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Brian's Dream

by Jemmy Joe

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1.
Everybody 03:20
Subtle Joy is screaming at people passing by "Don't flinch in fear Come! Look me in the eye My frame it is is failing My condition has no cure My body may be broken But I'm still here" Sad Eye Smile says his dad's his best friend You gotta look away, afraid how this will end Admiring abandoning Soft Sand King? Your future looks bright kid If you survive the spring Everybody's doing the best that they can Quick to Laugh cries "All men are trash!" And tells her sob stories to Living In The Past Nana just sighs, "so it goes, so it goes Don't tell it to me, child You're telling the one who knows" Loudest In The Room is trying to make a change But it never really stuck, just made her feel strange Some truths you know from childhood Some lies hold as firm Quiet she confesses Which is which she couldn't learn Everybody's doing the best that they can Look Em In The Eye is standing very still Writing everything down he sees from his window sill But it wasn't stream of consciousness That was steady glued The thoughts in his head are the only thing that never moved Everything that Golden Boy touches turns to shit But the only thing this niño cares about is getting his jimmy licked He sobs and he sighs "It is what it is" I walk among you But I will not walk with Everybody's doing the best that they can Damaged Goods is singing songs about his first go About how the dust was settled and the seeds that we sow But Nobody's listening No One is there Nobody paid attention And No One cared So And So is so alive Her thoughts are all on fire If she ever told the truth You'd call her a liar But she put it on a poster She whispered to the kids "Teach it to the teachers Never keep a fire hid" Everybody's doing the best that they can
2.
Sing Us a song Something of us Yet beyond us Say Something true That we've never heard But almost knew Heard like the siren before the flood Wrapped in linen and soaked in blood They want to hear the song Play Like a knife Stabbing chords Bringing the dead back to life Strum Like the end Translating static so We can comprehend Heard like the silence before the flood Looks like violence and Feels like love They want to hear the song Come As you aren't Help confuse the meaning Of the art Tell Tell us lies Come in a form that's pleasing Please deceive me Heard like the siren before the flood Bright as angels and clear as mud They want to hear the song
3.
Everything is perfect All according to the plan No questions asked No answers given There's nothing to understand Everything is perfect All the people agree Upon a star a dream was wished upon And that's this all came to be It's like people say They say it every change they get "No one's human And everyone is perfect" They say... Everyone is perfect See the banners unfurl No one's curious about alternatives The best of possible worlds
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Pretty Polly 02:56
Polly, pretty Polly, come along with me Polly, pretty Polly, come along with me Before we get married/ some please to see Jumped up behind him and away they go Jumped up behind him and away they go Down to the valley/ The forest below Went a little further and what did they spy? Went a little further and what did they spy? But a new grave/ with a spade laying by "Willie, oh Willie, I'm afraid of your ways. Willie, oh Willie, I'm afraid of your ways. I'm so afraid I have led you astray." "Polly, pretty Polly, you guessed just about right. Polly, pretty Polly, yo guessed justabout right. I dug your grave for the most of last night." Stabbed her in the heart and the blood it did flow Stabbed her in the heart and the blood it did flow And pretty Polly fell to her grave below A debt to the devil we all must pay A debt to the devil we all must pay For killing pretty Polly and running away
6.
I talked to a woman who was visiting Olympia from Portland I said "What do the people there in the big city say lil ol' Oly?" She said "The coffee's good. It's full of hippies. And the roller derby teams play dirty." She was roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia I talked to this other girl and she grew up here. I asked her "What's the local perspective of Oly. Vibe check!" She said "Its trying to be a big city, likes to pretend it is and maybe just day it just might. But right now you can't get boba tea at midnight" She was roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia You got the Evergreener transplants Mingling with the army brat State workers and tribal folks Local farmers and townie yolks All roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia
7.
