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Mid​-​Century Modern Problems

by White Noise Maker

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1.
Everything Must Go 03:36
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Closeout, clear out Clearance warehouse Everything must go Total liquidation Quiet resignation Love it hate it Everything must go No fear, no time No I, me, mine No up, no down below No stained glass ceiling No more hard feelings You won't need that overcoat Everything must go Everything must go Once they lock the doors They won't open anymore Everything must go Everything must go Better grab the rose Before the gate can close Everything must go No palaces, no pyramids No basic building blocks, no acid test Someday you'll knock and there'll be no one home Stay as long as you like but Everything must go You want half off, marked down Heavy discount, this town Everything must go Bargain basement Cut-rate savings Let's face it Everything must go No start, no stop Those half-baked thoughts They gossamer on ghost No strong belief No west, no east No body politic No collective soul Everything must go Everything must go Once they lock the doors They won't open anymore Everything must go Everything must go Pay for what you want Steal it if you don't Everything must go No inside-out, no ground control No common tongue No habla Español No primadonna No post Malone Can't even keep a promise, no Everything must go These are the final days After the fire sale Now that the severance paycheck's in the mail, heck Now that the last trumpet's blown Everybody knows that Everything must go Everything must go Everything must go Everything must go Everything's up in smoke That's all she wrote Nothing's set in stone Everything must go Lose the ego trips And the masterstrokes It's the last remarks Everything must
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Deep Fake 03:33
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Red queen, blue queen Red queen, blue queen A little bit louder The machine is listening Global positioning, help I've lost my head Can't hold you now You're crypto-currency Sold the cow for more black magic beans You dance me clean Clean off the cutting edge I'm falling for your Deep Fake Deep Fake Deep Fake How long have I been living the dream In your police state Cover all the bad blood With a little grease paint Got me with a Deep Fake Deep Fake Deep Fake Wallowing at the shallow end of the think tank I'm falling hard now For your Deep Fake Head of the hydra Head of the hydra You never expect the one sleeping beside you To infect the system, spread like a virus Face off, wife swap, Apple stylus I can hear the canary cough in the coal mine Barely aware of the blur in the outline My sense of decency Has been tampered with You got me with a Deep Fake Deep Fake Deep Fake How come I can no longer discriminate Between the brut champagne and the sparkling grape You're selling me a Deep Fake Deep Fake Deep Fake Kiss with one eye open Say love is blind faith In the end it's all a Deep Fake Deep Fake Deep Fake Is it the pixels behaving badly Walking across your uncanny valley Conventional wisdom Throwing the towel in Walking across your uncanny valley Is it the pixels behaving badly Walking across your uncanny valley Conventional wisdom Throwing the towel in Walking across your uncanny valley Is it the pixels
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Man Overboard 03:30
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Water water everywhere Nothing to drink I'm fighting with the current Or I'm swimming upstream I slipped over the railing While you all fled the scene Man overboard I know what they mean Deluges of grandeur I made a mistake Kept looking for Atlantis Under Michigan Lake I think I might be saved Until the Kraken awakes I'm not waving, I'm drowning I know they look the same Haven't we been through this before How many times Man overboard You lean out too far You're gonna fall We all take a dive Man overboard Man overboard Mother Nature comes at you With red tooth and claw It's the neverending sequel To three-dimensional Jaws You're the magician's assistant Cut in half with the saw Misusing your illusion Warming up a swan song Haven't we been through this before How many times Man overboard Don't be surprised Spoiler alert No one survives this Man overboard It's the fear I've been falling On a toy plastic sword The meaningless tears In a Midsomer storm It's the terror of knowing What's really in store You can't row a boat That don't float anymore Went over the railing without a word Who was that sailor Man overboard Went over the railing without a word Who was that sailor Man overboard Went over the railing without a word Who was that sailor Man overboard Went over the railing without a word Who was that sailor Man overboard Went over the railing without a word Who was that sailor Man overboard
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Beyond the Line 03:56
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All Over the Map 03:50
