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Hello, World!

from Every Song in the Universe by Brian Gray

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[Verse 1]
Hey there, it may be just my current state,
But I swear, I haven't seen a girl like you since 1348.
And really by then she was almost gone.
You've got that "absence of boils and pus" thing really going on.
I bet you hear that all the time.
If I just behave a bit less grim for now would that be such a crime?
Decade by decade they work me to the bone.
Enough is enough, it's time to reap what I've sown.

[Chorus]
So hello, world! Here I am just in from
Nowhere, down an eon's worth of memories. Before I ought
To go, world, time to show our hands. I got
Forty-seven hours and like twenty minutes left. Show me what you've got.

[Verse 2]
I forget, is this my third or fourteenth gin?
I don't sweat the weight I've always just been skin and bones without the skin.
Hey what's that pill you've been taking with your beer?
Lalalalalalala never mind, just pass one over here.
Between the famines, war, and crime,
I burn out, the travel kicks my ass with boots of unpaid overtime.
All for some glorified naked chimpanzee.
Hey, no offense, but you people's deaths suck for me.

[Chorus]

I get it. I'm aware of the "balance", and "natural order" of things.
Can you hear the "air quotes" that I'm using?
The universe needs me on the job, but what I need right now is more tequila.

[Chorus]

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from Every Song in the Universe, track released November 6, 2011

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