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Shut Your Mouth and Eat Your Cake

by GayGuy/StraightGuy

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1.
Take a look around the world we live in such a lovely place full of everything we could ever need. It’s just a click away. Don’t you be concerned with any problems. Thats a waste of time. Theres no need to aggravate yourself when everything is fine. Serves us right. We’re the walking blind Converting you divert you from the truth one at a time Are you worried about the world you love? Here… Have a piece of cake. It’s delicious and there’s no reason you should deny it. It’s for you to take. Pat no attention to the ugliness that finds it’s way to you Just have another piece and have these shiny things We promise we’ll take care of you. Serves us right. We’re the walking blind.Ignore the truth your guts been telling you time after time Congratulations to the nations with their eyes on the ground. You remain what you perpetuate Just take the queues There’s nothing you can do Now shut your mouth and eat your cake.
2.
Nashville 02:51
How you gonna deal with all the crossroads in your life? Will you just blindly walk the line? You can never change a man who has made his mind. All you can do is step aside. He came from Nashville with some energy inside. The kind of vibe you can't deny. He can walk into a room and make it live...like you have never known People Come inside Come on and get some life People Come alive Come on and feel the vibe He comes from Wales; He's got some energy inside. And he has seen the other side. He can step onto a stage and do it right. Like you have never known Upon the last days that you have ever known... Upon the last days, they will have come and will have shown.
3.
Sinking Ship 04:20
Welcome all aboard this sinking ship. The one you’ve been dealing with. You can’t seem to get your mind off of it. Find yourself a seat, get comfortable. It will be a short while till the story plays itself out in full How long till we let go? Till we realize what we won’t know? When the winds come, and the winds blow to change the direction of this slowly sinking ship that we’ve all been living with. you wish you could find a way of stopping it. There no way we can know when the tides will come and then go What do you know? What do they know? There is no answer. We’re all passengers on a sinking ship. Might as well enjoy the trip. Only time will reveal the end of it. You’ve been riding out You can ride it out You can run ‘em out You can run it out You’ve been running out You could work it out. You’ve been running out.
4.
Have another bite of the food you’ve been enjoying anything you’d like it was purchased by your family don’t pay any mind to the ever creeping feeling that something isn’t right Everything is bright and wonderful Bombs away. Surprise! Happily subscribe. Bombs away. Have another sip of the drink you’ve been enjoying put it to your lips it was purchased by your family don’t pay any mind to the ever creeping feeling that something isn’t right Everything is bright and wonderful S.O.S. Goodbye! Happily subscribe.
5.
Movement 04:21
6.
Side to Side 02:41
We can move our thoughts in the night Move them from side to side try to build a pattern to ride a strategy to bring it to life Bring it to life While all the months pass by we just keep moving in the night carve then step back and refine no need to waste any time we need more time We try combining minds we operate at separate times anything that we can find to keep it feeling right It’s always new to you when someone runs it through a new machine a brand new thing an execution you’ve never seen It’s always new to you when someone runs it through the next best thing to come along and on and on and on and on… All our thoughts start down at the bottom We keep on pushing and pushing.
7.
Sign your name walk through the door patient you have been here before waiting for a perfect time cut the lights and then draw a line any day. What have you seen? figureheads with strange motives Reduce and rebuild what has been Following a darkened light blur the lines of wrong and right every way thats what will be
8.
Surf Puck 01:41
She made the air warm She made the air warmer Have your fun anyway it could possibly be found over or under the ground Head up and out steady your pace eyes dead ahead you need a reason to push or pull to move or wait worry…or don’t what does it matter? go clear a path go make a move now take a seat relax and reason with what you are what have you done? are you alive? can you begin to be?

about

Shut Your Mouth and Eat your Cake is a record full of songs that are anywhere from 1-4 years old. The theme is a bit scattered, so it was titled after the most prominent topic. The majority of the lyrics on this record (Eat Your Cake, Sinking Ship, Everything is Perfect, Reduce & Rebuild) is my (Nick) interpretation of how the US government would talk to us if it was a human being. To be more specific, a disinterested old man who can't believe that he needs tell his tale. Sarcastic and selfish, brutal and biting when he speaks, but there is a drop of excitement in his sarcasm because he knows what is coming...and it's incredibly beneficial for a very select and small group.

The rest of the record is more positive. It's actually almost the polar opposite of the 4 songs mentioned above.

Nashville is the oldest song on the record. It's about a few different guys I toured with years ago. They would fill up a room with happiness and positive energy, then did the same thing once they got out on stage and people loved it. It was inspiring and I was lucky to know them for a while.

Movement is about living in the moment, being content, and appreciating simplicity in your life. It was written while in a van driving west on I-8 from Phoenix to San Diego. There is a strip of that road that is all desert as far as you can see. After a few hours you drive into the mountains and watch the landscape continuously change until you reach San Diego.

Side to Side is about constantly trying to bring things to life. Anything. Your art, your work, your friendships. Trying to stay fresh and keep all things interesting is a daily challenge.

Surf Puck is about having scattered focus and trying to center yourself. The first few lines reflect a scattered mind. The end section is about trying to center and focus yourself. There was a short while when we were going to call the record "Begin to Be", but landed on SYMAEYC.

As always, thanks for listening.

Nick

credits

released May 3, 2016

Songs by Nick & Bob

Nick - Vox/Guitars
Bob - Drums

Recorded by Pat Noon at 8:16 recording in Bayville NJ
www.eightsixteen.com

Mixed by Paul Ritchie at Insidious Sound in Neptune NJ

Mastered by Alan Douches at west west side music.

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