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The Unbearable Tragedy of John E. Common

by Black Ocean Parking Lots

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1.
Summer Job 01:44
Hot sun in the middle of the summer months building cookie-cutter homes with the immigrants my friends want to stay out all night long and I can’t ‘cause I got a job How long must I put up with this bullshit? Why must I work so damn hard? While the boss plays golf Should I just put in my two weeks and quit? I’m gonna think about it Hot girls and they’re barely wearing anything I can’t talk ‘cause I never even get a break My friends get high all day long and I can’t ‘cause I got a job How long must I put up with this bullshit? Why must I waste all my time Making money for the man (making money for you) Yeah you can take this job and you can shove it, boss
2.
In the dark, at the park I can feel where you are And it don’t matter about the show ‘cause you know about the after-party Oh Lord I feel like maybe you are the one I mean with you girl, I’d even become vegan All because your brainy aptitude uh huh, that brainy aptitude, uh huh Dropping names like Jean-Paul Sartre I can tell that you are oh-so-smart ‘cause you know about Thoreau well I guess I can call you an intellectual I’m in love with your IQ and I never mind you showing off that brainy aptitude uh huh, that brainy aptitude, uh huh With conviction, never ‘fraid to voice your opinion like when you called my favorite books self-indulgent, shallow and derivative Flashing the diction when you’re cutting down the competition Using logic and your axioms you’re god’s gift and I feel like I got something to prove I guess, I just can’t keep up with your brainy aptitude **************** **************** Well, I’m feeling ready, baby It’s been a week Or a month or maybe two And how I want your body But I don’t even know if I cross your mind Because every time we set a date Something always gets in the way Can’t tell if you’re running late Or are you really running away I’m the one who wants to love you if you’d love me And come on, girl You know I'd make you oh-so-happy If you want me one way I’ll be one way, baby If you call me, girl You know I come so fucking fast La de da de da, you say But something always gets in the way Can’t tell if you’re running late Or are you really running away I’m the one who wants to love you if you’d love me And come on, girl You know I make you oh-so-happy If you want me one way I’ll be one way, baby If you call me, girl You know I come so fucking fast
3.
When God is alone He talks to Himself And miracles they happen As if they’re done by someone else And you know He don’t need your help When Death has a slow day He lingers on the pot His mind starts to wander And then He touches Himself just like you and me, everybody and when He does it, He’s thinking about you (about who?) you, motherfucker ******************** ******************** But I’m feeling like a cosmonaut Alien on a pale blue dot And I think it’s ‘cause I just forgot That it’s so hard to try You know it’s hard to try Got me walking down a very fine line Tracing back upon the origin of time Trying to find, I’m trying something to find But it’s so hard to find You know it’s so goddamn hard to find (woah woah woah) All this time I’ve been looking for god But it’s so hard to find You know it’s hard to find
4.
Time has collapsed And the world just caved in At least I know something is Happening right now And I’m not sure I can see a point to this phenomena we call existence Pain is a strange thing It seems like you gotta feel it to live Waiting on the Vicodin to kick in Waiting on the sleeping pills to kick in Love I’m sorry I forgot to say goodbye I’ll see you in another time ********* ********* {[(ineffable)]} ********* ********* And when I awoke, I was alone (couldn’t remember my name) Lying face down on the floor I could feel it in my blood I could feel it in my bones (tremendous pain) Oh why did you have to go? (woah woah woah I do not know) Oh why did you have to go? (I don’t know, I don’t wanna know how you could how you could up and go) Oh why did you have to go? I’ve been carrying this weight oh lord How all my loving wasn’t good enough I want you to know, I want you to feel my pain ‘cause my heart’s a breaking And I know you don’t feel a — But oh, my Lord, this board is more than I afford I can’t take any of these insults or putdowns anymore Woah woah woah I do not know (Oh why did you have to go?) I’ve been carrying this weight oh lord How all my loving wasn’t good enough I want you to know, I want you to feel my pain ‘cause my heart’s a breaking And I know you don’t feel a — 
{[(ineffable)]}
5.
