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The Book of Complaints

by Melancholy Robot

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1.
me too thanks 03:09
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Don’t wanna be Part of your club Just wanna pretend i’m cool With the useless things you do And the pride That spills from your face Is driving me to laugh But all I can feel is pain ‘Cause i’m trying To play-ay To the songs you’re sing-ing But all i can hear is tape As it pulls, tangles, and breaks Yeah, yeah, me too, thanks Yeah, yeah, me too, thanks I’m gonna waste All of my life Shitposting memes online And feeding off that high Everyday Is exactly the same So why should I pretend That I feel anything All the lines are pres-ent But the file’s corrupt-ed And it’s forcing all of me to say That we’re all to fucking blame I believe that I’m lame I believe that i’ve done nothing right I just want you to say want you to say that I’m not a lost cause Every time we relate I realize we’re deeper down this hole A hole we dug for ourselves With shovels made of hopes to fall We’ll fall We’ll fall We’ll falllllllllll - in Yeah, yeah, me too, thanks Yeah, yeah, me too, thanks
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Too Dumb to Breathe 02:38
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You wanna fuck with me? Well man that’s a bad idea Maybe you’re just too dumb to breathe How’s it feel man how does it feel Feel when you can’t even guess guess anything you want to know Know that i can’t help you You’re brain is already out to dry I don’t care how you make your deals I really want none of this You’re trine to reinvent the wheel I really want none of this Your brain is your achille’s heel I really want none of this Your pile of money is your shield I really want none. Of. this. Or maybe you’re just out of your goddamn mind Yeah I don’t think you understand What it means man, what does it mean when you say you have what it takes What’s that mean man, what does that mean mean when you’ve never had a thought thought about anything at all you’ve had it all handed to you Hope you choke on your silver spoon I don’t care how you make your deals I really want none of this You’re trine to reinvent the wheel I really want none of this Your brain is your achille’s heel I really want none of this Your pile of money is your shield I really want none. Of. this. Or maybe you’re just out of your goddamn mind Yeah
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What You're Saying 01:44
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What you’re saying (What you’re saying) Trouble following your words And I hear (What you’re doing) Making messes out of all that’s around you So I’m cowering in fear What you’re saying (What you’re saying) Got a problem with your words And I see (What you’re doing) When you’re spouting all the lies You told us just to get the dumb ones on your side no rights low-life fuck-off so please take him back What you’re saying (What you’re saying) Got to add up all the things That you do (That you do) So we remember when you try to erase them Or try to cover them up What you’re saying (What you’re saying) And I’m saying to myself What you do (What you do when you got nothing left to lose) When you’ve got nothing left to lose We’ve got to stand up to the ones who put us down no rights low-life fuck-off so please take him back What you're saying to me Isn't putting me at ease What you're saying to me Isn't happening to please What you're saying What you're saying What you're saying
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Anarchy 02:00
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i really really wanna know why our rights are being overthrown i have a feeling that they shouldn’t be so I’m brewing in some anarchy you’ll get it when you try to fight that no one cares if the rules are right the big wigs all cashed out their souls so let’s take back everything they stole I live in counties by the sea Just me and my obscurity I’m sleeping under every tree Just being who I wanna be YAGH Do you think I wanna die? I can teach you how to fly Can’t you see I’m on a roll Don’t talk to me, I’ll lose control HEGHY i really think i wanna go break some shit until i’m comatose I have an impulse and it’s gonna be Participating in some anarchy you’ll get it when you try to fight that no one cares if the rules are right the big wigs all cashed out their souls so let’s take back everything they stole
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Bad Haircut 01:39
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Now it’s too late Yeah it’s too late For rights or wrongs The damage has already been done This leads to nowhere It leads to nowhere But where else can we go? If everything was really truly fine Then maybe no one would ever have the mind That we’re all just playing a zero sum Where every loser thinks their day will come Now we collapse in debt And all the fees opportunity brings You can’t be sick and poor so you must succumb to the fire We bleed for nothing We bleed for nothing But what else can we do? If everything was really truly fine Then maybe no one would ever have the mind That we’re all just playing a zero sum Where every loser thinks their day will come
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Evicted! 01:44
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No money here we’re running out of funds We’ll figure out another way How will we ever last another month We got to find a way to pay without Breaking the bank Don’t worry kids I got another job And mom is working overtime But soon we might just have to move away Cause if we don’t there will be hell to pay Breaking the bank
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Everything's My Fault 02:49
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What’s it mean when you fail everything you do I take the blame a lot ‘Cause everything’s my fault Trying to replace myself in time Wanna see the end the end doesn’t seem bad anymore Wanna see it end Now Why’d you try to prove That no one cares for you You found yourself a loss Now everything’s your fault Trying to replace ourselves in time Wanna see the end the end doesn’t seem bad anymore Wanna see it end Now
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Screwup 04:08
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Ran into you again Been awhile So why did you pretend You don’t know me now sorry i did the same but you know that i don’t really wanna seem Like a hanger-on Existential differential passive lacking energy superficial No potential double down on lethargy sleep desired routine tired happiness beyond opaque Tell me brother why’d you bother when’d you get so far ahead of me Forcing me to see my inadequacy Here’s to the days Long ago from now I know what to change But I don’t know how Falling over every trial And the fight inside of me Everyone is getting over it maybe now it’s time i changed Loneliness is Tearing me apart And leading me astray Sorry brother Don’t be bothered HooooOOOhhooOOooo (also will) HoooooOOooooo
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Anxiety 02:52
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What d’you think What d’you think about this kind of life Where I don’t ever seem to have the time To make sense of anything Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Want to fall until i’m up again grind my teeth until they’re flat and thin ‘Cause there’s something wrong with me Oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Wanna be wanna be some part of normal life Want to go outside and share the light Like there’s nothing wrong with me Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Want to break until i’m whole again Tape my faults glue stick my heart to mend Everything that’s wrong with me Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Wanna leave Wanna leave all of this all behind You know i’ll try Try to say i’ve put up with enough But you’ll call my bluff Oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
10.
Fall Apart 04:32
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how’d you get to be such a goddamn wreck, it’s like you aren’t a living person anymore When i’m with you So don’t Don’t fall down ‘Cause i know you’ll fall apart How’d we get to be so broken and disheveled, all the time it's like we don't know why we're even here waiting for the end So don’t Don’t fall down ‘Cause i know we’ll fall apart And you know what i’ve been through ‘Cause it’s all the same to you I just don’t know why I even try When everything is useless, god Why'd you give me troubles With only Death to follow A shitty body built to fail With consciousness to feel it all Default idolising to Receive the love of fearing you Or damn us all to brave the fall down to hell where we will call Foul play and plead our innocence But all our cries were silenced in the maw We'll fall We'll fall We'll fall We'll fall

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This album was a collaboration between Bijan, Will, Elwin, and Rayan. Many hours throughout the past year were spent working through these songs, recording them, and getting them mixed/mastered. We hope you enjoy them.

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released October 18, 2017

Recorded in my bedroom.

Mix & master: Mitch Zelezny

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