THE FACT FACER Life Could Be A Dream
Recorded: 2012
Lyrics
When I get off this mouse's wheel
I'm gonna change the way I always feel
You never take a game serious... shouldn't take a game...
Everybody's feelin' the same old Scorpion sting
And tryin' to decode with the cheapest dime-store ring
So you can look for your keys in the darkest night
After staring at the sun that shined too bright
You'll see shapes you can imagine
Could cure the wildest ills
You can imagine... the wildest ills
When I get off this same old mouse's wheel
I'm gonna change the way I always feel
Life Could be a Dream, Life Could be a Dream
So you can lie back and shudder or Wake up and Scream
Or rattle chains like me in a Limbo in between...
BackStory
..In the 80's on long car rides between North Carolina and Georgia, my mother would buy us these gas-station compilations of 50's songs. This got me into Del Shannon & and tons of odd novelty songs like "Haunted House", "Tell Laura I love her", "Sugar Shack" and so on. Buried somewhere between "Charlie Brown" and "Splish Splash" was "Life Could be a Dream" by the Coasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5W-xJWuPE
Neil Young made a punk tradition out of grabbing classic/old song titles and re-imagining them with a different narrative. ...and the concept of 'life being a dream' is relatively worn out,, so you have to try and make it new again..- Ironically,, on a break from touring a couple years ago,, I was back in Georgia visiting my mom and picking out some chords while thinking about what I tend to think about everyday... which is this hilarious tempting thought that 'someday, maybe things will be different'.. ...the fallacy that life is moving towards some grand achievement in a linear fashion... ..a meditation on the grass being greener eventually.. ..just something the ego taunts you with..
..so the idea of 'getting off this mouse's wheel' is the joke // because its not possible...
and in some way,, words have the ability to enact a potentially poetic revenge on this Catch 22 that can soothe you...
to "lie back and shudder or wake up and Scream
Or rattle chains like me in a Limbo in between..." gives some sort of implied resolution to something that can never be resolved...
'Wake up and Scream' was probably a reference to an old horror film with accidentally Existential implications called "Scream and Scream Again" that they shouldn't have showed us in after-school one day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ud0uTnr4M
Raw And Disfigured
In the Garden
THE FACT FACER
LOST DECADE II
Decline of the West (Expanded Edition)
Enter the Uninhabitable
Staying True to the Ascetic Roots
