| 1. | The Supper Club | |||
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A place where you belong, a place to sing a song We take you as you are, whether near or far Be the way that you want to be We’re happy when you’re glad, saddest when you’re sad We relish when you’re here, love when you drink our beer Be the way that you want to be A place where you belong, a place to sing a song Originally for Song Fight! Live in Madison, Wisconsin, 2019 Song Fight! is a weekly-ish songwriting contest where a title is provided for everyone to write a song to. People write songs, they’re put up for a vote, somebody wins, and it’s all just a pretty good time overall. Once a year we try to get together and do a little in-person concert where we get up on stage and perform our songs together. And part of Song Fight! Live involves a "live fight" where we’re given a title to write a song for and debut at the show. In 2019 we went to Madison, Wisconsin, and the live fight title was The Supper Club. I was having Thoughts about Song Fight! at the time and decided to write a song about how Song Fight! as a community is a place where you should feel comfortable to express yourself in whatever way makes you most comfortable. I don’t know if anyone got that message from the song but it’s something I feel deeply all the same. |
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| 2. | A Grand Parade<3 | |||
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I do not want you going outside right now The giant duck is gonna quack And the TV man is gonna say I do not want you going outside right now The clowns will juggle and the bands will play I do not think you will want to be I do not want you going outside right now Originally for Song Fight!, 2024 Song Fight! has been running for a long time; it started in 2000, making it an extremely old website by today’s standards, and it’s probably one of the first and is almost certainly now the longest-running songwriting communities on the Internet. In 2024, the 1000th title was posted, "A Grand Parade," and for this we all decided to dig up as many past participants as possible to try to get to 100 songs. We succeeded at this! At one point I was entering under an alter-ego, <3, a vessel through which I was trying to express some gender-related stuff, and she was pretty popular. So for A Grand Parade I opted to bring her back for another song. |
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| 3. | Material Change | |||
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Reupholster me into leather or pleather Take me apart and use me as a toy Once was a human long ago Look me in the eyes and turn me into stone Carve me out of wood, make me a work of art Once was a human long ago Reupholster me it would bring me such pleasure You took me apart and used me as a toy Once was a human long ago Originally for Song Fight!, 2022 This title went up when the Roe v. Wade reversal took place, and was a reference to the material change in constitutional law that had just taken place. Plenty of other people wrote songs about politics, so I felt okay with taking the title a bit more literally. This song is dedicated to my friend Beltrami, who is featured alongside me in the cover art. May we someday cross paths in this reality, too. |
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| 4. | Robot BabySo<kpupp3t | |||
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(<3) The morning is alright (fluffy) It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries (<3) When I try to sleep it glows (fluffy) You can’t expect everything to work right (<3) I do not think you went to the FDA (Jane Barbe) (<3) Originally for Song Fight!, 2006 Back before the iPhone came out there were a bunch of early smartphones which were all pretty bad. This song was inspired by one of them in particular, and about how technology can be pretty awful and self-serving. I don’t think things have really improved all that much since then, putting it mildly. For this one I decided to do a "collaboration" of sorts between Sockpuppet and <3. |
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| 5. | Wait Right Here | |||
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Wait Wait I can’t hear the image that you’re saying Wait Originally for Circle of Titles, 2020 One of the other Song Fight! traditions is Circle of Titles, where we provide titles for each other to write songs for in a one-on-one way. In 2020 I got this lovely title from T.C. Elliott (known better as Pigfarmer Jr. on Song Fight!) and decided to write a song that was inspired by another friend’s manic episode from their untreated bipolar disorder. I haven’t spoken to them in a while, and I hope they’re doing okay. (The bipolar friend, I mean. T.C.’s doing fine.) |
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| 6. | After Hours | |||
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Open up your door Open up your door Open up your door (Open up!) Open up your door (I can see the light on through the window) Open up your door Open up your door Open up your door Open up your door Open up your door Open up your door Originally for Song Fight!, 2010 This was a dumb idea I had right before the deadline and the original recording took me about 5 minutes to do, including composing it and writing the lyrics. This version took me a little longer to do. |
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