If you close your eyes You will sleep You will sleep and dream Go to sleep Go to sleep Go to sleep And go dream If you go to sleep You will dream You will dream of me Go and dream Go and dream Go and dream Dream of me If you dream of me We will sing We will sing this song Let's go sing Let's go sing Let's go sing Sing this song If you sing this We will dream We will dream of sleep We will dream We will dream Dream of sleep When you dream of sleep Open your eyes Open your eyes and wake We will wake We will wake We will wake Open Your Eyes
8.
Everyone is going to die You’ll never read all the books that you buy Some problems can’t be solved no matter what we do Somebody’s therapist knows all about you. It’s true that you aren’t the worst thing you did But that don’t make it any easier to forgive. You have always believed some lie Some people you care for will just fade from your life You’ll never stop hurting the people that you love Your government's doing horrible things that you’ll never hear of You can’t do some things no matter how you try You also don’t know how much you can accomplish Before you die Oh Oh We're all fucked Oh Oh Its hard not to feel a little stuck Some people don’t like you for good reason too You’ll forget some times that once meant the world to you Everyone you trust will eventually disappoint Life isn’t a story There is no point You’ll never know how the next death make will make you feel You can’t prepare This shit is real. Oh Oh We're all fucked Oh Oh Its hard to feel that we're not all out of luck And that's okay
9.
I'm not sentimental But sometimes I walk I walk in the rain A man of man hats That's a known fact But never are they plain Haters gonna hate Cuz they can't explain That which can't be tamed But my thoughts burst free Like blossoms in the season They can't be contained Its a many fine and course thread that makes a tapestry So why oh why Why oh why Why you trying to change me? This started before you got here It'll be going on when you're gone This started before you got here And I'm still going strong I got a sense of humor That's not quite normal My jokes get a stare and a blink But I always get a laugh Anytime people ask What I actually think I'm not like other girls People say "Me thinks thou protest too much" But I could not bring my passion from the common spring I'm not laying it on a touch Its a many fine and course thread that makes a tapestry So why oh why Why oh why Why you trying to change me? This started before you got here It'll be going on when you're gone This started before you got here And I'm still going strong This started before you got here It'll be going on when you're gone This started before you got here And I'm still going strong
10.
Subtle Joy is screaming at people passing by "Don't flinch in fear Come! Look me in the eye My frame it is is failing My condition has no cure My body may be broken But I'm still here" Sad Eye Smile says his dad's his best friend You gotta look away, afraid how this will end Admiring abandoning Soft Sand King? Your future looks bright kid If you survive the spring Everybody's doing the best that they can Quick to Laugh cries "All men are trash!" And tells her sob stories to Living In The Past Nana just sighs, "so it goes, so it goes Don't tell it to me, child You're telling the one who knows" Loudest In The Room is trying to make a change But it never really stuck, just made her feel strange Some truths you know from childhood Some lies hold as firm Quiet she confesses Which is which she couldn't learn Everybody's doing the best that they can Look Em In The Eye is standing very still Writing everything down he sees from his window sill But it wasn't stream of consciousness That was steady glued The thoughts in his head are the only thing that never moved Everything that Golden Boy touches turns to shit But the only thing this niño cares about is getting his jimmy licked He sobs and he sighs "It is what it is" I walk among you But I will not walk with Everybody's doing the best that they can Glitter Bomb believes in dope, not hope A real revolution, not more plastic hope She wanted it to be there She wanted it to help Call for the guillotine? Be guillotined yourself So And So is so alive Her thoughts are all on fire If she ever told the truth You'd call her a liar But she put it on a poster She whispered to the kids "Teach it to the teachers Never keep a fire hid" Everybody's doing the best that they can

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released November 24, 2023

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Jemmy Joe Olympia, Washington

Jemmy Joe is a twin. An unreliable narrator. An acquired taste. Mixing traditional folk, jazz harmonic taste and a sardonic optimism, Jemmy Joe has been making music for no one his entire, god damn adult life. Though he has very little to show for it, it is the train he is on and will not be jumping off any time soon. ... more

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