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Just Sayin' Volume One

by The Middle Americans

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1.
Tick Tock 02:49
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Everyone needs a departure, a variation from the norm And in this foreign quarter. I see no reason to conform See that girl behind the window, she’s something different I can tell She stands up straight and then she bends low, someone please turn up the smell Be my standard deviation, one step past infatuation Welcome to my new rotation, let me help you with your dress You want to get arrested I’m crossing time zones by the number, I can’t believe this state I’m in This song is in your pocket Crushing consciousness for slumber This song is in your brain Won’t erase this wicked grin This song never should have been released, grin, I hope you’re not insane In the sky A temptress from that inner eye Be my standard deviation, one step past infatuation Let me help you with that dress Help you with that dress, help you with that dress, let me help you with that dress Excuse me could I help you with your dress please, there you go, that’s better This song disrupts the platform, destroys the net, multi multi platform-based business plans Ain’t priced this song in yet, down Be my standard deviation, one step past hallucination Hallucination Welcome to my new rotation. Dream with me while I digress While I digress, while I digress Listen to Barny man, this song might make you free
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The Firefly and the Log 03:40
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Alright so, the firefly and the log agree, yes agree, about the velocity of the current flowing in river X The fly only sees, one came down the Allegheny the other the Monongahela, his own speed velocity One the theoretical, hypothetical, free flow body in a fluid flow The other with a gnat’s ass sense of self will and what happened, slightly lower value than our ideal Why am I so different, wait, your different, your different The firefly and the log disagree on this thing too We’re not the same Floating along in the psychic entropy propelled simply by time, four sixty twenty-one skidoo At ever lower energy states, until the DNA collapses back in on itself, during the seventh inning stretch Jesus Christos, team physio retired superstar of Minnesota Twins legend World series, Harmom Killibrew, in 1917, plays no part in this story what so ever Harmon Killibrew plays no part in this story, It’s still fun to say his name, still fun to say it One came down the Allegheny, Yeah, the log, the other the Monongahela Propelled simply by time, the ideal, the log, I want to see you, to ever lower energy The firefly and the log agree to disagree, propelled, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee In river Y, why the fly only sees its own speed We got canoes full of beer I know Who wrote the song The angles of Los Angela play during the seventh inning stretch As if half expecting, the specimen floating, looks at the current and naturally calculates The return, of all-star center fielder Jesus Christos You know what you’re not that great Your totally imperfect, the log, the unthinking specimen floating back in on itself And I love you just that way, the firefly and the log disagree on this thing too
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Reconsider 01:13
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Though I beg you to reconsider, you have every right to speak my pain on a stage in the name of art The kind of burrowed pain only an introvert could leave undeclared, unspoken, and undevoted to the crowd Not as you are it’s slave, it’s grand acting, chained, breathless, entertaining slave Be a simple kind of man You have nothing to yourself I am branded and burned and singed To elevate and aggravate my worst fears On the numbed faces of dispersed strangers Who will never know the feeling of my fingers on their brow Under a low-lit ceiling of Sundays, and Mondays, and Tuesdays, and all days of our eleven years I beg you to reconsider
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The Fireballs 01:37
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1977,1977,1977, into a mind, 77, it was 1977 for most of my life So, the same answer repeats, cause its 1977, repeats, 1977, 1977, 1977 Repeats, so it’s still 1977, repeats, trying to recalibrate As we consider, the forever first-class stamp act of 2007, the law that changed capitalism We consider the ability of ever ? concepts to achieve consciousness, the entire tri state area Saint Elmo’s fires crackled in the front yard the way they always did in July in Iowa in the 1800s Normal displays of fireballs as they were known could be seen for miles Occasionally a settler would spontaneously combust Things trying to eat me, and take my egg salad sandwich Had sex in the back seat of Ferrari single seat formula one race cars Indicating that something more significant than random chance was making the fire balls appear
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Dream Wish Angst Plan 05:36
