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At a certain point I decided to write good songs, this is one of the first of them. It's been taken and made much better by Mike and Chris but this is it's origin story before Cabin Dreams.

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Stand back and do the countdown
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, I'm taking off now
And you all look like ants but you're not as strong as ants
And it's a bright day but I can't tell
There's a window but it's crystal and it's cracked in the middle
And everything looks like it's a spider or a fly and I'm a bird
But I have nowhere to go

So I sing and it sounds pretty to some
But to others it just gets annoying
And they want me to shut up so they can get more sleep
But no, there's nothing you can do
I can sing all I want and I'm singing to you
And the words to this song are very meaningful
But you don't speak bird
If you live here, you should learn the language

So as time goes by you'll notice there is more to what you see
It makes no difference, it's an action just to be
So when they clip your arms, you're no longer a scarecrow
You're a child, you're a pile of blindfolds

Think fast, here comes a hard one
In the form of fifty million smart bombs
Just because you're underground doesn't mean you're safe for harm
And I try to float on with a wing and a prayer
That goes out to anyone who's waiting, wanting to share
It's not a novel if you don't write it down anywhere

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from The Rind pt. 2: Rotten (A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 2008​-​2023), released December 25, 2023
Eric Bennett - guitar, lyrics, vocals

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I've always been terrible at writing biographies so why stop now. We're probably a band from Michigan. We don't adhere to a specific genre which causes mild schizophrenia in certain individuals. We will write commercial jingles for the right price and we do NOT play at weddings, only funerals. ... more

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