CLIMBDUP
Meanwhile, the teachers have gone missing - no one in the town can find them. (See below, if you're unfamiliar with this project.) See, after their brains had turned into nature-brains, people kind of stopped paying attention to them because all they did was act weird. But, then, after a time of disregarding the teachers, everybody realizes they're gone. No one knows how long they've been missing cuz it's hard to notice something go missing if one isn't paying attention to it, in the first place.
Everyone grows concerned...then one day, the girl, her friend, and Bob are working at the gas station, and they see the teachers climbing up the nearby mountain. That's the mountain that was talking to the teachers when they got nature-brains. Now the teachers and the mountain are all happy because the teachers are with their new friend, the mountain; and the mountain is with its new friends, the teachers.
This is what last week's song sounds like, if you play it backwards.
The lyrics are:
Meanwhile, the teachers have gone missing - no one in the town can find them. (See below, if you're unfamiliar with this project.) See, after their brains had turned into nature-brains, people kind of stopped paying attention to them because all they did was act weird. But, then, after a time of disregarding the teachers, everybody realizes they're gone. No one knows how long they've been missing cuz it's hard to notice something go missing if one isn't paying attention to it, in the first place.
Everyone grows concerned...then one day, the girl, her friend, and Bob are working at the gas station, and they see the teachers climbing up the nearby mountain. That's the mountain that was talking to the teachers when they got nature-brains. Now the teachers and the mountain are all happy because the teachers are with their new friend, the mountain; and the mountain is with its new friends, the teachers.
This is what last week's song sounds like, if you play it backwards.
The lyrics are:
Wait, we
have found them / They climbed the mountain
The town
could not find them / They made no sound, they were climbing
We see it
from the station / underneath the sky of blue
The teachers
jubilation / singing in the purple dew
They had
gone missing / wait, we had it wrong, listen:
They climbed
the mountain / yay, we have found them
They went up
to the mountain / Now they’re with their friend
Their eyes
sing like a fountain / in a life that never ends
They climbed
the stairway up there
To find their
friend cuz they care
They are no
longer mean, they care and their minds are clean
Bringing
things it longs, singing ringing songs
The mountain is singing cuz it has some friends
The
found-friends are bringing the things Heaven sent
We saw them
climb up there, singing up Heaven’s stair
There they
will stay, the rest of their days
We see it
from the station / underneath the sky of blue
The teachers
jubilation / singing in the purple dew
They went up
to the mountain / Now they’re with their friend
Their eyes
sing like a fountain / in a life that never ends
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. The angels
at some point decide that they have to protect the girl from those nasty
teachers and start to plot against them. But then they realize they don’t want
to actually harm the teachers, so they, instead, make the teachers’ brains into
nature brains ™, which are basically brains that hear communications coming
from nature spirits. The angels do this because they think it’ll give those
teachers more empathy, and will, in turn, be nice to the students. After the teachers receive those nature
brains, they go crazy because a mountain starts speaking to them, and the
numinosity of that experience is too much for them to handle. As graduation approaches, the girl and her friend get more and more nervous about not having a job afterwards, so they turn to beer to help them cope with their anxiety. In the meantime, the guardian angels locate a man, named Bob, who owns a gas station and can give the girl a job. Then Bob, who is really nice, gives the girl and her friend jobs.
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