Outsmart the Fool

from PLANET NONSENSE by Tavo Carbone

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Written in Philadelphia PA Aug 2019
Voice/guitar recorded in Shaftsbury VT, ukulele/accordion in Burlington VT Aug-Sept 2019

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You get up in the morning and you shave your face
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
Dress up prim and proper to a particular place
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah

Must've been saying something
Before I stopped saying it before
Whatever it was that something
I won't be saying it no more

The downside's up if you stare straight ahead
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
"What would a self respecting person do?" is what She said
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah

I work so hard to expect nothing
It's the kind of life I can live with
The only thing the sun can do
Is cook my dreams into a puddle of cosmic myth

Money don't matter if there's contentment to scatter
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
You exercise daily but you keep getting fatter
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah

I don't mean the physical weight
I'm talking about the glutton hamster-wheel'd rat race
A good soldier knows their place
But the best of all can save their face

A working class hero is not something to be
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
Leave yourself more to give what is free
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
No no yeah, Yeah no no
Yeah no yeah no yeahhhh
No no no no no no no
Please noooo

Yeah, yeah, yeah

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from PLANET NONSENSE, released October 19, 2019
Voice, Guitar, Accordion, Ukulele - Tavo Carbone

Words / Music © Tavo Carbone 2019

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Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
Will tour again before the next Presidential transfer of power.

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