Duplicitous Anachronism
8:38
This song started out as just a little bit of wordplay. Words were chosen at random and put on paper. They were then grouped together in a semi-cohesive structure. It pokes some fun at pseudo-intellectuals who brag about finding ‘depth’ and ‘meaning’ in every aspect of their lives. It’s not really intended to ‘make sense,’ (although some of the ideas actually do go together) it’s just a way to have a good time (and practice your rhyming). Plus it was a fine chance to practice a smarmy British accent!
‘Duplicitous Anachronism’ is played in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD).
Duplicitous Anachronism Lyrics
A bunch of random sentences strung together to sound good
A bunch of random sentences that don’t mean what they should
They can sit for years trying to understand what this one’s about
Analytical minds’ll be so disappointed if they ever figure it out
Caviar smiles belie their chop meat pride
Their entrails would cringe if you could see inside
Pseudo symbolisms drowned in quasi metaphors
Hinges disconnected for wrong-way opening doors
Eggplants rooted in thumbnail sketches
I wonder of the label this one fetches
See the elf clinging to the bare midriff
The lyrical meanderings, take a big whiff
Pretty painted scenery, brightly strung lights
Marked-up vendings, imaginary savings, green in their sights
A maze of convoluted, contrite, concentrical condescensions
Preposterous, prearranged, prehensile pretensions
Anthropomorphism
Parsimony
So much to say so little
Guitar Solo
Droplets in the ocean, sands in the desert
Why try to find something to rhyme with desert?
The faucet drips like sands in an hourglass
The can collector beside the thoroughfare, multitudes pass
Speed limits, stop, caution, yield, all slow you down
Race to your cubicle, be the boss’s clown
We grovel and compromise, betraying our soul
Leap like hungry lions for the dead lady’s rent-controlled
Festering thoughts of malignant discontent
Before the check clears, your money’s already spent
Conservative, liberal, drivel of which they’ll boast
Relish and mustard for scrambled brains on toast
Build a virtual existence, replace tangible reality
A mind-numbed populace strives to achieve this duality
A future nostalgia from today’s banality
Binary deities, temples in the clouds, our new spirituality
Prestidigitation
Verisimilitude
An exercise in futility
Bass and Guitar Solos
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Track 1 Dead From The Neck Up Track 2 Hipsterocrisy
Track 3 Duplicitous Anachronism Track 4 Reality?
Track 5 Mistake Of Life Track 6 Defecation Of Character