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The Deaf Want to Know

from Unfailurelessness by Landspeedrecord!

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THE DEAF WANT TO KNOW

The deaf want to know what I've been doing with my life.
How could I have worked so hard on nothing?
And all the years that have passed and the activity elapsed,
pouring my passion into such a dumb thing.

Please tell me that you care about the ones beyond repair
Because someone has to save me from my list
of things to do that I can't face and I am shamed into disgrace:
I crossed off nothing but there's nothing that I missed.

The dead want to know what I've been thinking to myself
when I stare out into space and look so sour.
I want to help me and I will, but I'll guess I'll wait until
I can get around to that some other hour.

The illiterate want to read my ten steps to succeed,
I'll show them to you but only if you're blind.
I wrote them down in braille. I'll send you the xerox in the mail.
Run your grubby fingers on them and tell me what you find.

THE DEAF THEY CANNOT HEAR AND I KILLED ANOTHER YEAR
WE'RE ALL IMPAIRED IF YOU'RE SCARED THAT YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE JOKE IS

C'MON AND LAUGH WITH ME C'MON AND LAUGH WITH ME
LAUGH! IT'S FUCKING FUNNY THAT THE DEAF WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE JOKE IS.

THE JOKE IS THIS MELODY IF YOU CAN'T HEAR IT YOU ARE FREE -
IF YOU'RE ILLITERATE AND DEAF THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY WHAT THE JOKE IS.

C'MON AND LAUGH WITH ME C'MON AND LAUGH WITH ME C'MON AND LAUGH WITH ME
THE DEAF WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE JOKE IS. The A&R man wants to know where all the coke is.

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from Unfailurelessness, released January 1, 2009

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Landspeedrecord! Baltimore, Maryland

LandSpeedRecord! was founded in 1996, a combination of the Baltimore post-punk bands OCTOPUS, GLAZERIDE, and BUTTSTEAK. LandSpeedRecord! is the parental unit and mental health physician of front person/guitarist Charley Jamison, drummer Marc Berrong, bassist Thomas Stehr, guitarists/noise-ists Ron Spencer and Nathan Bell. ... more

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