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Gainsbourgian Dream
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Life Undeserving of Life
03:00
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History is made by great experiments;
every nation run according to a guiding
fantasy, the character of the people
and morality abiding.
When there’s a danger to one’s kind,
look no further from one’s own to find
life undeserving of life.
It’s the duty of the medical profession
to care for the welfare of the infirm,
though also to prevent the nation
from infection by their human germ.
Effective treatment can be then assigned
eliminate the defects among one’s kind –
life undeserving of life.
The unschoolable and unruly child
will cause disruption among citizens
when he grows up, so it’s best that now
he leave his family and friends.
At such an age, a person’s mind
already shows his fate defined:
life undeserving of life.
Half of those among us are, we will decide,
genetic parasites, who, for hosts, chose us
For our health, we must eliminate them,
and while we’re at it, those who oppose us.
Look around – it’s everywhere you’ll find
this menace, unless of course you’re blind:
life undeserving of life.
© 2016 Steve Fitch
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Paving Over
03:27
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replace the cool old stuff
with stupid new stuff
how much of this revision
will ever be enough?
how much more should I be
made to feel bereft?
when they’re done with it,
will there be anything left?
they’re paving over
the broken sidewalks of my youth
it’s good without reminders
on the other hand
that panorama of the old stuff
anywhere where i stand
the old times have not retained
a vital relevance
new crimes efface the old
by replacing evidence
they’re paving over
the broken sidewalks of my youth
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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A Wolf at the Dog Park
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life is out-of-whack
reality’s off-kilter
and time is out-of-joint
as though i’d spiraled
down this corkscrew
just to arrive at this point
like a wolf
at the dog park
howling when the dogs bark
now gathering detritus
from the demolition
and what just fell apart
to see if i can give it form
as though to give it meaning
or to say i’d made some art
like a wolf
at the dog park
howling
when the dogs bark
once, at greater liberty
i’d called no place a home
but then, it hadn’t mattered
now, if i’ve stayed-put
i haven’t settled-down
i have been fettered
like a wolf
at the dog park
howling
when the dogs bark
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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NYC85
03:14
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Worst day of your whole life smears
out flat across some 20 years
No one sees, and none knows why
Every day, wake up and die
Half-way human, not-quite man
esteemed different-from, so less-than
Ever peerless among peers
but your cred account is in arrears
Every day, wake up and cry
nothing ‘tween you and the sky
mocking you, who’d made a plan
that was different-from, so less-than
No one here’s as he appears
to learn their truths will take you years
Every day, wake up and sigh
“Who is worth it to ally?”
Cull the pack with which you ran
being different-from, so less-than
Their trip takes you where’e’r it steers
until the terminus appears
Disembark – but on you go
no longer traveling in their show
Their movie now is in the can
marked “Different-From, So Less-Than”
© 2020 Steve Fitch
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passionate about
next-level
next-gen
disruptive
sustainable
onboarding
mentoring
networking
empowed
going forward
on the ground
awesome
having said that being said with that said
proactive
leverage
inclusive
safe space
comfort zone
giving back
paying forward
outreach
reach out
diversity
trending
at the end of the day
having said that being said with that said
when having said that being said with that said
being said having said that said
being that having been said
© 2016 Steve Fitch
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8. |
He Got the Payoff
02:48
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there is no static
line between autonomous
and autocratic
it’s quite a surprise
when constant maintenance yields
a sudden demise
he’d been cursed
to war with neighbors
over who’d been there first
they could hardly care
in a few years, they’d move on
he’d still be there
living austerely
protecting his assets
but holding nothing dearly
but his own labor
not bothering to make friends
with more than one neighbor
for 35 years, he had a rough time of it
now he got the payoff,
but won’t enjoy a dime of it
© 2018 Steve Fitch
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9. |
Ritard
03:44
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how could i ever manage to manage to go back
and manage to get the big boys to cut me some slack?
what could i do, what would it ever take
to convince them that it’s in their interest
to give me a break?
it's not a matter of regaining face
nor begging retroactive grace
you’re a retard
go somewhere else
and if you ever get it together
don’t come back
there i went, whether i were ready or not
rarin’ to go show the big boys what i got
imitating those who were really doin’ it
but o’ course i had to go ‘n’ ruin it
i tried on every available attitude
eventually left standing with my inadequacy nude
you're a retard . . .
who the hell was it who should’ve taught me what was what
and make sure i’d know everything a big boy ought?
at this point, i can only sit back and reflect
on the everlasting mistakes i never could correct
the only way that i had ever learned
was by being ridiculed, humiliated and spurned
you’re a retard . . .
