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Alowicious Lives

from The Divided Demos by Alex Grantham

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I've been trying to figure out what the name of this song is for ages. At first it was called "The Illusion Of Life", then it was changed to "Ars moriendi", then it was simply called "Ars" and now it's called "Alowicious Lives". I think this is finally the official name. Tomorrow is will be different though. The lyrics have changed since this demo. I sing "Screaming leaving Las Vegas" now instead of "Screening Shirley MacLaine films" for obvious reasons.

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Albert Camus
You came down from the sky
And sang gospel songs just to pass the time
You’re an easy-going guy

Mother Goose
You owe me a five
From the foosball match on the morning of Fri.
Guess you can only win when you’re high

I’m taking a train
To the end of the line
Then I’m skipping town when I arrive
To run and catch a train

Sings me songs
Songs of love

Because I have chosen to enrich the illusion of life
With delusions of grandeur and such X2

Busking man
You’re a king to the streets
And you win the hearts of all the minds you meet
The solace is in the song

Bill Denbrough
You stared It right in the face
And Eddie’s placebo, it could sedate
Despite what the old man said

The old are weak
And the young are strong
So the former goes and does the latter wrong
So they can rest their feet

Sing them songs
Songs of hope

And when the worlds collide we’ll slip out through the back door
And build a zeppelin from tree bark and soot
And from ten thousand feet we’ll keep an observant eye while screening
Shirley MacLaine films so look

I don’t know
What I’ve been told
Or I do but it don’t make sense at all
Decipher Alowicious fib

Newspaper
You’ll tell me the news
But you will not say what I should do
‘Cept maybe switch my bank

Nursery rhyme
Will you put me to bed?
Will you make it easier to rest my head?
Could I lose myself in thought?

Sing you songs
Songs I wrote

And near the end of time when technological feats
Have rendered human existence remote
We will find an ocean six feet underneath ground
And live forever at peace by the coast

Albert Camus
You came down from the sky
And sang gospel songs just to pass the time
You’re an easy-going guy

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from The Divided Demos, released February 2, 2010

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Alex Grantham Toronto, Ontario

Every last thing has to go.

Drawing equally on the lyrical density of 60s Dylan, the anti-establishment libertarian sentiments of punk-rock and the experimental leanings of a Jeff Tweedy or Scott Walker, Al Grantham weaves a unique tapestry of music and words. ... more

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