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Drunks and children tell the truth They speak in tongues I leave confused When the dunk tank replaced your kissing booth All hell broke loose It's Beetlejuice Can't read your mind in legalese The thrill has died buying legal weed You're global warming I'm Mr. Freeze Misplaced my keys This is ADD You said I'm off my rocker sitting still Just an ex-shit talker sight-reading braille What's Ahab's vengeance without the whale Not much to write about Been handcuffed in your Acura Making love to Lady Dracula Some think the view from here's spectacular But honey I want out So please, please Don't make me go back I know I'm all over the map I'd rather not know where I'm at Don't want to know who you're bending your back for Don't care how you're paying the landlord The last thing I want is a land war Of course I can tell when I'm done for Instead of living pinned to your mat I'd rather be all over the map It's a struggle to still evolve Walk and then learn to crawl Bit by the underdog Where went the wherewithal Hang up when Nature calls Cave writing's on the wall Why won't you wash your hands Are we neanderthal Sound the alarm Bang on the gong One minute I'm here the next one I'm gone The chords haven't changed It's the same old song Said the famous ape to the Son of Kong And I'm hanging off your Chrysler Building Like a movie monster A supervillain You know it's not the fall from grace that kills you It's the unforgiving ground The compass rose is a shrinking violet I'm the warm-up act for Pontius Pilate J-Jesus Jones, when the road goes silent I can't hang around here So please, please Don't make me go back I know I'm all over the map Guess I'd rather not know where I'm at Between the talking heads and the audience capture The walking dead and the biblical Rapture I'm melting down like an over-reactor Spent years trying to flirt with disaster Don't fight it when the panic attacks No, I'd rather be all over the map Look at the state I'm in I spread myself too thin Look at the state I'm in I spread myself too thin
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Tell Me This Isn't Happening 03:26
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I heard the rumor mill Grinding jagged edges off of that little pill The one you intend for me to swallow Of course I will If it stops the fear and trembling Everybody's talking 'bout your new arrangement You were seen moonwalking with a tall dark stranger Is he deep like ocean Does he give you danger Tell me this isn't happening Keep the details blurry What I don't know won't hurt me What use is spilling the truth When it's not what I'm asking Tell me this isn't happening Tell me this isn't happening Let's remove the burden of proof If it's breaking your bat wings Tell me this isn't happening Tell me this isn't happening Tell me this isn't happening At your dog and pony show I watch you feed the birds crumbs from a sourdough Stop the daily bread and circus Stop counting crows Stop history from trying to repeat If I just ignore it will it go away How many early warning signs is it gonna take You used to hold me like china Now you drop me like rattlesnake Tell me this isn't happening If you love me, lie to me Leave the holes in the story You can keep the details blurry What I don't know won't hurt me I shoulda seen it coming, woman But I can't read your fine-printed packaging Tell me this isn't happening Tell me this isn't happening Say first that time is reversed And the whole world's spinning backwards Tell me this isn't happening Tell me this isn't happening Should I be searching for the black box, baby At the airplane crash Should I keep working for the Red Cross Maybe they can heal the past I see the man behind the curtain I'm ignoring facts Can you hide the axe Til I turn my back Do I have to ask Please tell me this isn't happening This isn't happening This isn't happening This isn't happening This isn't happening
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Nothing Special 03:36
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Not built for speed Not built for pleasure Got milkweed growing underneath the hedges Just another weekend warrior Mishandling those heavy metals Another rite of spring gone wrong Eva Braun Dragging on Like an endless summer music festival When you gonna admit it It was nothing special Just an average wait at baggage claim Watching the carousel You know very well That the rules do apply Get to the back of the line Let's see you nod in silent acquiescence It's pretty common To be honest It's really nothing special Pretty common, mama To be completely honest Nothing special Pretty common, mama To be completely honest Nothing special Not made to last Not made to order Why's everyone an expert witness Did the jury hang the court reporter Who cares how fast this ship is sinking Just as long as it keeps moving forward Stay the center of the universe Jack Horner in the corner 'Cause believe you me the other way is murder When you gonna admit it It was nothing special No precious gemstone find No beautiful mind No world record-setter It's hard to accept it We're just ordinary people Have to settle for a routine check-up Hey guess what It's pretty common To be honest It's really nothing special Pretty common, mama To be completely honest Nothing special Pretty common, mama To be completely honest Nothing special
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Better Me 03:28
