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Sad Moments in Modern Music

by Cousin Dud

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1.
The Shill 02:52
We’re all in this together So at least lie and say you are my friend See I can only show you What you need to see So as to not turn you off from me I know I said I’d promise To be there til the start Of the end We’re all in this together so at least lie and say you are my friend You are my friend.
2.
Big Screen 04:16
white cat caught in a curtain as her gown hangs to the ground beside the gravel road he's runnin down cuz he's the one who likes to be in charge of his own magazine she done it to him years before but paid the price and nevermore until today she caused quite a scene, she's flipping through those pages as he screams I'll run away, until I hit the big screen black dog in the doorway of the circus tent she calls her home away from home but when she's home she never ever calls it while she's there she'll hang her hair down on her knees she aims to please sells fantasies to any man who'll buy it I'll run away until I hit the big screen papers print the pictures of the padlocks on the palace gates dogs cry as the players wait to feed the news and sell the waste to scores of poor sad sentimental victims stories stream the skies above the city sinks through pools of ink bleed musings of a man who lost his hand in some mad automobile wreck that damn near killed him I'll run away until I hit the big screen red sun sets her eyes upon the headlines hailing hangings held by witches turning tricks and telling tales and leaking lies so strange and horrible you never would believe her blue haze haunts the hillside houses wailing ailing apparition's spouse's blouse is blowing in the breeze you know i don't believe in ghosts but if I saw one I'd probably fall over I'll run away until I hit the big screen
3.
Bandz 04:00
we were talkin bout that scene in the city she said god these fuckin bands are so cliquey its like a high school dance these fucking bands in the city all the cool kids watching each other get busy all my friends they got bands gonna let me sit in next weekend my friends all got bands and they got a bunch of synths in the basement and the record everything onto tape, man and they're gonna have to find a replacement for the bassist when his other band makes it all my friends they got bands gonna let me sit in next weekend my friends all got bands we grew up with the guy owns the venue and his girlfriend's the one that you book through the promoters a tool but we know him from school he's been talking about starting a band now too all my friends they got bands gonna let me sit in next weekend my friends gotta bands
4.
Please tell us all again about your feelings how they break so easily like the windows on rock & roll street god bless the mess you always left behind you oh baby, please as if happy were something to be please tell us all again about your feelings how they fake so easily like the lovers on rock & roll street fell for the hells that felt a lot like heavens buried your head in the clouds burned your lips on the kisses came down baby won't you sing along with me honey won't you hum along with me Keil ain't ya ever gonna finish filming something we all get to see in the theaters on rock & roll street?
5.
Oh she moved to Chicago from Kensington Harbor expecting magnificent miles but she wound up in Pilsen and got into pills and she let herself go for a while singin fuck yeah hi fid-lee-dee I'm just trying to put my mind at ease fuck yeah hi fid-lee-dee and the fat man says, "hey, do you wanna come drip in the sauna with me?" oh it's long been a fad since i was a lad that you move to the city to live then you lease a rental and burn out your 20's until you hit 30's and kids, then you tie up the tubes and go looking for schools in a district with money to spend and you say that you will but you never do really get back to the places ya been then it's fuck yeah hi fid-lee-dee can't make the forest for my family tree fuck yeah hi fid-lee-dee I ain't got no love song for this city and this city got no love song for me.
6.
They're proud to be American they remember 9/11 they got the sale on the Benson & Hedges $11.47 a pack at the no name smoke shop on the state line by the adult bookstore with the glass pipes some yellow grinned 2006-er he's wavin a scratch off ticket in a picture taped to the counter by the Power Ball numbers big check big smile big life big winner crucifix Zippos and candy bars 600 minute international calling cards strip mall Chines buffet culture wars e-cigarettes and replacement parts at the no name smoke shop on the state line by the adult bookstore with the glass pipes past the cornfield stubble and the snowy pines freeway exit do we have the time?
7.
