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  • Strategies to Live

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 14: Strategies to Live

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This was written for Circle of Titles in 2016, when I was assigned the title "Strategies to Live," which felt super relevant given the then-recent Presidential election which was at odds with my safety as a trans person.

    It took me five years to release this album, and I kept on feeling like it was too late to release this topical song, and yet, somehow it manages to remain topical.

    LYRICS

    You can hide yourself down a deep, dark hole

    Or hoist yourself on a really tall pole
    Anything that’ll help you get away

    You can do heavy drugs to numb the pain, or

    Ask a surgeon to remove your brain
    So you can fit right in and start to play

    Change your face and change your name

    Hide everything that brings you shame
    Or go on a preemptive sneak attack

    Dig deep into the viper’s pit

    Embroil yourself in petty shit
    Just commit ‘coz there’s no turning back

    Oh, I wish I didn’t worry oh so much

    Oh, I wish I could feel fine
    Oh, if only all my hopes weren’t out of touch
    I wish my safety wasn’t on the line

    If you’re accused of doing a bad crime

    Want to hide for a very very very long time
    Consider all the possibilities

    Make a run for President

    Convince the people you are heaven sent
    You might just win and then you are home free

    Even if you’re caught lying

    Everyone gives you points for trying
    It’s not that the bear stakes well, it skates at all

    Even if you destroy the world

    It doesn’t matter, you can fuck every girl
    And then you can go home and take your ball

    Oh, I wish I didn’t worry oh so much

    Oh, I wish I could feel fine
    Oh, if only all my hopes weren’t out of touch
    I wish my safety wasn’t on the line

    In the long run everything will be fine

    It will just be a matter of time, in
    Twelve billion years this will all be gone

    In the meantime just try to survive

    The world is better with you alive
    Outliving him is a reason to go on

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  • Fibromyalgia

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 13: Fibromyalgia

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    I wrote this song the night after I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, based on the then-current understanding of the condition (before new research showed that it's actually an autoimmune condition), and also about my long-time frustration with just how people who don't experience chronic pain talk to people who do.

    LYRICS

    Every day I’m just a little older

    I feel a little twinge up in my shoulder
    Icing up my limbs until they’re colder
    Reduce the burning pain into a smolder

    I’ve got fibromyalgia

    I’ve got fibromyalgia
    I feel a lot of pain but it’s
    Mostly in my brain I have
    Fibromyalgia

    I’ve got Fibromyalgia

    Fibromyalgia
    There’s something in my brain that makes me
    Sensitive to pain I’ve got
    Fibromyalgia

    Well I think it’s pretty nice

    To eat turmeric and rice
    With a spicy Indian curry

    And I get so much advice

    And I’ve heard it once or twice
    About swimming and Pilates and so much yoga
    (You should swim do Pilates and so much yoga!)

    Fibromyalgia, I’ve got

    Fibromyalgia
    It’s excruciating pain
    That comes from my defective brain
    I’ve got fibromyalgia

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  • Good Luck Charm

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 11: Good Luck Charm

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This was the 2016 Live Fight entry for Song Fight! Live! in New York City.

    It's just a happy accident that these two Live Fight entries from the same city happened to go next to each other on this album.

    LYRICS

    This thing I found lying in the street

    Don’t know what it is but it’s pretty neat
    When I picked it up, it filled me with energy

    Now everyone’s always lookin’ around

    Turning their head to see this thing I found
    Give me a look, I think that it’s jealousy

    It'll always be my lucky charm

    Keeping me safe and free from harm
    I know everything will always be okay

    Everything all said, I’m good

    At least long as I’m touching wood
    My good luck charm will always save the day

    It looks kind of like a rocket ship

    Keep it on my belt, held it with a clip
    And suddenly nobody wants to fight

    Walking through the village green,

    Lots of people say "that's keen!"
    Some of them even cheer and shout "All right!"

    It'll always be my lucky charm

    Keeping me safe and free from harm
    I know everything will always be okay

    Everything all said, I’m good

    At least long as I’m touching wood
    My good luck charm will always save the day

    A baker must be what I be

    Because everybody says to me
    Something about the dough made of dill that I wear

    I'm not quite sure what they mean

    But I don't want to make a scene
    Anyway they said to look out for a bear

    I walked on by a man in blue

    He took one look and said “how do you do,
    I think I’m gonna take you into custody”

    I wasn’t sure just what he meant

    But then it was clear this was heaven-sent
    Because that bear can never get to me

    It'll always be my lucky charm

    Keeping me safe and free from harm
    I know everything will always be okay

    Everything all said, I’m good

    At least long as I’m touching wood
    My good luck charm will always save the day

    It'll always be my lucky charm

    Keeping me safe and free from harm
    I know everything will always be okay

    Everything all said, I’m good

    At least long as I’m touching wood
    My good luck charm will always save the day

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  • Golfpunk Rides Again

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 9: Golfpunk Rides Again

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This song was written as a 20th anniversary celebration of the very first Song Fight! [http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=golfpunk_drives_a_cadillac].

    LYRICS

    20 years ago I knew this guy, you probably know the type. His name was Gary or Greg or something, but everyone knew him as Golfpunk. His whole thing was breaking in windows of expensive cars using a golf club to protest the wealth gap or... somethin' like that.

    Anyway, he called himself a performance artist, and some rich dude decided it would be funny to give him a Cadillac to drive around, you know, "ironically?" Golfpunk, he changed, man... He changed.