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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Grandfather Rock
05:01
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keep the look they recognize
it's even larger than your size
it's world-wide, you puer aeternus
they're sure they've heard it all
but scrawl another on the wall
'cause you've something more to learn us
stay relevantly publicized
block 'em when you're criticized
be sure keep unfazed by shock
grandfather rock
your fanbase is sensational
diverse and multi-generational
the snowball in full effect
the more you've gotten older
but it sometimes seems a boulder
running over everything it's wrecked
say that it's justifiable
whatever keeps you viable
because it helps you beat the clock
grandfather rock
for every printed t-shirt worn
by every fan who wasn't born
before your band's known pinnacle
there's a memory of how you were
when you were rather immature
but not yet vain or cynical
but show the new kids what is cool
even though it's really old-school
you've been around so long, you're now the block
grandfather rock
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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12. |
No One
04:32
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take an evening walk ’round former situations’ sites
with memories of with-whom on long-forgotten nights
and the places that you’d just had to show ‘em
before it was that you’d no longer know ‘em
returned to the origin, they ask what’s now wrong with me
i can’t tolerate them; they can’t get along with me
everything happened a long time ago
and that’s all that any of ‘em wants to know
thirty years with someone, then she died, now he’s alone
expecting me to sympathize and listen to him moan
but he’s no interest in knowing how bad it
gets for someone who has never had it
accelerating time, weeks now passing as had days
has let mistakes catch up with me, malinger in their stays
as though assigned to punish me for every sin
of someone whom i can’t recall i’d ever been
i have no one to bury me when i die
i have no one to comfort me when i cry
i have nothing, for no one to inherit
i have no life, and no one to share it
© 2016 Steve Fitch
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Thingama Bob
03:05
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No one comes to prominence
without the force of myth,
and people only go as far
as the people they are with.
Shit floats to the surface,
but the media make it seem
as though only the best of milk
could make such fine brown cream.
Try to do it otherwise,
but the system can’t be bucked.
Can’t we now admit that
Bob Dylan really sucked?
Market forces which exploit
our desires and our fears
prompt us as to what is “good”
and to get in line with peers.
It could be called conditioning,
but it’s really much more subtle,
as though, all one’s life, it’s fed
by drip-feed up the butthole,
like slightest strokes on gonads,
as in slo-mo we’re all fucked.
Ain’t it time we all admit
Bob Dylan always sucked?
Visit Woody Guthrie
as he’s dying in his bed,
and have it documented
to inherit all his cred,
and steal a poet laureate’s name
that doesn’t sound semitic,
and have a team of publicists
coaching every critic.
Fifty years ago, you shoulda
died beneath a truck,
but somehow, you’re still at it –
Bob Dylan, you still suck.
© 2016 Steve Fitch
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14. |
Human for Scale
03:18
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They live where we aren’t
and been there long before us
They frighten us away
When they can’t just ignore us
We believe they don’t exist
But they believe we’re pests
With no common sense nor manners
Tearin’ up the forests
Towering so fearsomely
Encountered on a trail
With human for scale
She’s a lowly stripper
Elevated on a stage
Like a goddess to be worshiped
Or a monkey in a cage
She does this for money
With incidental fun
Intimate with strangers
But she could be anyone
She sees a sea of penises
Who see a piece of tail
With human for scale
Grownups cryin-out for mama
Is the taste of human drama
Some existential terror
Moves us more than human error
So the oligarchs create
The problems that we love to hate
‘Cause they love to watch us wail
From far above the human scale
I’m like a father to a son
Correcting him in retrospect
Begging pardon for his broken
Rep to salvage, not protect
He repays his debts in parts
That just add-up to zero
With the interest accrued, but he’s
Turned out my little hero
I feel like a success
After having watched him fail
With human for scale
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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15. |
Stay Old
04:35
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party girl, the party's over
the empty bottle's on the floor
not much left for you to do in life
but you can't do that anymore
remember we were pioneers
blazing trails with what we did
we survived that blizzard
but we had to eat the kid
a moving-target mystery
educated arty loft dweller
somehow slumming underground
fucking punkrock in the cellar
never did i wonder
where your clues might lead to
i figured if i didn’t know
then i didn’t need to
that was summer
now comes the colder weather
young apart so long
let's stay old together
decades defying explanation
but to say "undoin’ damage"
it can take heroic effort
just to muddle through ’n’ manage
i wrote a song for you before
life intervened since then
let me sum it up: “i just want
to see you naked, again”
that was summer
now comes the colder weather
young apart so long
let's stay old together
© 2020 Steve Fitch
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17. |
Doya (Demix)
03:05
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woulda been nice to have known you when
it could have made a difference then
come full circle - does it ever close?
round and round - nobody ever knows
i wanna do ya
do it all to ya
and let you do
it all to me
i wanna know
all that you can show
and what no
one else can see
no more love songs to be sung
truth is wasted on the young
been betrayed and shocked and burned
that leave good things to be learned
i wanna do ya , , ,
we’ve been like us for a while
see the aging of our youthful style
perfection lost, i’ll take the substitute
i might not have liked you when you were cute
i wanna do ya . . .
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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Steve Fitch
The first 10 titles are compilations.
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