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Alive and Foolish

Help!  My recently uploaded single on streaming services is “Chasing My Tail”.  It’s a funny story about a confused young man who copies everybody else’s art, even his own!

“I can fake a Picasso as well as anybody!”  Pablo Picasso, via Robert Anton Wilson

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?  And more importantly, to me, if you don’t listen, does anybody hear?

I apologize for being so cheeky!  I may get a grip on my sense of humor some day.

Here’s the link that will take you to this song on your favorite streaming service:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/seamasmanly/chasing-my-tail

When you click the “follow” and “like” buttons on streaming services, that helps me broaden my possible audience, because of some funny things called “algorithms”.  The music business today is a whole new world.  I’m getting used to it.

You’ve read this far, so, Thanks!

This song will morph into a video soon, I promise.  In the meantime, here are the lyrics:

chasing the tail of my karma,

sometimes thought it would lead up my***,

till one day my brain exploded with too many words,

blew a fuse and that was enough

couldn’t taste the meal, so i ate the menu,

couldn’t buy the restaurant, so i blew up the computer

couldn’t live with guilt, so i blew it out the window

couldn’t handle living till i came to simply be 

 

chasing myself out of existence, where do i end and you begin

sometimes thought i would lose my sense of humor

but that’s all there was in the end

 

stole part of one song and put it in another, now i forgot, what was that line?

am i condemned to plagiarize my own existence, can’t i do anything for the first time?

lyrics and music ©Seamas Manly, Halloween 1999 / 2017, plus two public domain instrumental bits (J.S. Bach’s “Badinerie in B minor”, and Julius Fucik’s  “Entrance of the Gladiators”) 

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