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The self-help books are piling up quick They sell me the carrot They sell me the stick A pill, an elixir, a new way to think A vain attempt to build a better me With complex guilt and a glass half full of spilt milk How am I supposed to build a better me Go on, get with it, roll up your sleeves You could widen your smile and whiten your teeth In man's search for meaning I'm lost in the weeds I can barely see the front row Stuck in the nose bleeds Life in the cheap seats The major flaw in my chief regret Is that I'm not somebody else So give me hell or give me help Or something in-between It's the great white whale for the black sheep It's a nice day for a better me The master blueprints I tore a hole in them These TED Talks and deep thoughts sound like condolences There's no room left in this crowded city The one in my head where the neighbors keep screaming It's the inkblot test and the box of Wheat Thins Pulling the plug on the power of now My untethered soul stole the car and left town I've thrown out my back trying to boost self-esteem Tell that blind watchmaker I'm missing pieces The major flaw in my chief regret Is that I'm not somebody else So give me hell or give me help Or something in-between I'm throwing brick shots at my life goals Burn the house down, baby, with this ray of hope I get motion-sick so I missed the boat That was years ago Years ago Break the rock Bend the steel What's the odds that I'll succeed Trying to re-re-invent the wheel It's not you electric blue It's better me Break the rock, bend the steel What's the odds that I'll succeed Trying to re-re-invent the wheel It's not you Better me
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Night Shift 03:48
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Romeo among the ruins Under the influence Of that poison aftershave And don't be the drunk at the funeral It's business as usual Dig a grave You never lost it American Gothic Your dearly departed This dead letter office You're a sweet-talking coffin Spent years playing possum Hands deep in the cotton Calypso forgotten Strange days What's this You're back at it The night shift Jet black Lipstick You feel it don't you Don't you feel the night shift You feel the night shift Knees on the marble Head in the crypt Kiss like we're starving Don't know when we started The night shift No ceremony, no superstition No written permission We don't care what lies beneath This is Mary Shelly's morbid addiction To read her new fiction to her mother's mausoleum Moon changes mood With the governor removed Engine guzzles fuel You feed or you're food Shake weed, hard booze This town is a tomb Put your mouth to my mouth If the spirit moves you These windows bone white wet Lord can't see through them Strange days What's this You're back at it The night shift Double over time Black magic trick You're back at it again The way the night shifts What's strictly forbidden Comes quickly unzipped It's a switch that gets flipped The night shift And don't it get real dark, real quick Whisper like a graveyard Tell me how the night shifts Don't care how the stained glass slipper fits Sister that behavior, save it for the night shift 'Cause once the light hits, we're lifeless It's like this, midnight til it strikes six The vice grips about twice as tight As the tyrant's clenched fist Compounding with interest It flips in an instant Like a cruel mistress Whose gone cold as a Thin Mint Straight out of the tin fridge Hey don't get offended if your plans get upended Invitation rescinded, no fences were mended I can't recommend this road to Perdition My fallback position Stay on the night shift
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Getting Used to Losing You 03:32
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Strung together all the scarlet letters that you left Cast away an unplayed pair of wooden castanets No more bees wax birthday candles No more hornet's nest It's when the other arm stops reaching for the phantom limb I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you What else is new No last look back from some sacred fear you'd turn to salt I'm struck silent, dead, a decommissioned cable car You're climbing Jacob's ladder just to steal our money jar Run from the closet to the CoinStar to the hotel bar Getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you Getting used to losing you What else is new What else is new What else is new What else is new What else is new I'm living clean now Got a simple routine down I learned to swallow the screams And stopped having the dream where you reach out I'm talking to strangers again A little disoriented There's an alarm that's been sounding for so long I don't even hear it I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you I'm getting used to losing you What else is new

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released February 5, 2024

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White Noise Maker Seattle, Washington

The producer / artist / songwriter, White Noise Maker, is a veteran of many different facets of the music industry. He’s founded and fronted bands that have opened for indie-alternative rock luminaries like Dinosaur Jr. and Guided By Voices, composed theme songs and music for television shows, and used his talents to create background songs for nationally recognized brands. ... more

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