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My Brother Zebulon said it best, "We're all gonna die, sooner or later..." Once you climb outside the morbid slant, it's not so hopeless a perspective. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Dan Cray |
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Press 1 to hear this message again... |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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An ode to pharmaceuticals. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Sometimes the plea bargain sticks in your throat. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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A love song for the heroically under-loved. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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One for the drama queen. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Dan Cray |
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A disillusionment lullaby. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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A suburban anthem. |
CD: The Suburb E.P.
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) You fall down enough, concussion's a godsend. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Soundtrack to the hangover. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Drums by HammerHead |
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(Summer 1997) Frustration, release... women. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Inspired by a botched pregnancy test. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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(Spring 1999) An audio postcard. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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An expression of faith in one's own alcoholic charm. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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(Spring 1999) Boy meets the other girl |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1996) Love and death in under a minute and a half. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: Salad Days (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1996) A warning wrapped in half-hearted apology |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: Salad Days (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) Emotional dodgeball |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) Weird little summer song. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1996) Curiosity wrecked the bed, it closed my eyes and it turned your head. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) Written about a fat girl whose favorite color was yellow. She'd stayed back a year and drove many a stoned soul to school. This may not have been how her house burned down. |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) A song about the sad trendies. |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) God pisses me off from time to time. When he does, I ask him about it. We usually end up at a bar or two. This is the kind of conversation that generally has me waking him for church. |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) It's a bar we've all been to and hope we'll never end up at. |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Winter 1996-97) A man's gotta cut his hair when his god lets him down. -Sampson(coulda happened) |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) Just another song about getting old. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) For every story you've heard a thousand times. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) A sucker's lament. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) Me and god (he's the drunk one). |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) My own worst enemy. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) For every clown with a tatoo he regrets. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) Post-coital guilt. Well deserved. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) A lullabye. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) When Allyson Golec sings an asshole's song, it's inexplicably beautiful. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Sung By: Allyson Golec |
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(Summer 1997) This song was actually written a few years earlier, but the benefits of drinking one's self deaf deserve frequent heralding. Future husbands take heed. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) The bar I love for all the wrong reasons. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) I can't remember why I wrote it, but it still hurts. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) There's a time for talk, there's a time for sleep, and goddamn it, you look tired. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Boy meets girl, tastes faith, finds everything he's learned, he learned too late. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999)Fine, we'll sue for damages, I'm too tired to apologize tonight. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) God rains, it cuts like your paper dolls. The silhouette charms till you see the blood. You never feel the paper cut. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Pour me out damp and cold, When the bitter runs dry, there's forlorn, weak, and sick, to fill our glasses with. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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It's a locket full of love, in a pocket full of hate. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Recorded with N-Track, HammerHead sat in on drums. |
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(Spring 1999) You can call it yet another schizophenic bout, you can color me drunk, You can color me sick, Just color me in, because I'm fading out. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Virulence bends, it buries its head in need. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Maybe I'm sick, or just a little bit colder, But tonight you've cried on the wrong shoulder. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Hail, holy mother Bloody Mary. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1999) Twenty-hundred minutes of pre-recorded bitchings, taped ejaculations, and drunken confessions... It's a wash. |
MP3.com CD: How's My Driving? - buy it!
CD: How's My Driving
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: The Word: Overseer P.W. Reed |
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You only gave up what you couldn't hack.Monday Morning Quarterback, you suck. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1996) You brim, and I'm empty, I bailed while you were sleeping.I've been bailing all along, and now that part of me is gone. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1996) She cooks it up and slips it in. And the feedings begin. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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It's a strange ending to the same old scene. |
MP3.com CD: The Salad Days - buy it!
CD: The Salad Days
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(spring 1996) You can get by, but the bullshit never ends. A good man's vices are his only friends. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) She's a corrugated pristine chapel, with rat-trap, bedroom eyes. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) And she says, "I could've saved Jesus from himself." |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) Just follow your head to the end of the bed,We'll chase our nightmares home. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) It's a short, sharp shove from want to need, from lust to love. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Spring 1996) That wasn't what I meant to say, it was only meant to hurt. |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Sometimes, terra cotta's just clay |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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the widow can't be found,could be drunk, could be drowned,could be slamming old Dan's pine door. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Slide Guitar by Dave Mirabella |
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I wrote this a few years ago about my friend Dawn, a woman who never seemed to notice her own grace and beauty. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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I plucked version of the origional hammering |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Love song with a splash of bitter |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Highschool reminiscence at the hometown pub, 252 Elm in Westfield, Ma. Home to generations of happy grads. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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The apology arrives, and you're even more afraid. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat guy rock
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Composed about six years ago while stumbling through Fitchburg at four in the morning. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Break the skin, and graft the bone,Just clean me up and take me home. |
MP3.com CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay - buy it!
CD: Terra Cotta's Just Clay
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Back up Vocals by Jen Masho |
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When it comes to women, every man's a defendant in a futile case before a rigged and merciless jury. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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Comparing the human condition to one of those annoying travel games, while praising the path of least resistance. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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When I wrote it, it was about the parents of the 70's. Now, sad and strangely enough, it's about us. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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A love song for the sad and beautiful local whore. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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A drunk's daily affirmation. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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A vain attempt at seducing an amateur poetess after her open-mike nightmare. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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Sappy Love(sick) song. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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Instrumental for an angel. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Curtain call in love's theater of the absurd. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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All Hook |
MP3.com CD: She's All By Myself - buy it!
CD: She's All By Myself (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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A stripped down version of the origional, recorded live on the porch outside Rubber Room. |
CD: Dan Cray Unhugged
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(Winter 1996-97) A drunk's drinking song. |
MP3.com CD: Wetbrain - buy it!
CD: Wetbrain (cassette)
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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(Summer 1997) Me as my wife explaining me to me. |
MP3.com CD: Foul Berth - buy it!
CD: Foul Berth
Label: Fat Guy Rock
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Recorded live in the Rubber Room. |
CD: Dan Cray Unhugged
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My good friend Dave Mirabella asked me to write the lyrics to this melodic masterpiece of his, and was gracious enough to let me post it on my page. Click the links tab to hear more of daves magic. |
Credits: Dave Mirabella wrote, played and recorded all the music. I just added the words. |
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A slash and burn approach to relationship cultivation. |
MP3.com CD: Slider Game - buy it!
CD: Slider Game
Label: Fat Guy Rock
Credits: Inebriated spoken word by Nathan Graziano, appearing courtesy of the Green Bean Press. |
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