"All My Friends Are Crazy (Live)" genre: Rock
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	This is a live version of our rock opera "All My Friends Are Crazy". All My Friends Are Crazy is a rock opera performed as a series of humorous narratives about various people that we have known throughout the years that really struck us as being not quite right based on their behavior.
	CD: All My Friends Are Crazy Credits: Pfiesteria
	Story Behind the Song We came up with the concept of doing a series of vignettes about the strange people we have known. It was implemented through a round-robin beer-induced improvisational jam session where the song was composed pretty much on the spot in its present form, with the lyrics of each segment being composed by each of us in rotation. We liked the way it turned out the first time so we decided to go back and redo it and try to clean it up but not really change anything substantial. Lyrics 1. Prologue We pass by people like some ships in the night And some of them we see they aren't quite right Memories become hazy But I've come to one conclusion All my friends are crazy 2. Morocco Gary (A cousin of a friend of Remo) Gary was a cousin of a friend of mine I didn't know him very well at the time He was kind of bizarre, but that's the way most people are So I did not guess that he was insane Because he seemed to be like the rest of us And I know it's kinda hard to tell when someone's berserk If they don't have abnormal behavior right in front of you. But he did display some behavior that I could not understand And that's because his mind was stretched out like a rubber band And it snapped... right in front of my mom, It was like -- a bomb had dropped out of the sky The fucker went berserk and I got no reason why What led up to his going insane Was a trip to Morocco in the November rain It was kind of stupid now that I look back But they were gonna go up a mountain track And raise cannabis -- it sounds kind of stupid I know But hey -- they were young and they did not know; That the growing season was many months away And they kinda missed the boat They ran out of money and they got sick Gary was left behind Anyway, Gary got left behind and he was out of his mind He was 8000 miles away with no place to stay And no money -- I'm telling you babe its not funny To find yourself in North Africa with no money; nowhere to go -- Well you're bound to hook up with some guy named Luiggio Who made an offer that day to smuggle dope to the USA And you know it was hash oil And he did it and didn't get foiled And I never saw him again All my friends are crazy 3. PK (Paul's college roommate) PK was his name -- he lived to play basketball He really liked women he really liked em all He really liked women but he didn't like classes He was the great white hope 50 points a game Got a free full ride to save school pride But he never got to play because he had plans on the side We lived in the dorm -- he was my roommate He liked to skip class every day He never went to class he would party off his ass Party all night long till the break of dawn Then he'd sleep all day and he'd do it again After 2 years of this he got expelled So he moved on out to live in Bothell He sold acid from a house that was like a brothel When you rise real high then you sink real low Down all the way and then one day He lost a bet playing Russian Roulette I never saw him again All my friends are crazy 4. Poor Charley (A friend of Marc) Charley -- he was a friend of mine A real good one I could count on almost any time Though Charley couldn't see the pain It's kind of a short story Cause once Charley got into his weakness -- his Pandora Box; He kind of went on the other side I saw Charley many years later Charley came up to our place and we did try to make him a place but the females couldn't make room for Charley Poor Charley We knew old Charley would come through So Charley he went home And I never saw him again All my friends are crazy 5. Smudge (Remo's old band members) I gotta friend his name is Smudge He doesn't like to pack -- pack a lot of fudge He's just a boy from southern Maryland Who is guilty of a lot of sins but if you know you must A whole lot of people that you might trust Are guilty of the same kind of shit Its just that they got rich from it And he did not -- matter of fact he got -- Naught Maybe 60 minutes could do a show On the most creative mother [shut your mouth] that I've ever known and he could be what he ought to be And not a.. a slug like me I don't know where I could go with this But I think I've been here before Maybe 60 minutes could do a show On the stupidest bastard Hey! That's me you know I'm just another.... mother who used to be in #6 There's another guy -- Oh my God! He's really messed up Matter of fact he's sewn together Just before every practice we'd have to Dredge him up from the bottom of a lake He's an arsonist on the take his name is Land-Phil And he's a real demented psychopath The kind of guy who'd like to kill you with an axe That's the #6 band they're all messed up. They never got a record contract well they sure deserved one And I never saw that band again All my friends are crazy 6. Bender (The drummer from Paul's old band -- do we see a pattern here?) This guy I knew was a bender He played the drums like a real big spender He could sing pretty well which was strange for a drummer bummer) He had delusions of being a star But he was a slug and he never got too far You know Salt Lake City's a rock and roll loss - 'cause the Mormons are there and the band gathered moss. So he took the hint to finally skedaddle. He packed up and moved his ass to Seattle. It was the time of Nirvana's beginning of grunge. He moved in with a friend to live like a sponge. When he owed his friend several months rent He moved out to the wilderness and off he went Why do these things always happen to friends? You know I never saw him again All my friends are crazy 7. Charley's Strange Dream (I guess the dude was really crazy) Charley he was a friend of mine He sported the fashion of the time Hendrix and all our connects we shared Charley took the other road -- the window path Through the pain --the windowpane I liked Charley but he changed so much He couldn't stay in tune -- I had to leave the room. Charley couldn't hold a tune at all We shared hours of listening to Fleetwood Mac In the magic tracks Just too tired It's OK for a little while but poor old Charley he took and tried the trial On the other side of the windowpane Is what Charley's whole kind of a twisted mess He did confess that he was Charley my insane friend He walked out that door All my thoughts and more He was a little strange But that's... that's the last I seen of him All my friends are crazy 8. Epilogue All my friends are crazy Maybe I am too Just like you

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