Reprise

REPRISE1

This is the last song on the album of songs about a fucked up school: It's a reprise of a couple themes from this album. (See below, if you're unfamiliar with this project.) It's mainly something to wrap things up and give a chance for the characters to reflect on things. The guardian angels are reflecting on their having helped the girl out, and the girl and her friend are reflecting on their time at the school.

Oddly enough, this album fits exactly onto a CD, with no spaces between the songs.  Like, just a couple more seconds and this album woulda been too long to fit onto a CD. I'd been anxious because when I recorded "Climbed Up" the previous week, I was afraid the whole thing was too long for one more song. But I really wanted to do a reprise, so I gave it a shot. Dang, it's exactly the length of a CD. Yesiree.

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This is what last week's song sounds like if you turn it around backwards:

Weird reprise mix 2

The lyrics are:
We're her guardian angels, and it got real bad; we came to rescue her, cuz she got real sad.

I have ears that won't stop ringing; my mind is broken but I can't stop singing
I'm blind and stupid but I'm learning the world is turning but it won't stop burning

He said do you want to wait, til graduation day? We can run away; I said no let's stay.

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 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.