    (Golfpunk, he drives a Cadillac)

    (Golfpunk, he drives a Cadillac)
    (Golfpunk, he drives a Cadillac)
    (Golfpunk, he drives a Cadillac)

    Now that he had a Cadillac of his own he suddenly felt a lot of empathy for the other Cadillac owners and stopped smashing windows. He wanted to smash things, though, so... he took his golf club to the golf course and... he started playing.

    You know, golf.

    The rich peoples' sport.

    And he was good at it.

    (Golfpunk, he drives a nine iron)

    (Golfpunk, he drives a nine iron)
    (Golfpunk, he drives a nine iron)
    (Golfpunk, he's gonna crash and burn)

    He ended up entering into a tournament and won a lot of money, but then his past caught up with him and all these rich assholes, like, sued him for the windows he broke. And then he had to go on a big ol' apology tour, 'cause it's not like he hurt anyone or said anything racist, but God forbid some windows get smashed up.

    Anyway, we all kind of lost track of him for a long time, but then a few weeks ago he reached out to me and was like, "Hey, remember me?" And I was like, "Hey, I remember you! Man, Golfpunk! It's been a long heckin' time." Then he kinda went silent.

    And then he says to me, "So, um, I'm not Golfpunk anymore. I got married, settled down, had kids... now I'm more of a... golf dad."

    And I was like, "Oh. Huh. Weird."

    And then he said the most offensive thing to me ever:

    "And now I drive a Prius."

    (Golfpunk, he drove a Cadillac)

    (Golfpunk, he drove a Cadillac)
    (Golfpunk, he drove a Cadillac)
    (Golfpunk, he drove a Cadillac)

    Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is it's okay to grow up sometimes, and maybe you're going to grow apart too. And that's alright.

    Just don't become an asshole.

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  • Better Luck Next Year

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 12: Better Luck Next Year

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This song was written for Song Fight! Live 2020, and I don't think people got the joke that it was a song about how 2020 was going to have been so much better than 2019 was.

    (For those reading this from the distant future: It very much wasn't.)

    LYRICS

    This year had its challenges

    All my flowers dead, my
    pain got worse, my brain got worse, there’s
    something wrong with my head

    What happened to my career, it

    didn't go my way
    Things feel bad, and I'm in fear I
    won't live another day

    oh, it can only get better

    oh, I know it will get better

    we see the rise of fascists who think

    many lives don’t matter
    a president who’s on the brink, only
    cares to be flattered

    where can our people go from here

    it all just seems too much
    famine devastation fear
    we need a human touch

    oh, it can only get better

    oh, I know it will get better

    but it wasn’t all so bad

    some of it was swell
    remember all the good times we had
    Song Fight! Live went well

    We take the hand we have been dealt

    this year's problems were a-plenty
    2019 really smelt, so
    here’s to 2020

    oh, it can only get better

    oh, I know it will get better
    oh, it can only get better
    oh, I know it will get better

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  • Isle Dauphine

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 10: Isle Dauphine

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This was the 2011 Live Fight entry for Song Fight! Live! in New York City.

    LYRICS

    My isle dauphine

    She'll never come clean
    What does she mean
    She'll never go clean
    Oh, isle dauphine

    She walks down the aisle

    All of the while
    I'm thinking I'll
    Walk single file
    Oh, isle dauphine

    I heard what she said, and

    She's turning all red
    Might as well be dead for
    Everything she said
    Oh, isle dauphine

    She's walking the border with

    everything in order and
    takes off the garter and
    Runs a bit harder
    Oh, isle dauphine

    My isle dauphine

    She'll never come clean
    What does she mean
    She'll never go clean
    Oh, isle dauphine

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  • Sebastian Arnold – drum trigger live performance (2008)

    Live performance of Sebastian Arnold 'mad scientist drummer' at Antje Øklesund Berlin back in 2008. Gear used: acoustic drum kit, drum triggers on bassdrum and snare, Roland drum pads, Nord Modular G2 Synthesizer, Nord Rack 2.

    The song is called 'Spanky' from 'mad scientist drummer' (beeah–music, 2008), listen here: https://sebastianarnold.bandcamp.com/album/mad-scientist-drummer

    More information on the setup: https://www.sebastian-arnold.net/projects/live-performance-setup

    (upscaled video originally posted on YouTube in 2008)

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  • Space Cadet

    Songs of Substance

    ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/
    Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff

    Track 8: Space Cadet

    Original song by Brother Machine

    Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance

    ABOUT THIS TRACK

    This was recorded in posthumous tribute to its composer, Seth Gibbs [https://www.statesman.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/11/05/austin-musicians-remember-pop-artist-seth-gibbs/9280815007/], who probably did not intend for this song to be about himself.

    His old band [https://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=brother_machine&sortkey=date]'s original version is available on Song Fight! [https://songfight.org/music/spacecadet/brothermachine_spacecadet.mp3].

    LYRICS

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

    Space cadet can you see all of the planets and stars

    Lifeless and empty but they know who they are
    He is so alone
    But we are really alone

    Fly away, leave us alone, we don't want you anyway

    I hope you're happy floating free up in space
    It's so nice up there
    But it's so rotten down here

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

    You watch the universe go

    You wishing on the last star
    What do you think of us now
    How can you live with us now

    Hey cadet, where do you think

    You're going don't float away
    Take us with you, we'll miss you so

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

    Space cadet, what can you bring us

    To bring us together

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