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Dopamine Depression Datamine

by Philip Bosley

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Intro 00:59
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Lonely Nights, Crowded Room 05:29
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Can't complain about a gig on a Tuesday But the tips they just ain't flowin' my way Fancy suits ain't puttin' bread in my jar It's all going to the push-up bra behind the bar You'd better play 'em right, don't ruin their evening Don't step outta line, or put a new twist on an old thing Drunks calling out for “Freebird” and “more cowbell” Well, you can be yourself, if no one can tell Crowded rooms, and lonely nights Blushing groom, erudite She smells nice, it's just perfume Lonely nights, crowded room Did I even have a chance? Odds were slim Hired in a panic, fired on a whim Dropped like a bad date when the season ends It ain't easy being every band's other boyfriend Living on ibuprofen and caffeine Got another ill-fated bad feeling Falling victim to despair Stuck underpaid in the lobby of a billionaire Workin' half and makin' double Here in my low effort bubble Play the requests you abhor Crack a smile, try to endure Take a look around, break your habits Do you even know how good you have it? Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse Don't you know it could be so much worse?
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Old Hands 02:24
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Tired and miserable from the weather None the worse, not much better Just as sad as age fifteen Respites few and far between Coffee black, too much caffeine Self-imposed in a quarantine Lowest tier of the highest class Jittered fear cures nothing fast Twice the work yields half respect Chops galore, social neglect Playing ignorant to my vanity I was never hip, and now I never will be All my woes won't be outdone Sixteen going on Forty-One Slow boil 'til the water's cold Watch as my hands keep getting old
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Aging Bridesmaid 03:59
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The more I live this music life The more I think about this business The more I wanna dive off a bridge Vaulted humble narcissism You say it's not a competition Yeah, it's easy to say it when you're winning Maybe I just can't promote Maybe I just missed the boat Maybe I'm a just fool Maybe have a college try To not be such a bitter guy Tell me why, why oh why, why even try? Overstaffed, underhand Feelin' like a young old man Aging bridesmaid with no plan Save the scene, quit your band
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Shoestring 04:10
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Scattered thoughts in my hemispheres Crashing down like a chandelier The old clichés are ringing insincere Trying hard to not live in fear I found a better plan, it was “anything” A dedication unwavering As normal hangs by a shoestring Anxiety is flourishing It's the not the waiting, it's the fear Could everything just disappear Could be my time, good afternoon Could be my time, it feels too soon When the past haunts you with it's ghosts A lifetime's worth of “almost” What you'll never be, it just never clicked So better make yourself okay with it Scattered thoughts in my hemispheres Everything just rings insincere Dedication unwavering And normal hangs by a shoestring There's something wrong with my head
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Not a Love Song 06:23
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Life is not a love song Life is not a race to see who's more tired Over-short & under-long Making rights & righting wrongs Under-right & over-wrought Life is not a love song Plans are scattershot and piecemeal Toss your feelings like an orange peel Try to remind yourself if anything is real As you're ground up in the wheels Susceptible to paranoia and vertigo Lumbering and slow like the buffalo To hold on tight, or just let it go Play me off with my own adagio
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Hammer 02:37
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Ain't much here to write about City's odd, cold and strange Suits and homeless float around Sorry, I ain't got any change Polished lobby, broken street Transit buses, football teams Lunch crowd chatter, yuppie blues Nervous prospects, interviews Boring carpets, boring plants Foot traffic, sideways glance Garbage sandwich, coffee's swill Here with too much time to kill 6/8 meter in my head Write it out to 4/4 instead Can't go forward, this I know Stuck in here, nowhere to go As the writing turns to bleak What a way to start the week Plastic smiles bond the cliques Find your zen, find your feet Watch the city life unwind See the sights, none I can find I'm just fishing for a good line Just to kill a little bit more time
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775 03:29
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High test coffee, served piping hot Blackened toast on the stove top Meat, potatoes, wood smoke rises Paper plates straight in the fire Barely made it up the hill this time Spun the tires, the transmission whined She got me in, she'll get me home Road could use a couple loads of stone Smell the cedars, smell the pines Chase the spiders, chase the mice No distractions, ain't it nice Here in my backwoods paradise Sun gets low, put your sweaters on Propane fridge we all gave up on Awake by dawn, in bed before the night Phone might work if the wind blows right Homestead builders, sixties pioneers Still standing after fifty years Chimney needs patchin', the doors ain't square Center of the world in the middle of nowhere Pine trees rustle, wildlife sings Gets so quiet I can hear my ears ring Turn off everything, come back again It helps me find who I really am
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Just Another Evening 05:50
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Eyes on the lounge, drifting to the front row Watchin' Little Miss Six-Pack flirt with her date Crop top, blonde hair, niiiiiice legs Now, she's showin' off the triceps while she sat in his lap Kinda hard not to stare, at a scene like that But as she left in a huff, safe to say they ain't soul mates It's another evening of blind date misses With insecure gender role competitions Just another evening watching bad decisions Tip the band, we love your sound Love the happenstance of hotel bars and rabble We'd love, to hire you, if y'ever come down 'round our way So let's talk travel, let's talk sports Unprompted biases, healthcare and news quotes Why'd you have to bring up how you're gonna vote? It's another evening of straw men and rhetoric Eyeroll opinions and misplaced pride Just another evening watching left and right divide Move the tables, pack a dance floor With middle-aged cuddles and three beer shuffles Throwback to platforms, wide lapels, & bell bottoms So much nostalgia for malaise era jingles Cuttin' a rug to Nixon-term radio singles Reminiscing 'bout cars without any seatbelts Just another evening of Fogerty and Morrison Just another evening of Hip and Roy Orbison Just another evening of Boomer Soapbox Moralism
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Outro 00:59
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released November 6, 2020

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