Survival

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lyrics

What do you do when you've somehow painted your life into a corner?
Tied your hands to a man you're afraid to leave?
He swears to me that there's no-one else, but I know better
I was a fool to think what happened to her wouldn't happen to me

So I laughed at all his jokes
Kept his darkest secrets close
Let myself dissolve away like rising smoke
I thought I was made for you
So what do I become
When you've decided that you're through?

I lived my life for love
I lived my life for nothing
But I don't want to die
I want to survive
Please don't let this be the end
I can be more, more than I have been
I want to survive

The Ouija board sits out there, our private joke, on the bottom shelf
I hear a clatter, and the planchette's moving all by itself
It spells a message from beyond
"Turn the radio on"
(T-U-R-N I-T O-N)

And a voice pours out, it's her
Singing like a bird
Like a bird
She says, "We were never friends
But I know that it was him
That brought me to my end
It's not your fault

I died for love
I lived my life for nothing
But you don't have to die
I want you to fly
Please don't end up like me
You can still be more, more than I could be
I want you to survive

So go, go and buy a gun,
Buy a one-way ticket to anywhere
Just run
Call the cops
They'll find out soon enough
The dog next door is in the yard
Digging up my bones from the earth"

I tell her,
"I don't want to go on like this
I want to live a life
That passes the Bechdel test
I want to change the world
Make art, learn to play the bass guitar
Learn the shapes of trees, learn the names of stars

I want to listen to old songs
Echoing beyond the grave
Think of all the lives they saved
When they said, 'You're not alone'
Like a message from a Ouija board
Spelling it out for me
You're worth something without him
It's not too late, you're free"

credits

from Message Received, released April 18, 2020
Guest starring the Glenn Case Birthday BBQ Choir (happy birthday, Glenn!):
Glenn Case
Don Hawkins
Rachael Layne
Dawn Sanger
Kirsten Darling
Travis Powell
Nick Harrington
Fen Wolf

And with a very special dog solo in C# from:
Siouxsie-Q Case
Roxie Case
Glenn's neighbor's unnamed junkyard dog

Also featuring the delightful saxophone stylings of Mr. Nathan Tredinnick from Something To Do, Cribshitter, The Shabelles, and The Arkoffs, among other fine Southern Wisconsin musical concerns

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Vowl Sounds Matlock, UK

Transatlantic dream-pop from Huan-Hua (Gentle Brontosaurus, Red Tape Diaries, TL;DR, Miscellaneous Owl) from Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and Tom Morton (Lardpony, Vom Vorton, Of Mice and Mental Arithmetic) from Matlock, UK

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