A Cure For Cowards

from Death, The Weather & Girls, Girls, Girls! by Jake Joyce McCoy & The Mean Mean Reds

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From the bottom of a foggy past
All the refuse of our teeming shores
That's where our tale begins
Dipped into the River Styx
I've weathered the storm
The wolves are at your door
Open up and let me in
Then suddenly in private
Well it seems he's not so tough
But I've got the guts to lay in wait
All I need to know is that we've settled the score
Because the old idea is getting such a bore
I'll amuse all the dancing fools
I'll do whatever pleases me
If it doesn't hurt no one
A mad scientist mixing midnight oil
I'm dreaming up a remedy
A cure for everyone
Tempest in a tea kettle
Testing my mettle
Reading lines from my palm
Seduced by the Whore of Babylon
She's a pistol
A dynamo
But I've got my steady on my arms
She tells me things she thinks
She's pretty and peeking through a hole
And I can't afford to live there anymore
The walls are paper thin
And the neighbors a creep
Rent's dirt cheap
But it ain't free
I need space and natural light
Spines of books stacked in a row
Like decorative furnishings
A king piling up his earnings
If there's something in those pages worth me learning
To keep it quiet is just burning
The run-out groove of a siren songs sweetest release
I'd sooner listen all by myself
All I need to know is that there's something more
Because the old idea is getting such a bore

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from Death, The Weather & Girls, Girls, Girls!, released February 10, 2023
Sister Jen - Vox
Ry Steffen - Drums

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Jake Joyce McCoy Crestone, Colorado

A moment ago this didn't exist and POW! Here it is. An enigmatic cartoon stumbled in from the wilderness claiming to have utilized wasted time wood-shedding songs from inside a vacuum. An insular world where locals talk about the weather, sports and who died. I want to talk about bigger things...and girls! ... more

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