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What's To Be Done With Family Fun?

by Family Fun

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1.
Sparrow 03:06
The grass is always greener When the tribunal says it’s cleaner So say the creatures of the city Add the complaint to the litany And as we sally forth together Hoof and mouth, unrepentant Our means of survival are our trade secret And our trade secrets you've yet to learn CHORUS: Little sparrow, you're so narrow You can fit into anyone's jeans Look, there's the pigeon who just a smidgeon resembles a young James Dean Little sparrow, how you do it? Keep your cool with so much going on I guess you just get dressed one leg at a time And don't sweat the small shit Paws and claws, your feather feelings It's a bipedal ride you're stealing These troubling times they hardly faze us And our resilience always amazes We never needed your permission We've been doing it this whole time Some of us can even speak your language And read between those man-made lines CHORUS And the bacteria though invisible Can put you in the hospital On the filth On the subway tracks And the endless midtown deli buffets You think you're better than us? (you're not) You pay 2/3 your salary to live in places we've lived forever And the food with which we’ve been partying for days K-9, K-10 Lion’s share stays in the lion’s den With the dreams of humble sparrows Animals domestic, feral We are the keystone species We always were We stand together Feathers and fur
2.
As I walk away Don’t want you to see my Dad Boner You’re walking out of Dress Barn Got me tending to your dress farm Kmart blue light, Target goodness Please forgive this slackjawed rudeness Bundled tightness, see me fidget Your hotness, Liz Claiborne rigid Magic, tragic, hotness hat trick I'm engorged from your elastic As I walk away Don’t want you to see my Dad Boner I like the way you do that Jordache sashay Wish we could just amscray to a one-night stay At the Days Inn in Bergen county Denim princess, high waist rising Wish you knew you my khakis crying Braided belt, stifled lust Think I just missed my bus Chorus Please leave those Lee's alone Now I like you best in Guess Holding Whitman’s samplers on hotel duvets Room service grilled cheese is on its way Being a dad was hard to start And now it just got harder Like a diamond wrapped in Dockers Stonewash to my Levi's Nothing could feel so far away
3.
Juggernaut 02:18
Half past my finest hour No thanks to hapless cowards I'm taking champagne showers No time to smell the flowers God bless what I hath wrought The unstoppable juggernaut Prescription pills Trophy kills I write myself into dowagers' wills Easy-baking Piss-taking I wake and bake with bacon God bless what I hath wrought The unstoppable juggernaut Fist bumping Chest pumping Bible thumping And all for nothing You told me to bring it But it's already been brung And you told me to win it But it's already been won
4.
Lawnplane 04:26
God bless this state of perpetual fear You can't go home and you can't stay here There's bedlam on the boulevard There’s turmoil in the streets There's people who hate everyone and they haven’t met me Take shelter in the basement Take cover in the shelter Take a little solace knowing things will never get better It takes the yolk off you It made a man of you It took a bath on you It got a line past you We're a lot closer to the end than the beginning The stench of fear is written on your grinning We traded it all before we knew we had something to trade It all happened so effortlessly As the world fell away Kudos to the engineers And their fortified deceit And rendered us to elements that the earth wouldn't even eat It takes the yolk off you It made a man of you It took a bath on you It got a line past you Exfoliate the skin, shed that burden of humanity It's all or nothing lest you make a liar out of me Bed or battle Batten down the hatches Embrace the entropy and figure when the crash is Fat free momentum No preservatives impact You got to cut the rope Before you're baffled by the sidetrack Sons and daughters This is your last standard Just the night before you were dusting off the nightstand It's all over And it has been for years Best shots given Good graces unclear Foreclosures on your mouth Because your money's where your mouth is Not for lack of trying A pox on your safehouses I am only living Got a twenty on your heart Don't be so accommodating if you weren't at the start
5.
Prison Jesus 03:29
He throws his gang signs in Latin He always outshines the chaplain Bears a crown of sharpened plastic System failure begat his sentence He holds mass in the yard Holds communion behind bars Christens in the showers Both wolf and punk, trades in scars Prison Jesus, Prison Jesus He will take your toilet water Prison Jesus, Prison Jesus And turn it into toilet wine Prison Jesus, Prison Jesus Injustice is your salvation Prison Jesus, Prison Jesus Forgiveness in incarceration He's got stigmata tape deck tattoos He's got nothing left to lose Sheds tears for humanity Which he immediately tattoos There is only one way Thou shalt not lift weights on Sunday Nor stab your fellow man If thou can help thy hand Chorus Football years 14 to 30 Spending time in the library Studying for his GED But not the bible obviously Because he lived it And because he lived it If you turn your back on him He'll stick a shiv in it Chorus
6.
I'm working hard I’m looking svelt I'm bustin' moves along this conveyor belt I'm pumping out these funky jams Am I concerned? You know I am Gears catch the hair Sparks sear the skin No insurance No protection No scabs No shirts No lights It really hurts There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory Black pants, long hair, management insists With the cogs and gears the injuries persist The ill will the floor is harboring It's time for collective bargaining They keep us working all night long Outputting song after song Efficiency, we got it going on This is our funky Matewan There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory Black man, white man Dancing in synchronization Short-haired man, attractive lady, ponytailed man Working this new rhythm nation The wheels turn and they're dangerous Mandated ponytails, now it just seems ludicrous I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut Let me see you shake your butt There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory There's no union labor in the C+C music factory
7.
Daddy-O 03:58
Greater than yellow legal Post-mortem makes me feeble I'm safe, I'm slow I roll with punches while the credits roll Self-addressed with homemade vinegar Almost made a bigger man of ya I'm in, I'm sold The life we lead is metered against gold Smooth operators are standing by There's no room for failure We can barely keep the pace There's just no room for room these days There's just no room for space Your floorplan's got you phased out The fumes have got you passed out A little here, a little there Pay a little less for wear and tear My squint burns a hole through paper Save a little if the denim's tapered Magnifying glass of a man Chafingdishes, frying pans I just want an edible garden I want to stop crying in public I want to stop misspelling buzzwords I want to stop eating dog food Do you know what they're charging for ketchup these days? Do you know how long it takes to walk anywhere worth walking? There was a time maybe in my prime When the most basic of successes was a death sentence Now I'll take whatever I can get I'll take it from the beggar's cup Lower me into the well It doesn't matter how it got like this It only matters where the reward is ‘Remember when’ just hurts us more The day I wake at 6am is the day we won the war
8.
D*g F**d 04:19
Dog food Dog food The government makes me eat dog food

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released April 28, 2015

Recorded @ Best Instrument Rental
Engineered and Mixed By: Jeff Filmer
Mastered: Pablo Martin

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Family Fun

Family Fun is equal parts punk rock n' roll and nothing. A refreshingly haphazard, multi-lensed beast drawing upon influences musical, historical, comical, and sexual. Hardcore threaded with the theatrical, punk rock peppered with proud pop insensibilities, draws fervently from a gorge of culture and history whether it be Born Against, Dinosaur Jr., Agnostic Front, ELO, Iggy Pop, or Joan Rivers. ... more

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