Well, I had to get a job (turning eighteen) To feed my little daughter Nicole (teen pregnancy) But my town is so broke To get health insurance I had to join the armed forces Now they got my on patrol on those dusty roads old dusty roads Shaken awake in the middle of the night All I see is the white of their eyes They point a direction; they don’t say why I think I might die tonight I feel the flames; I hear the horizon I think I might die tonight Well, I’m not going without a fight I grab my fire; I set it alight Then I got some R&R And they sent me back home But my town is still broke And this car is gonna explode ‘cause in my mind, I’m still on patrol On those dusty roads those dusty roads I gave my life; I sold my soul I left it behind on those old dusty roads *************** *************** Well, then the war was over , or rather, the conflict deescalated, yeah They said “go on home, boy; they don’t throw parades for heroes no more” And I decided to follow that order So I’m going home (‘cause where else have I got to go?) But Lewisberg, Ohio Lewisberg, Ohio Lewisberg, Ohio I roll (woah woah woah) There ain’t nothing here but churches and gas stations And a chain grocery fifteen miles away Well, I can understand watching a little bit of television But do you gotta do it all goddamn day? I’m never leaving home ‘cause I ain’t got nowhere else to go But Lewisberg, Ohio Lewisberg, Ohio Lewisberg, Ohio, baby You gotta go local, baby it’s the best you ever had D.I.Y. artistan meth lab Just gotta help the cook and go to Walgreens buy some Sudafed And show your ID ‘cause Lewisberg, I was born and raised Lewisberg, I’ve been drunk for days, oh yeah
6.
Love, how I wish it’d burn perpetually hot But time has a way of making things go stale And then they rot (They rot, they rot, they rot You better believe it’s gonna rot, because it will) I want to make love in a public bathroom like we used to (Remember that time, whew, it was stinky) Don’t you know we’ll have to become registered sex offenders if we get caught? (Yeah, that might be true, but you know it ain’t sexy) I can’t stop thinking how things used to be Baby, it’s not you, but I’m still in love with a memory Love, if we don’t change our ways A couple of days, I will be gone ‘cause I don’t want to waste my whole life holding onto something that wasn’t even there in the first place if you actually think about it I can’t stop thinking how things used to be Baby, it’s not you, but I’m still in love with a memory I can suddenly see This emptiness in me You could fill it with the whole world And I would still feel woah (la la la la) woah (la la la) woah
7.
The pressures of my job are so demanding By the end of the week, my nerves are just totally fried It’s Friday night, gotta get out and find someone to take home And in the end it leaves no time for making art Slam my head against the wall I’m just so sick of it all I’m just a Sisyphus Pushing the rock ‘cause love is a pain that hurts one and us all Because desire is the root to your fall The voices in my head are so demanding (woah woah woah) Come on, you stupid piece of shit Can’t you ever do anything right? (no no no) But nothing ever goes the way I planned it Even failed my attempts at the suicide Slam my head against the wall I’m just so sick of it all I’m just a Sisyphus Pushing the rock ‘cause love is a pain that hurts one and us all Because desire is the fruit to your fall ****** ****** {([music]}) ******** ******** Why why why why why Why did you have to go? Oh woah woah woah I guess we’ll never know Oh woah woah woah How you could up and go I I I I don’t ever want to know Why why why why why Why did you have to go?
8.
Time, it had a beginning So it only feels rational that It has an ending And I don’t know what is gonna happen But I don’t trust anyone who says they do I just don’t wanna be alone When the end comes ********* ********* Thousands of meteorites Light up the sky And I hadn’t noticed them I was lost in your eyes And you (la la la la la) And I (la la la la la la) If these are the end times, won’t you stay by my side? The cities are burning down We’ll be warm by the fire And you (la la la la la) And I (la la la la la la)
9.
Stuck in the ways of our fathers Busting our asses, trying to make a dollar Now I gotta steal from my brothers Just to get by; just to get by Back in the days, everything was better People sure were kinder The dollar was stronger Now I gottta take medications Just to get by; just to get by; just to get by You know my love for you’s so strong But everything I do turns out wrong (ooooooooooooooooooooooooo) This is goodbye; I don’t know why I don’t know why You know my love for you’s so strong But everything I do Everything I say Every single thing Turns out wrong ********** ********** Oh no Is this the end? All is the fall Hell no We’ll keep fighting On and on All is all All is the wall All is the crawl Tell me the truth Is this the end?

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released July 11, 2014

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