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In the Background

by Scott Lippitt

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1.
Great Fool 04:10
all these daydreams they amount to nothing i don’t even know what they mean cycling in my head for weeks all these big shots trying to make more than what they’ve got when really they aint got a lot their money and their body will rot primal feel it makes me want to scream well i am a great fool but i am grateful for eyes that let me see the scenery around me and i won’t pretend that i know whats going on but at the end of the day at least i can say that my heart’s full when i wake up i am in the same body i have got eyes that see grateful for everything please realize that we ourselves are gifts of life capitalism didn’t make the human eye i’ll leave that for you to decide primal feel it makes me want to scream well i am a great fool but i am grateful for eyes that let me see the scenery around me and i won’t pretend that i know whats going on but at the end of the day at least i can say that my heart’s full
2.
every day he sharpens his blades keeps the kitchen looking nice he stays fit he grows his ego even though his heart has grown cold he’s not free no matter how hard he tries to be he wants to be the best he’s obsessed the imperfect ghost comes right at him red sauce on his clothes now it’s got him he is losing control what a fortune maybe now he will have compassion he’s got somewhere to go he’s on the road one of his tires has gone flat he gets out of the car shuts the door so hard he scares off the help he would have had the imperfect ghost has found a new host and it’ll be here for a while until he learns to smile the imperfect ghost it comes right at him red sauce on his clothes now it’s got him he is losing control what a fortune maybe now he will have compassion it’s the only way to get rid of the ghost you reap what you sow the less you fear, the more you grow
3.
she puts her hands up on the wall pulls her feet up, starts to feel tall she’s got to find the point where she can balance it all because if her foot slips, she’s going to fall the fear digs in her chest and finds a home she has got a freedom addiction it’s too late now, she’s trusting the friction she’s got to find something that can hold her weight the flakes are pretty thin, they might break she’s feeling okay but not great she has got a need to feel free throws her fear to the wind and looks out over the trees she’s not coming down unless she slips and falls hopefully today that is not in her cards she’s halfway up, but halfway away her fingers ache and her leg starts to shake is this what it takes, is this what makes freedom over fear feel so great? put your body in harms way and make it out safe? she has got a need to feel free throws her fear to the wind and looks out over the trees she’s not coming down unless she slips and falls hopefully today that is not in her cards she has got a need to feel free throws her fear to the wind and looks out over the trees she’s not coming down unless she slips and falls hopefully today that is not in her cards ooh to the top won’t you take me there?
4.
there is truth to time and unstoppable motion well things come and they go some fast some slow there is truth to life and unstoppable emotions well they rise and they fall some short some tall i just want to fall apart let the breeze flow through me yeah let the sun just take me away i’m finally free we’re all building a story at least that’s what we think but the past is past and the future cannot be grasped i talk about change but i hate it when things do it’s so ironically true just between me and you i just want to fall apart let the breeze flow through me yeah let the sun just take me away i’m finally free i just want to fall apart let the breeze flow through me yeah let the sun just take me away i’m finally free
5.
i’m like you and you and you we’ve all got something we want to prove no longer will i be a martyr i’m growing up, now i’m smarter i sometimes dream in the color green you would understand if you knew what i mean to say or if i knew anyway it’s funny how it all fades away but i can be so much more than just your lefthand glove and i can be so much more than just your background love it’s not enough my feelings float just like a cloud move just as fast, strike just as loud so buy some land and build a house close the doors and lock your mouth she says “i love you” and he does too but they close the doors, all but a few she moved on, he’s read the news there is nothing left to do it’s funny how it all fades away but i can be so much more than just your lefthand glove and i can be so much more than just your background love it’s not enough
6.
Bald Guy 06:00
i used to know a man who shaved his head he went over to Asia to find his way ooh he was looking for perfection what a fool cause there is no such thing he came back to the states and called his friends he said “i must have made a mistake” “i didn’t find the way” his friends all said to him “you were looking in the wrong place” “ooh you were looking for perfection” “what a fool” “cause there is no such thing” well he was a good man but he didn’t understand he was just a man woah his mind shone like the sun but he didn’t understand there’s no perfection
7.
Dissolution 06:16
we all have a mind we call our own sometimes we call it “me” well most of us don’t mind our minds but i probably spend too much time minding my mind i sit and try to make things different but control is just an illusion we all are free it’s just that we can’t see see that we’re free all of sudden i feel better like your arm around my shoulder or putting on a fuzzy sweater yeah well i feel better so much better i ask my mind “who am I?” and wait patiently for a reply what i hear is “i am you” but how can that be true? there can’t be two i try to control what i think in pops a picture of the kitchen sink i bet even you can’t not think of that metal kitchen sink we don’t control what we think all of a sudden i feel better like the smell of lovely lavender or spending time with my mom dad and brother oh i feel better oh so much better oh better
8.
take your time love your life you will die love your life listen to the silence and if you feel the way i do then you will hold on the day is long but you are strong and you will hold on the day you left i realized something we are always dying but we’re always birthing take your time love the mom of this earth and of your own listen to the silence ooh and if you feel the way i do then you will hold on the day is long but you are strong and you will hold on the day i left i listened to the sound peace comes from within not without

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released May 6, 2016

written/performed - Scott Lippitt
produced/mixed/mastered - Nick Seman
art - Corey Lippitt

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