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Goodbye Light (God's Fake Laser)

from Bad Happy by Bubblegum Octopus

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about

This is a song about the origins of my desire to write music like this. It's about playing on my dad's Korg X2 workstation in the basement of our old house and getting positively swept up in the sounds, writing songs to accompany the enveloping stories of my imagination.
The opening riff is something I wrote when I was 9 or 10.

The God's Fake Laser subtitle comes from the fact that I felt like the songs sounded similar and evoked related, but different colored shapes in my synesthesia. It also happens at a similar time in the scheme of the album's structure.

lyrics

I look back on every thing that I have done 'til now and I see that I can never feel the same way again

I'm sitting down in the basement, one twenty eight sounds are filling my head
And then I break, a sacred bank. I'm pleasantly lost.

My fighter plane into the sky
I'm over cities in the dark
My battle tank through desert lands
We all roll out the spotlights on
Feudal method of combat wins
Hot blades they can destroy cold guns
Fighting is wrong but so is God
He lied to me he double crossed


I hate the stars (I hate the stars)
Drown the sun (drown the sun)
Crush the moon (crush the moon)
Defenseless now (I'm left unsheltered)

Light destroyed (light destroyed)
Blackened heart (blackened heart)
Laser was just a gun
Lasers made to raze this bubble

Now I just think, I just worry
I never rest so I can't dream
There is no fight, no bravery
I'm no white knight, I'm barely here

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from Bad Happy, released March 18, 2011
Composition, lyrics, vocals, keys, production - Matthew "m@ the c@" Morden

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REJECT IRONY,
EMBRACE DISCOMFORT!

LOVING BLISS & CHAOS AT LIGHTSPEED!!~

SPAZZPOP
(2005 - FOREVER)

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