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Exposition, Sex, and Pyromania

by Paul, The Epithet

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1.
Introduction 01:00
2.
It's Me and you across a crowded room Full of people who laughed, danced, cried and spoke too soon Be my concert hall honeymoon of disaster past Together with all our wealth I'm a hazard to my health So dance with me And everyone else There for once as one An epithet for all And all for none We aren't one anymore
3.
Dear God, answer this What do you call the feeling, with the dealing of madness Healing, and peeling away from my fits It’s always better off, fixing itself, ever bent We don’t have to be better Just different Postcarded floating magnetic connection over wind Graded over time, counseled life better of Tell not to Madrid, why I’ve sinned Once I was in love What do you name the ocean, that’s deeper than the sea And how does life keep going, on all around me Changed in a past tensed world, ever bent The same person I’ve always been Just different. I’ll always be a shh after your crashing wave Go to Spain without me at your side If so, remember, that we can save Every prayer, a Los Angeles raid Good Apollo, newly crowned I wait Good Athena, please open the gate Good Ares, Go forth my hate Good Andromeda, weave my fate Good Apophenia, revealed steps too late Good Artemis, hunt to confirm state I am no burning star Dear God? Stop
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Fuck you James Joyce, I love you but I can’t find my own voice Fuck you e. e., I love you but I don’t know me I can’t trust myself and I can’t trust the screen And I need something stronger than caffeine If I plead insanity right now and here Will God drop my sentence 25 years? We’ll always have Paris and Disappointment Where we were embarrassed and each other’s entertainment Meet me out back by a white house And I’ll show you I’m doin’ just fine Out of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world She walks into mine
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I’m never self-conscious when I should be And I’m never alone when I should be All the moments that pass by me Never stay around when I’d need The longest I’ve been alive was two hours On an air mattress, 500 days of summer ago The shortest was five minutes In a closet, marijuana and a low blow ago On average it’s fifteen On a couch, bed, yes, you can rest your crest on my chest And this is how I’ll sing you to sleep Che hates you, Viva la revolucion Fights with no resolution Another nail in a brand new coffin Built of things I think of far too often The longest I’ve been alive was two hours On an air mattress, 500 days of summer ago The shortest was five minutes In a closet, marijuana and a low blow ago On average it’s fifteen On a couch, bed, yes, you can rest your crest on my chest And this is how I’ll sing you to sleep I’ll treat you, the only one here even When we both know, we’ll never get to heaven We’re all in this together, this flash living fake love true, long as we’re connected by flesh giving I might as well help us both float high And even after, we’ll roll and cry
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A final dance Among the glances Of everyone I've ever despised One middle finger to their Envious eyes FUCKING LIARS Happiness in a red wine glass I drink to all their sickness I drink to you Lyrics by Heidi Marie
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Kept Vows 03:29
Maybe It's Because I'm always so strong That now I feel so weak There's fuckall to day to-do all wrong Bullet of love, shot, my forehead leaks Chorus: See here we move as one Dancing lovers on the barrel of a gun Losing battles that once were won Battle axe my happy soul It's all okay, save for nights Where my head a red hot coal Lightning strike is me, flicking the lights CHORUS Lost boys as vampiric as myself Unsure If I'm a hazard to your health Happy, sad, I don't fight mad On, off, change the lights, truly I am glad Maybe It's Because I'm always so strong That now I feel so weak There's fuckall to day to-do all wrong Bullet of love, shot, my forehead leaks CHORUS
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Know that my love was not a lie And I’d love to help you hold up high Know that though I made mistakes I cared for you though breaks Know that I wish you the best And The time we had was time enough To feel blest SO HERES TO YOU I HOPE THAT I’LL STOP FEELING BLUE SO CHEERS TO YOU, AND TOO HIM TOO AND ALL THIS LIFE THAT WE WENT THROUGH TO WALKING ON THIS FINE LINE HERE’S TO ONCE UPON A TIME And though there’s nothing worse than hearing other peoples love songs On the radio late at night The loneliest sound is either that or listening to other people make love Or kiss deep, and right I suppose I could be bitter or angry But frankly that’d just bring more misery And, on my part, immaturity SO HERES TO YOU I KNOW THAT I’LL STOP FEELING BLUE SO CHEERS TO YOU AND TO HIM TOO AND HERE’S TO TRUTH AND END OF STRIFE AND HEAR WITH ME HERE’S TO THIS LIFE
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Outro 01:30

about

This certainly isn't the best album in the world, but it's the one I've worked hardest at, and feel best about. It's the one with lyrics I don't hate, vocals I don't hate and songs that I actually feel like practicing. It's been what I've been focusing on like no other in the past couple months while I've been dealing with my depression like never before. Thanks to Heidi for the lyrics she wrote for me a long fucking time ago. Thanks to all my friends for dealing with my bullshit on a daily basis, special thanks to Alex for letting me use some of his Fireworks for the album cover. Thanks to Paul Weintrob and Henry Meyers, for inspiration, advice, and their own great music. Best of luck. Thanks to Pat the Bunny as well, though I've never had any communication with him, he was a major inspiration for this album too and his music has been the soundtrack to the nights when I've been so depressed I could hardly breath. Thanks to every ex-girlfriend I've ever had. Without you this album would be decidedly worse.

There is a story to this album if you can get past muddled vocals, the instruments I "Play" in strange and inappropriate ways, and my own mediocre knowledge as to how to put a song together. There are a couple of fun extras if you download it. The original subtitle for this was "Casablanca as told through Finnegans Wake" And I still think that's a good descriptor. Figure it out for yourself though, I'm not one for exposition.

It's all a circle, life and this album both.

This album is by no means a masterpiece. Or some piece of beautiful art work, or even necessarily "good music" but it's something I had to do. And I'm happy with it. And maybe, just maybe, there will be something in here that you like or relate too and can enjoy. Maybe someday, I'll get to scream these songs to some people, instead of my computer microphone.

A toast, to once upon a time.

credits

released January 15, 2013

Paul- Guitar, Piano, Mandolin, Ukelele, Vocals, Lyrics, Production
Heidi Marie-Lyrics on track 3

Text read in Introduction and Outro is from the book "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.

Audio in "Drunken Interlude" is 90% Casablanca, 10% me playing natural harmonics.


Recorded with Audacity in my bedroom. I still don't have a microphone, so you'll have to deal with fuzzy vocals.

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Paul, The Epithet Reno, Nevada

Hi, My name is Paul. I write music on a guitar, and scream alone in a bedroom about love, life, Casablanca, squids, occasionally punkrockanarchy, and a number of other things. Sometimes I use other instruments too, to varying degrees of quality. This is some music. ... more

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