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I’m living the dream, but who’s dream And why do they dream such shitty dreams If there’s one thing I excel at its dreaming Not to boast, not to brag, but, my dreams are better than this endless drag So why, why am I stuck living in this dream I wish I could be nice like everyone else, I wish I understood when people say things I wish I could be mean like everyone else I wish they understood when I don’t say things I wish I could be close instead of closed I wish I could be most instead of almost I wish, I wish, I wish Embrace the angst of your youth, every embarrassing moment has the beauty of a thousand, cringes And that person who wouldn’t leave your hysterical brain Who you wanted with mere physical pain, twinges Remember, but never relive, analyze, and maybe forgive Forgive yourself of the sin of being young and naive, and full of hormonal imbalance And love yourself now, every why and every how Because some day you might recall with wonder that you survived it all What are these things you possess, direction and purpose, hard work, motivation, success? I can only seem to stumble through life, like a drunkard in the night Happy enough I ended up home in my own warm bed What is this magic you possess, that made things go the way you planned? If I made a plan, the universe would surly shake the whole world with its laughter The chaos that made us all, made you exhibit A and me exhibit B Her the one that will excel, and here the one, well, we’ll see
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She Hit Him with a Pan 05:15
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Bam she hit him with a pan I mean bam she hit him That cartoon cows always hittin’ people with a pan She did it again she hit him with a pan It’s a pan full of love The Dr. of Love right next to Dollar General On first avenue south The Doctor of Love The Doctor of groovy, groovy love Kitty corner from the YMCA I gotta go got to go to The Doctor of love Your disease ain’t no mysteria Shoot you blind from the female hysteria Bam she hit him with a pan Dam She hit him again with a pan Always hittin’ people with a pan She did it again Hit him with a pan again A pan full of love It’s kitty corner from the YMCA I gotta get there I gotta go They’re talking about that lady who came in with malaria Down on 1st avenue south kitty corner from the YMCA Hey get right down town Gotta lifetime of history It’s all Byzantine mystery The Doctor of love on first avenue south Kitty corner from the YMCA Listen in poly stereo The mono stereo is just as good His office is downtown Gotta get downtown The answers obvious I gotta go He can cure you of everything except blind female hysteria Lady came in bam she hit him with a pan again The cartoon cow is always hittin’ people with a pan She did it again She hit him with a pan but it’s full of love and you know she cares That’s why she got them big eyes, she always stares She’s been to the doctor, the doctor of love That doctor of groovy love He’s a winner over for dinner Doctor of love Chicken dinner, I don’t know what kind of dinner Right across from family general on first avenue south Lady came in blind Bam She hit him with a pan Bam she hit him with a pan Good She did it again
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Razbliuto 01:04
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Razbliuto in the morning, when I wake up to your text You think I’m going to miss you, but I’m, wondering whos next Who next to walk for hours with, who next to lie under the stars Who next to swing in parks at night, who next to close down all the bars Once I held a torch, a fire, a flame, a brazier But now it has all gone away With Love I have grown lazier
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The Last Homonid 02:29
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Reflections on the last two million years Report from Katalyst Grueppe 47 Siedlung Humboldt, Iowa You’ve been here for the blink of an eye For the last two million years Did time change for you slowly Did time ever happen to anyone When time goes on forever What then is two million years The last hominid the first species to use symbology You use symbology In some sort of abstract logical schemata The last hominid some sort of intelligence Some sort of abstract logical schemata Pondering metaphysical philosophical ambiguously willful Willfully ambiguous and its led to inducting man into our own hall of fame Constantly wandering the age-old question To be or not to be For that is always the question To be this When you think about thinking about The next logical negation Then you will see that you have left another half a world behind And in every operation, there is a symbolic opportunity To calculate the chance of any human reaction Just like batting averages of the soul I hope you manage to hit one out of the park Good luck Good luck to the crowd behind third base God knows we love you and we’re on your side To be or not to be To be this or to be that You have been here for the blink of an eye For two million years What then is two million years To be or not to be You
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Vultures 02:39