Jimmy cracks scorn out on the corner of 4th and Main standing outside Spring Hill Mall laughing in the rain he needs a ride and he don't care how you drive Kandy thumbed out there on the corner of 4th and Main standing outside Spring Hill Mall window shopping in the rain she needs a ride to her best friend's house
8.
The rain hissed like static on an old radio there’s less expected of you on days the sun don’t show the oil made rainbows on the rain soaked road oh, to be so colorful I’m gonna go out to the races, gonna watch the horses run losing it can burn, but burning’s half the fun we can all be somebody’s sun
9.
don't you go and stub your toe on those habits you kick you got the brains of brick you got the plenty of licks as a kid just a shame not a one of em sticked and if you go and cut your palms stick to the barbs that you know and the nails that you're shown as you kick through the snow when you know your the boy with the golden toe finally went and hung your head but it took you a while you found your new drop style kept your old rope smile yeah they ask for an inch and ya give em a mile and no one's gonna make your bed when you're sheets to the wind you're unoriginal sin heard it played out before but you swore yeah by god that you'd do it again got on and roll, holy roller, roll pushin and shovin for fortune and love hopin luck saves your lack of control roll, holy roller roll tongue's on the floor but we got higher hopes for your soul baby's got a brand new bag but the tag is a lie she got ya rollin the dice she got the snake in her eyes sheddin skin on a whim gettin high on the prize and you win some you lose some and some you just gotta let go back to somethin they know, let em give up the ghost, let em know your the boy with the golden toe
10.
All the old dogs of the wars they don't do drive through static its coffee at the counter drink it in dining room the uniforms are hangin up in the attic hoping they won't need to wear em too soon and all those young cats got the real fast food habit driving around kickin wrappers down at their feet and all the old dogs are sayin man we really used to have it the kids say i don't ever want that to be me. find me west of Western chasing the frog throated dog up and down the blvd i'll be one less pedestrian send the city some regards from me
11.
Seloh 03:33
you won't always read my name through the buckshot holes in the mailbox on the old whiskey road you won't always hear the screaming of the children chasing paper dolls got caught up when the dairy winds'd blow they picked up all the coins after the auction when they fell out of my pockets through the holes i didn't know cuz it ain't my farm no more cars parked in the pasture there aint no more flags to capture and the hay bales they won't ever look so big no one sleeping in the basement and the barn needs to be painted the wont ever cast the past in cinder pig it gets taken with the harvest and it don't go very far unless yer heart can find a place to carry it there's a hole behind the house where we put the broken milk bottles down and if you find em in the ground lay me there and tell em i don't wanna be found
12.
Lothario 03:38
I'm a gutter Casanova a street sweeper of emotion I'm in the garage building an ocean for you Make love to The Stoners die of indecent exposure now I'm a nova burning brightest for you Things I say I'll never do things I say and never do things I say will never do things I say are never true I got hearts I can't even count so if you wake up to the sound of it all I'm in the back yard digging a mountain for you I'm the shill of vanity fair that ain't the smell of the kids smokin' vanilla over there I'm at the Dairy Queen burning the prairie for you Things I say I'll never do things I say and never do things I say will never do things I say are never true
13.
Randy's 2 old fer this shit too young to retire and he's too broke to quit so he sits and complains through the whole goddamn shift yeah Randy's 2 old he's 2 old fer this shit. says his heart just ain't in it no more its a lifetime gone by since he walked through that door there were Pantera tickets he wanted to score this or Dutch Glow Wood Milkin' the furniture store pushin change at the Shell ain't no gas, you don't need no ID Randy won't even ask slidin' kids cigarettes through the bullet proof glass that they don't even need man this town ain't that bad Randy's 2 old fer this shit too young to retire and he's too broke to quit he was young once thought life had so much more in store fer him oh but now Randy's 2 old fer this shit and now it's to late to change any of it
14.
I am the cool blue of the pool I am the ocean too, I am the salt tides crackin your lips and washing over you, I am your hometown far from the coast lets make the most of it, I am a sunspot glacial eraser I’m a great lake. I only swim infinity pools now I'm gonna live forever
