meaningless are names and numbers carved to stone as we’re forever gone
It only takes some generations to forget that we ever lived

Voyage. Singers, writers, poets, they all believed in love, so why should not we?
The grand idea in which we all just played a part, or so I choose to believe.

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24. Out

Out. On the beach. Out of reach. Out. Out in the woods. Out.
Out in the rain. Across the river. Out to the ocean side. Out.
Out of these clothes. Out of the bag. Out in the open. Out.

Joy, nostalgia, worldviews and death
Roses were more green than they were red
Take what’s mine, go make it yours
Flogging a dead horse, stay the course

Who are all those floathing heads? Why are they all crying?
All they do is touch my face. I’m ready to leave the world
I still remember sunlight, felt the rain for the last time
Now I draw my last breath, I’m ready to leave the world
Get me out of ambulance, get me out of hospitals
Out of these pyjamas, I’m ready to leave the world
What is this I’m feeling? I hover through the ceiling
It’s getting quite dark here, when you follow do not fear
As I cease to be, now there’s no more me
I’m sure you go and make me proud, go sing your January

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25. January

The ring that he gave me, it was an ornament of gold
It once belonged to the man, the very best of ‘em all
The ring that he gave me, it is a real honor to wear
The preacher said: “God ran out of good men and he needed one up there”

And it came down, it came down it all came down on January
The memories are locked in my heart
And I will always keep my part in making you proud

The day that he left me
It was when part of my soul died
When you grow up I will take you to the river that I have cried
There I make sure you know him, he was a mentor and friend
Who daily gave everything he got for me, until the very end.

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