We're Never Gonna Be Famous, Now

NVRFAMUS

In this song, the students realize that, while the school is all hoity-toity, going to it is not gonna make them famous, the way they'd expected it to make them. That makes them bummed out. (See below if you're unfamiliar with this project.)

Here's last week's song if you play it backwards:

Weird never gonna be famous

The lyrics are:

Why did we have an expectation/ that it would come [from this] education

Going to a school that everybody knows/ We would be all famous but this is how it goes

We’re never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous now

We thought we would be a household name But we /  feel like poop and pee and we don’t have fame

Going to a school that has fucked us up/ now we feel like tools with an empty cup

We’re never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous now

We’re never gonna be famous

We thought that we would be famous but

We got no mercy the school she tamed us, fuck

What are we doing, are we just screwing, up our lives real bad?

Now we are stewing in a car pee and pooping, fuck it makes me sad

Missing all the marks; now our lives are stark; it is really bad

Singing in the dark; just like Linkin Park; shit we’re feeling sad

Pissing in the farts; showers lie in sparks; it is not a fad

Stinging like a lark; fuck [I’m a] sinking shark; and it makes me mad

Sitting in the sea of a blinding sun/ Drinking bitter tea of a life that isn’t fun

Going nowhere fast in the closing door/ Shadows of the past telling us we will be poor

We’re never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous, never gonna be famous now

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.