FAWM: "Peculiar Ideas"

Peculiar Ideas

1 week ago by @headfirstonlyMod

Peculiar Ideas

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Liner Notes

Me: "I'm not going to let the way things are going get to me."
Morgan Freeman, narrating: "As you are about to discover, things did not turn out that way."

Lyrics

Unexplained phenomena; hybrid DNA
Elvis will be making his next comeback any day
Economic policy of "hope it goes away"
Everyone accepting everything they say

Far be it for me to try and drive the point home,
But quite frankly, have you lost your goddam minds?

Some days it seems reality
has started shifting gears
Everything's collapsing,
coming down around our ears
You don't need me to tell you
this is going to end in tears
And all that we'll have left
are some peculiar ideas

UFO disclosure isn't proof, it's so undignified
"Don't expect to hear the truth, the news is falsified!"
Eager little beavers, all unqualified
Government by horoscope, nothing justified

They want to wipe out certainty so only doubt persists
and like the Loch Ness Monster, consensus won't exist
Instead it gets dictated by malignant narcissists
and all the rest of us can do is quietly resist

Comments

@heliosonorous 1w

Cool shift from pre chorus to chorus, the riffage and drums have the attitude to match the lyrics, really like the feel of this one!

@philkmills 1w

Great sound, and I love "Government by horoscope" as a description.

(We in Canada once had a Prime Minister who was guided by advice from his dead mother and several of his dead dogs. He was no worse than many others.)

@sailingmagpie 1w

I really like the tempo shift on "drive the point home" and there are some great lines in here. I particularly enjoyed the Loch Ness Monster part.

@coolparadisoMod 1w

Oo malignant narcissists! Great music track accentuates the words really! Yup I feel like I am from another planet! I wish my mind wasn’t lodgical!

@lmnomusic 1w

i love the lyrics. i love the 80’s sound. so cool!

@ayeahmur 1w

You've got to let it out somehow, Chris. And this is as great an expression of horrified frustration as I've heard in a while. The lyrics are right on point. Love the punchy groove of the chorus. And what is that big sonic boom at the start of the last verse?!

@b3nut 1w

Yeah you've nailed the Zeitgeist well here. Love the groove and the 80's vibe you've created...this is well done.

@ampersandman 1w

You so much captured this feeling of now: Everything is falling apart and people seem to just have lost their minds. I really like the funky drum beat.

@billwhite51 1w

excellent writing in this end-state of the world address. it could go on for several more verses and you still couldnt tell the whole of it. the song is a literate version of what apocalyptic metalheads have been barking about for decades, but rarely in a coherent, human way. we dont need to work hard to decipher the message here. but we really should act on it.