Let's Get Drunk!
Man, I can’t believe I never posted this tune. Here goes!
There are two parts to my brain. The creative part just keeps pumping out ideas and I do my best never to get in it’s way. Then there’s the second part of my brain, the editor. He likes to ruminate, to filter, to contextualize. He’s the one that hammers and polishes those raw ideas into something. He’s just as important to the process. But sometimes he gets a unhappy with his role in things. Sometimes he blanches at the ideas that the first part of my brain comes up with.
“That’s too obvious”, he’ll offer.
“Really? A song called about getting drunk”, he’ll grumble.
That’s when I tell him to shut up and play his role.
Which is to say, yes, I did in fact write a song called “Let’s Get Drunk.” Well, the words at any rate. CB wrote the music for this little ditty and then I crammed as many lyrics as I could into it.
Attentive listeners may note that the song with the most obvious title in history manages to mention Thoreau. I never made it all the way through Walden, but I tried on two occasions and still managed to get a lot out of it.
Interesting tidbit, I actually called out other bands for using lyrics like “let’s get drunk”. I wrote this song before we did that interview, so I’m totally a hypocrite.
Last tidbit, two people in the world know me as “the grim reaper”.
…enough rambling. Let’s Get Drunk!
[Man, I can’t believe I never posted this tune. Here goes!
There are two parts to my brain. The creative part just keeps pumping out ideas and I do my best never to get in it’s way. Then there’s the second part of my brain, the editor. He likes to ruminate, to filter, to contextualize. He’s the one that hammers and polishes those raw ideas into something. He’s just as important to the process. But sometimes he gets a unhappy with his role in things. Sometimes he blanches at the ideas that the first part of my brain comes up with.
“That’s too obvious”, he’ll offer.
“Really? A song called about getting drunk”, he’ll grumble.
That’s when I tell him to shut up and play his role.
Which is to say, yes, I did in fact write a song called “Let’s Get Drunk.” Well, the words at any rate. CB wrote the music for this little ditty and then I crammed as many lyrics as I could into it.
Attentive listeners may note that the song with the most obvious title in history manages to mention Thoreau. I never made it all the way through Walden, but I tried on two occasions and still managed to get a lot out of it.
Interesting tidbit, I actually called out other bands for using lyrics like “let’s get drunk”. I wrote this song before we did that interview, so I’m totally a hypocrite.
Last tidbit, two people in the world know me as “the grim reaper”.
…enough rambling. Let’s Get Drunk!
]2
Let’s Get Drunk
music by c. bolton, lyrics by g. lindsay
A world of presets, predestination
shackles and handcuffs sold as customization
Thoreau spoke of quiet desperation
Temporary disablement of consciousness
our only means of celebration, drunkenness
desperate measures taken in the form of inaction
thoughts of individual self considered infractions
Abandon any sense of identity
we’re obsessed with false reality
the emperor is nude, why won’t we see?
We don’t believe in our own experience
Unless it’s on TV we’re indifferent
I guess I’ll chalk it up to mass naiveté
we’re watching an assault on creativity
Let’s Get Drunk!
The choice in front of us is painfully clear
abandon our lives or hide in fear
the cost of paranoia is just so dear
There’s no worse way to live then in fear of death
smell every rose you can until your last breath
but never forget that your end will surely come
make that old grim reaper have to catch you on the run
Let’s Get Drunk!
Nothing ever comes to those who patiently wait
if you’re still breathing then it’s not too late
don’t blame your inaction on the hands of fate
The goal of life is not to get to work on time
Don’t trade away your life for nickels and dimes
old death is hiding just around the bend
when you get there share a drink with him
Let’s Get Drunk!
[Man, I can’t believe I never posted this tune. Here goes!
There are two parts to my brain. The creative part just keeps pumping out ideas and I do my best never to get in it’s way. Then there’s the second part of my brain, the editor. He likes to ruminate, to filter, to contextualize. He’s the one that hammers and polishes those raw ideas into something. He’s just as important to the process. But sometimes he gets a unhappy with his role in things. Sometimes he blanches at the ideas that the first part of my brain comes up with.
“That’s too obvious”, he’ll offer.
“Really? A song called about getting drunk”, he’ll grumble.
That’s when I tell him to shut up and play his role.
Which is to say, yes, I did in fact write a song called “Let’s Get Drunk.” Well, the words at any rate. CB wrote the music for this little ditty and then I crammed as many lyrics as I could into it.
Attentive listeners may note that the song with the most obvious title in history manages to mention Thoreau. I never made it all the way through Walden, but I tried on two occasions and still managed to get a lot out of it.
Interesting tidbit, I actually called out other bands for using lyrics like “let’s get drunk”. I wrote this song before we did that interview, so I’m totally a hypocrite.
Last tidbit, two people in the world know me as “the grim reaper”.
…enough rambling. Let’s Get Drunk!
[Man, I can’t believe I never posted this tune. Here goes!
There are two parts to my brain. The creative part just keeps pumping out ideas and I do my best never to get in it’s way. Then there’s the second part of my brain, the editor. He likes to ruminate, to filter, to contextualize. He’s the one that hammers and polishes those raw ideas into something. He’s just as important to the process. But sometimes he gets a unhappy with his role in things. Sometimes he blanches at the ideas that the first part of my brain comes up with.
“That’s too obvious”, he’ll offer.
“Really? A song called about getting drunk”, he’ll grumble.
That’s when I tell him to shut up and play his role.
Which is to say, yes, I did in fact write a song called “Let’s Get Drunk.” Well, the words at any rate. CB wrote the music for this little ditty and then I crammed as many lyrics as I could into it.
Attentive listeners may note that the song with the most obvious title in history manages to mention Thoreau. I never made it all the way through Walden, but I tried on two occasions and still managed to get a lot out of it.
Interesting tidbit, I actually called out other bands for using lyrics like “let’s get drunk”. I wrote this song before we did that interview, so I’m totally a hypocrite.
Last tidbit, two people in the world know me as “the grim reaper”.
…enough rambling. Let’s Get Drunk!
]2
Let’s Get Drunk
music by c. bolton, lyrics by g. lindsay
A world of presets, predestination
shackles and handcuffs sold as customization
Thoreau spoke of quiet desperation
Temporary disablement of consciousness
our only means of celebration, drunkenness
desperate measures taken in the form of inaction
thoughts of individual self considered infractions
Abandon any sense of identity
we’re obsessed with false reality
the emperor is nude, why won’t we see?
We don’t believe in our own experience
Unless it’s on TV we’re indifferent
I guess I’ll chalk it up to mass naiveté
we’re watching an assault on creativity
Let’s Get Drunk!
The choice in front of us is painfully clear
abandon our lives or hide in fear
the cost of paranoia is just so dear
There’s no worse way to live then in fear of death
smell every rose you can until your last breath
but never forget that your end will surely come
make that old grim reaper have to catch you on the run
Let’s Get Drunk!
Nothing ever comes to those who patiently wait
if you’re still breathing then it’s not too late
don’t blame your inaction on the hands of fate
The goal of life is not to get to work on time
Don’t trade away your life for nickels and dimes
old death is hiding just around the bend
when you get there share a drink with him
Let’s Get Drunk!