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I had a dream last night We were all convened at a church to meet and greet and atone for all our crimes We looked upon each other, found no truths, no resolution Wearing the faces of our youth, every blink was a tactic, every breath a war I have grown too tired for these petty pointless games But they are always playing with the same worn deck of cards Even in my dreams, we are not friends, we are vultures We picked through the remains of a million conversations Reciting our dead memories, regurgitating dialog We fed upon each other and found no peace, no satisfaction Sharpening beaks upon the pews, every offer a tactic, every truce a war I have grown too tired for these petty pointless games But they are always playing with same worn deck of cards Even in my dreams we are not friends, we are vultures I have grown too tired, we are not friends, we are vultures
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Growing Up Compromise 02:17
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Bending is a myth We are always just breaking Little tears in the fabric of all that we are Remitting, reforming, stronger but flawed Strangers to the standard we set when we were whole The truth is, I don’t get too enthused for anything anymore Everything is a compromise of the original intent Weighed against the sleep debt I’ll owe And the amount of sighing I can get away with, without hating myself I wonder if this is growing up, everybody’s growing up but I’m jst growing older I’ve never really known true love, my heart just growing colder I’ve known obsession and regret; I’ve had a couple friends like you Now its almost spring again when everything begins to renew But I have always hated spring for everything we lose With all this growing up I keep on loosing you To the day after day after day after days And all this growing up leaves less time for magic and mythos and adventure I just want some mystery to remain I hope you do too
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Falling Down 05:05
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Long before the dawning of the age of time Things are always in the process of falling down The process of falling down Something about entropy Equated with empathy Things are always in the process of falling down And sullenly, merrily, we are driving ourselves That funny alchemist Isaac Newton Lets’ get a younger quote from that new man Alfred E Alfred said The condition The condition that our condition is in Has a net sum of zero in the almighty soup So a disturbance here and a protest there Just keeps the primordial soup churning along Give the universe something to do Falling down The equations all point Don’t wreak it or check it Brutal and strewn with all of the opinions Of those we have ruined And if you don’t like that Things are always in the process of falling down Little Whos from Whoville get tomorrow the joy of falling down You can sit by the fire and poke fun at the Whos You think you know who is who So when the what in the who starts to go for his gun will the gut in the what of the who fire too And don’t mention them because them are just who Were so normal were normally rude, but since were on the television
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Don't Cry Not Here 04:38
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You stood in the doorway your heart across my bed You stood in the doorway your heart across my bed This isn’t something you should fear You know what I want You know why I’m here You are only as free as I want to believe I’m not here to change your mind Tonight you are mine I take just as you begin to give Don’t cry You break just as I begin to live Not here You are only as young as I want to be Don’t cry Not here Don’t cry For tonight you are mine You know what I want You know why I’m here You are only as young as I want to be I’m not here to change your mind For tonight you are mine You are only as young as I want to be You are only as free as I want to believe Don’t cry Not here I’m not here to change your mind tonight you are mine You are only as free You are only as free as I want to be Don’t cry Not here As I want to believe Don’t cry Not here You stood in the doorway You are only as young Your heart across my bed You know what I want This is why I’m here Yyou are only as free I don’t need you to forgive me As I want to be I take just as you begin to give You break just as I begin to live Don’t cry Don’t cry Not here

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This album features spoken word and music. The topics include philosophy, physics, love and hate. The music ranges from experimental jazz to ambient americana.

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released September 10, 2021

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Erick Hovey and Friends Fort Dodge, Iowa

Erick Hovey's music is peppered with seasonings of blues, roots rock, jazz, funk, old power trio rock, reggae, and newer folk fusion styles. His lyrical content has not only good humored nods towards classic blues and rock clichés’, but spans the afterlife, and existentialism as well. Sometimes it’s spooky, sometimes it’s raw, spiritual, and sensual. Think Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale, and Peter Green. ... more

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