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    "Dung Beetle"  Parental Advisorygenre: Indie Pop/Lo Fi
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    Hostility, Self-loathing, and Zen...
    CD: Heaven's View Down   Label: Not on a label, Jack. I produced my own cd.
    Credits: McDowell

    Story Behind the Song
    Another G4 produced song, this was written in the lounge of my floor in my dorm building. It's pretty much a straight up rock song, but put in the indy/lo-fi category because, hey, Powerbook G4, man! The lyrics in this song don't really need explanation. It's pretty straightforward. It was motivated by just me walking around on my campus or in the city or wherever and being flooded with conflict when I when I approached attractive girls. Feeling inferior to them, and finding like faux-resolution to that little inner-quandry in hating them. It's one of those things that you just gotta realize by being honest with yourself, and letting just pass out of you.

    Lyrics
    Passing the pretty girls on 14th Street
    J. Crew tops and Diesel Jeans
    Probably looking down on me
    A homely kid without the means
    Hey, it's okay, you know, they're below me
    Insecure, with no sensitivity
    One's probably got an STD
    The scum and shit below my feet

    Now is the time
    Where I decide
    I'm an asshole
    Making no sense
    Truth ain't dispensed
    Just my flimsy ego
    Now is the time
    where i decide
    Oh yeah....

    That I'll Walk on, walk...
    Walk on, walk on, walk
    'til I'm untangled
    Walk on, walk on, walk...
    Walk on, walk on, walk
    till I'm untangled

    Malaise and ennui, can't see, all's beyond me
    Spoutin out nothin' but self-pity
    I'll see the winter in the spring
    and hack and cough while others sing
    Going online, killing time, a drug to feel fine
    But smileys and text don't get me high
    Kinda like some fucked goodbye
    where human contact seems to die

    Now I decide
    Yeah, I decide
    I'm a dung beetle
    In love with
    rollin' my shit
    instead of other people
    Now is the time
    Where I decide
    Oh yeah

    That I'll walk on, walk...
    Walk on, walk on, walk
    'til I'm untangled
    Walk on, walk...
    Walk on, walk on, walk
    til I'm untangled

    I'm gonna walk...

    Walk on walk....

    I'll walk...

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