15.
Spring Song 03:58
you opened up yer windows and the sun is shining you've had yer show with the mirrors and smoke and the wind gets in where the cigarettes been spring yeah yer breathing again it shouldn't be such a chore to live yer life happily and if life's so precious why don't the sun burn a hole in yer eye? and why don't the rivers change course when you cry? spring yeah you fell fer the lie blue bird gon' sing not like the crows talk like they know everything and if talk's so cheap why can't you ever just make what ya mean? and wasn't it words cost ya everything? spring ain't it hard to believe
16.
Courtney loves everybody she collects the car keys on saturday nights when she throws her house parties she loves everybody that's why she never lets 'em drive courtney loves everybody like saturday night it gets so damn hard to be the life of the party but courtneys a star, see, and she don't even drink but courtney still loves a good stumbler theres ice in the tumbler and liquor underneath the sink courtney loves screening her best homemade movies at like three when yer tryin to sleep then its eggs and pancakes for breakfast and pills for your head if thats what your head needs
17.
Courtney kicked me out of the party last night fact I didn't even get past the porch brought that fine J. Bavet but she wouldn't let me stay said I ain't welcome here any more you can't show up with a bunch of drunk and uninvited people I don't know it's all in good fun, til someone comes and fucks it up for everyone so yeah Randy you'd better go if yer looking for trouble you can take it to the vfw and honey drink with the soldiers instead what a hemlock hot mess in her orange poppy sundress numbed my heart to see her so good she was lookin so mean standin there in the screen door arms crossed like only she could you can't show up with a bunch of drunk and uninvited people I don't know it's all in good fun, til someone comes and fucks it up for everyone so yeah you'd better go if yer looking for trouble you can take it to the vfw and maybe they won't tell ya no they were shaking their keys and they were singin in the kitchen i could tell things were just getting good but Courtney said no we don't need any more poison for the punch bowl you can't show up with a bunch of drunk and uninvited people I don't know it's all in good fun, til someone comes and fucks it up for everyone so yeah you'd better go and we didn't want no trouble so we took it to the vfw and got drunk with the soldiers instead, yeah we drank with the soldiers instead
18.
Rust on the bridge in this town of laundromats and drive-thrus there sits another broken engine, there lies another broken engineer there goes another broken highway gone for anywhere but here rust on the bridge where they spray painted it in blue 2002 god called fer you but i'll see you in heaven Lynne & Bill forever street lights on rock street army green and bloodshot red and in the middle is the gold we only get when the whiskey hits our heads we blast off from scratch off gas stations break our bread with fountain drinks pull down the plastic skirts of pine trees man it keeps our dirty souls clean our eyes are blackened like the windows of the warehouse had the fire we all watched it burn you'll have missed a bunch but not so much we can't catch up in heaven
19.
Bill's Song 04:35
Lynne quits smokin twenty times a day you can tell what kind of night she had by the way her records lay on her shelves she got the shells from that beach in Saint Tropez She says money's been hell lately but I can't wait to see it again I wish the ocean sounded more like her in the morning I remember when I met her I was fillin up at the Exxon Mobil that her daddy owned she was lockin up the cage with the propane tanks I held the door open for her and she said thanks I wish the ocean sounded more like Lynne sellin' propane We were gettin high at her place when the towers fell She was twistin up a joint suckin caramel They were jumpin from the windows didn't float so well She said all my dreams of flying never felt like hell I wish the ocean sounded more like Lynne talkin' candy

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released September 12, 2015

Cousin Dud is:

Josh Burns (guitars/vox)
Matt Carmichael (guitars/vox/keys)
Cesar Cruz (drums/percussion/vox)
Pete Geraci (sax)
Dan Schuld (bass)


w/ special guests:

Jesus "Chui" Bernal (trumpet - No Name Smoke Shop)
Franklin Ponce (backing vox - Cousin Dud's Pub Song)
Rebecca Rome (trumpet & trombone - No Name Smoke Shop; trumpet - Big Screen)
Rebecca Rose (violin - Poison for the Punchbowl)


all songs written and arranged by Cousin Dud

recorded/mixed/mastered/engineered by Craig Rau

@ Horse horse, Tiger tiger Studio in Crystal Lake, IL







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