(written in ‘summer 2009’)
(final version recorded in 2013)
(in my princeton NJ bedroom)
(1st command to ‘jon the batshit’)
“onward and upward ye christian soldier!”
(as we ‘exit the ivy’ yet again)
(for the n-th time that week)
(2009 version is closing track of ‘good morning!’)
(2013 version appears on the ‘tabula rasa’ song cycle)
written around the time i was recording traditional tunes
(cue ‘battle hymn of the republic’)
intro in Aminor
verses in Cmajor
choruses in Dmajor
coda in Cmajor
about myself as self-deprecating messianic figure
(like radiohead’s ‘creep’)
some october 2009 youtube post referenced a mixing of DNA of hitler, einstein, and dahmer????
(though i’m not gay, jewish, nor a serial killer!)
goes together with “crimson chicks”
(i as ‘cosmic creep’…)
(prey as ‘crimson chicks’)
(i was known my girls as a ‘creep’ at harvard)
(at least ACCORDING TO DUDES)
(pseudo alpha dudes who were bigger + stronger than me)
(but still knew i was better with girls than they were)
(these so-called ‘dudes’ were named ‘christopher ware’ and ‘james dowell’ by the way)
(“but they wuz ain’t no ‘buddies o’mine’…)
(sweet child o’mine)
(sweet caroline)
(tow the line…)
(“they had plenty ‘o time…”)
XXX
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