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Mr. Nothing
03:28
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Nowhere to go here
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
No one I know here
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
No one wants to know me
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Only Hell below me
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Was it supposed to be this way?
Why keep waking up each day?
Getting used to it
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
How does one do it?
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Iow should I play it?
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
I can't but say it
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
We know society's agreed
Despise a man who is in need
I'm keeping in touch
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
No one else does, much
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Stone around your neck
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Parasite or paycheck
I'm nothing – I'm lonely
Is this to be the way it was
with no reason but "because?"
© 2023 Steve Fitch
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2. |
Paradigm Dropout
01:33
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Why wonder what I do it for?
Selling my essence would make me a whore.
How can you market your soul?
Give them the donut, but sell them the hole.
Why worry that I’m not like others?
I never said they were my sisters and brothers.
Affinities fall as they may;
I can’t help having been born this way.
There is no shame
in not pursuing fame.
Why apologize for being different
from everyone who vies to be significant?
It already sets me apart
to know the difference between commerce and art.
The handshakes and codified games
of finished behaviors and family names,
and what’s semiotically vogue,
would like to believe they’re defining the rogue.
It’s no copout
to be a paradigm dropout.
© 2023 Steve Fitch
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3. |
People Food
03:46
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Oh here she comes
all pink and nude
but she can’t let you eat people-food
She turns to the girl
does something lewd
You know she can’t let you eat people-food
You hadn’t known she was a dyke
but you can watch ‘em if you like
You can protest
sit there and brood
but you know we can’t let you eat people-food
It’s the way it is
not just your attitude
that’s why we can’t let you eat people-food
You were born into the caste
that gets the leftovers served last
Always out of reach is where it stays
except for table scraps on holidays
Everywhere you go
whatever you try to exude
they’ll know not to let you eat people-food
They’re just being astute
not being rude
They know they’re not supposed to give you people-food
They don’t know a Sigma from an Omega
If you’re not their Alpha, you’re their begga
© 2023 Steve Fitch
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5. |
Damn Me Okay
02:44
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There is no sense
in speaking in defense
of proclivities that
are only human
I'm still not too old
to be commonly told
that I could have
any sort of woman
I've been with them
Couldn't win with them
so spiritually
I'm still a virgin
I need someone
compassionate and fun
The human in me
is now emergin'
I was told God will hate
me if I ever fornicate
and never forgive
having adulterous sex
So God damn me, okay?
Just take my soul to pay
I'll take Christian women
up to their necks
© 2023 Steve Fitch
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7. |
Her Forever
04:15
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8. |
So Hard (EZ Version)
03:30
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You’re such a piece o’ work
some say that you’re a jerk
and others just don’t want to say it
You'd told me right up front
that you could be a cunt
and left that in my hands to weigh it
That was a test of nerve
You’ll get what you deserve
I’m gonna miss you so hard
You’re strange in every way
but I think that’s okay
as long as I know what I’m getting
I know what comes with age
and being at the stage
of life before the Sun is setting
and also having clung
to that that which keeps one young
I’m gonna miss you so hard
You know that excellence
is its own recompense
but that one has to give it credit
I know that you had felt
likewise below the belt
as I had, but we had to edit
our sentiments, to stay correct
but now, I’m half-erect
I’m gonna miss you so hard
© 2023 Steve Fitch
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9. |
Seal Rock
06:07
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10. |
Something New
03:33
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This is something new
unlike what you always knew
Just a means to get me through
an extinction event
An earthquake's rubbled ruin
a volcano's lava spewin'
despite what I was doin'
to stave off and prevent
Nature will wreck as it will
Creative forces also kill
regardless of who pays the bill
Some young jerk who then was me
did some things that don't agree
with what I now would see
as what right things to do are
Evolution changes
us as circumstance arranges
but through it all, what's strange is
I’m more different than you are
Will this come full circle, or will
it leave space to never fill
and another debt unpaid yet still?
A seed of memory is sown
from which a legacy is grown
Reputation takes on its own
life as can be slanted
The truth that you might resist
is that I was the catalyst
for benefits that still persist
and which you take for granted
I know quite well what I did
© 2020 Steve Fitch
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11. |
Omnimpotence
04:00
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12. |
A Woman Called a Loser
03:57
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Whatever happened to that girl
who'd seemed so far above you?
The one so far out of your league
that she would surely never love you
She turned out to be
a cokehead and a boozer
She'd never heard a woman
called a "loser"
Where now is that girl whom dating
had felt then like such a struggle
who'd even laughed about the number
of the men that she could juggle?
She'd had options; now she is
a beggar, not a chooser
but none still would dare
call her a "loser"
You know, that girl you'd felt had been
your wife before you'd met
and for whom you've failed to find
a viable replacement yet?
She got married, and her many
husbands did abuse her
Don’t tell her that sounds like
she’s a "loser"
Still, you wish could have been
one of the many men she'd wed
or at least among the many
whom she'd deigned to give her head?
She'd warned you, then, that she would
hate each man who screws her
knowing that she’d not be
called a "loser"
© 2021 Steve Fitch
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15. |
Wrong Me
05:00
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There was no doubt whether I should go there
There were people I could say I know there
So many would have killed to be there
and rather see themselves than me, there
More to that scene than they could see
Right place, right time, wrong me
Right into the middle of it when I got there
In the soup with all the others in the pot there
All the people who could never get there
can't believe whom it was I'd met there
I’m their separation by a sole degree
Right place, right time, wrong me
All the golden opportunities abound there
as though just left out to lie around there
but for which so many come to fight, there
what came right to me didn't feel right, there
Can't feel that I deserve what I get for free
Right place, right time, wrong me
If you want to go pursue your dreams there
remember nothing may be what it seems there
Hard work may be all you'll say you do there
if things look too easy to be true there
It's okay not to be a celebrity
Right place, right time, wrong me
© 2021 steve fitch
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16. |
Throwaways Suite
20:00
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