Canned Applause

<h1> � </h1> <h1> Canned Applause </h1> <p> </a><br /> <i>Music C. Bolton, Lyrics Pickabar Copyright 2008</i> </p> <p> Old photographs <br />always stay the same <br />A cozy slice of time <br />bottled up in a frame </p> <p> but they&#8217;re unreliable <br />like memories in your brain <br />they tell the kind of lies <br />that might drive you quite insane </p> <p> Memories of the past <br />so gloriously false <br />like your drunken uncle <br />who stumbles and then falls </p> <p> hyperbole is dangerous <br />false praise should give you pause <br />because it turns to slander <br />don&#8217;t be damned by canned applause </p> <blockquote> <p> Don&#8217;t be &#8211; damned by canned applause!…

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It Don’t Matter What They Call You

<h1> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20it%20don’t%20matter.mp3">It Don&#8217;t Matter</a> </h1> <p> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20it%20don’t%20matter.mp3"><br /> </a> </p> <h1> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20it%20don’t%20matter.mp3">(What They Call You)</a> </h1> <p> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20it%20don’t%20matter.mp3"> </a> </p> <p> They&#8217;ll tell you that you are a failure<br /> say it&#8217;s all a matter of mental health,<br /> They&#8217;ll rip you to pieces if you let them<br /> just cause they&#8217;ve got glue to sell. </p> <p> It don&#8217;t matter what they call you,<br /> if you&#8217;ve got pride within yourself.…

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Vinyl Fetishists

<blockquote> <p> We are vinyl fetishists <br />There&#8217;s nothing we love better than digging in crates <br />Who loves vinyl? we love vinyl! <br />you&#8217;ll be hooked in one taste </p> </blockquote> <p> A little taste of magic <br />in a disc made out of plastic <br />the needle hits that spot <br />and your body turns spastic </p> <p> There&#8217;s something about the bass <br />each sound in it&#8217;s proper place <br />polyvinyl chloride <br />pushing sine waves right up in your face </p> <blockquote> <p> Chorus </p> </blockquote> <p> Hoping for the big score <br />never happens anymore <br />prices shooting through the roof <br />of every 2nd hand store </p> <p> Dollar&#8217;s weaker every day <br />records head the euro way <br />global market&#8217;s gone insane <br />every pawn shop&#8217;s got ebay </p> <blockquote> <p> Chorus </p> </blockquote> <p> The world is changing rapidly <br />we spend our time vapidly <br />an iWorld full of iDiots <br />all thinking iDentically </p> <p> There&#8217;s nothing wrong with mp3s <br />convenience or ease <br />but the moon&#8217;s turned Velveeta <br />and I&#8217;m still holding out for cheese </p> <blockquote> <p> Chorus </p> </blockquote> <p> [<a href="http://www.…

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Pinto Beans

<td valign="top" width="312"> <p> I&#8217;ve always loved Jamaican Music. Reggae, Rocksteady, Dub and even a little Ska and Dancehall. Some Ska. A little Dancehall. </p> <p> Jamaican music has always had a unique proclivity for digesting culture and synthesizing musical and cultural mutations. It was post-modern before post-modern existed. It challenged the rigid corporate concepts of originality and copyright before the internet had inspired those in the wider world to see that the emperor had no clothes.…

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Not That I&#039;ve Stopped Making Music

<blockquote> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20if%20not%20now%20then%20never.mp3"><br /> <h1> If Not Now Then Never </h1> <p> </a> <p> � </p> </p> <p> I&#8217;m much more of a coward than I&#8217;ve ever been a saint, <br />So I find myself embittered hands covered in yellow paint, <br />I muster up my best toothy grin to prove to her I don&#8217;t care, <br />While some rich kid in a zeppelin t-shirt runs his fingers through her hair.…

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