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And That Will Be How It Will Be

by 80 Foots

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My Stars 02:02
On the day I was born, The unalterable stars altered. If I decided to sell lamps, It wouldn’t get dark till the day I died. Some stars. Whatever I do, I’m a failure before I begin. If I suddenly decided to sell shrouds, People would suddenly stop dying. Lyrics Copyright © Robert Mezey, 1973. (We have made every effort to seek the author's permission for use of his text.)
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Now comes the time when trembling on its bough Every flower fumes its scent Sounds and smells twist the evening firmament Melancholy waltz and languorous vertigo! Every flower fumes its scent The violin shakes like a heart full of woe; Melancholy waltz and languorous vertigo! The sky is sad and fine like an enshrinement. The violin shakes like a heart full of woe A tender heart that hates the void, black and spent! The sky is sad and fine like an enshrinement. The sun has drowned in its blood, thick and slow A tender heart that hates the void, black and spent! The lustrous past gathers up every echo! The sun has drowned in its blood, thick and slow Your memory glitters in me resplendent!
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I know the way the other friars all look down at me Clucking at my drunkenness from in their dry eternity I hope they all choke on their tea I wish I could remember the rhymes the Lord had sent The morning starlings mimicked whistling winter in their merriment I was distracted--I don’t know where they went Brother John says God is fed up with my attitude Well he started it Walked straight up to the coastline of my sour mood And then he parted it For all I care you can all dive in the wishing well But if you daredevils want to bring yourselves --and tell us all About the things you did when you were there When you stopped being you caught in your snare Who will sing the lies that you bring back as souvenirs I just want to inscribe the lines that make the world resound If you knew how hard it was to concentrate with you around God bless the day that you are drowned The chanting in the halls has just become another din The tantrum of the bells is how a demon lets the day begin Why won’t some demon just let some tigers in Brother John says God is fed up with my attitude Well he started it, he started it And now he saunters through the vineyard in beatitude Like he outsmarted it For all I care you can all dive in the wishing well Put on your stocking caps and cast your trusted summon Spell and maybe you can have a starfish for a friend And you can make the oaken tree to bend Blow bubbles till your ventricles distend While I scratch on this vellum in the hall of my wits’ end
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Shore Leave 03:59
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Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love, And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields, And brown ants in the little wells beneath them, And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
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Too Happy 03:00
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Mornin' come and Maria's gone And it's early in the morning. Oh she's gone and I can't go And it's early in the morning. Mornin' come and Maria's gone And it's early in the morning. Never could I know her mind And it's early in the morning. Mornin' come and Maria's gone And it's early in the morning. Trouble, trouble is my name And it's early in the morning. Mornin' come and Maria's gone And it's early in the morning.
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I know where I’ll eventually find somebody dead At the bottom of the basement stairs Their legs cocked over their head And a box of books of matches from various bars Scattered on the floor like incubant stars And a half ring of keys And a jar that’s spit open I believe the world eventually Will be free of Man And crows and wolves and army ants Will run it best as they can And no one will enjoy the smell of the air And all will live and die and no one will care And the fire in the sky Will burn through the surface I think that I’ll eventually Turn on those I love And fear and greed and usury Will smile on me from above And i will sit alone and wonder at how Clean I used to be - How free I am now And I’ll eat all I kill And not read the papers And that will be how it will be

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released December 21, 2018

Emmy Bean (Voice, Ukulele)
T-Roy Martin (Voice, Ukulele, Guitar, Trombone)
Chris Schoen (Voice, Guitar, Banjo )
Joey Spilberg (Bass)

John Szymanski (Bass on “Epistle to the Labyrinthians”)
Engineered and Mixed by John Szymanski at Maestro-Matic & Brass Pajama
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic
Cover art by Dave Buchen

Ⓟ 2018 80 Foots
Songs by Emmy Bean © 2018 Beansome (ASCAP)
Songs by T-Roy Martin © 2018 (ASCAP)
Songs by Chris Schoen © 2018 Blooms Unbearable (ASCAP)

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80 Foots Chicago, Illinois

80 Foots, the world's only End Times Vocal Trio, started out making songs from poems, and have steadily grown a repertoire of songs that that harvests from old-time, early American, and international music forms to meditate on death, sadness, and falling down stairs. ... more

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