Thursday, June 13, 2019

We Have To Fight Them



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In this song about a girl in a fucked up school (see below if you're unfamiliar with this project), the girl's guardian angels are very concerned about the extent to which the teachers are fucking up her mind. They ultimately decide that they have to do something about it. Those angels decide that they have to go to war with the teachers in order to save the girl. As you can tell, looking at the picture, it's not like they're happy that they have to do that. Those there angels are nice; and because they're nice, they don't like to harm people. But in this case, they gotta potentially do harm to those mean teachers because they need to protect the girl. I mean, they are her guardian angels, after all.

Weird we have to fight them
This is last week's song if you turn it around backwards.

They lyrics are:
It is the day we realized / the teachers are her enemies
And this school is no big prize / for the girl who likes to talk to trees
We’re her guardian angels and  / we won’t let them ruin her mind
We will stop the teachers’ plan / they are stupid and unkind
We’re her guardian angels and we love her very much
She will get real stupid if we let things stay as such
And we hear the battle cry / raining on the thunder up high
Fuck, we do not have an excuse / the school has set the demons loose

We have to fight them, we have to fight them, we have to fight them, we have to fight them

We have to fight against the teachers fight against them now, we have to fight against the teachers, fight against them now

We do not know how this will go / when the battle cry is singing down low
Will it make things good again / for the girl who’s in the devil’s den?
We’re the angels and we’ll fight / for the girl so we’ll know she’s alright
For the girl who likes to talk to the trees / for the girl who’s singing on the breeze


One day, I started writing a song about a fucked up school. Then, a few days later, that lawsuit came out, involving those pervy professors in the Dartmouth Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I was all, oh, my stars!!! That’s where I got my Ph.D.! Then I finished writing the song about a week later. I thought it was just a song about how the school system fucks up kids, but after I finished writing and recording it, I realized parts of it were about my experiences in that poopy psych department (the unconscious mind works in mysterious ways). In any event, I decided to write an album about a fucked up school in order to process my experiences of having been in that department and how the culture there impacted me. This album ain’t necessarily about Dartmouth, per se. It’s more of a weird, inner exploration where I’m, like, having a fucked up dialogue with my unconscious about my experiences at Dartmouth. Jung used to call that kind of stuff “active imagination.” So far, this album follows the story of a girl, whose guardian angels try to protect her, but often can't find her. 

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