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Soft Sun Spots

from Tough by Bubblegum Octopus

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    Released in 2015, Tough is a compilation album covering the first ten years of Bubblegum Octopus, entirely comprised of brand new material, old unreleased songs, rarities, remixes, and new arrangements of oldies.

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Continuing in the theme of songs with perhaps more silly exteriors than their actual subject matter, this is a song I wrote in 2010, first for a split with Watabou, then it got bumped to Bad Happy, then it got bumped to "I can't ever know things".
Now it's been bumped to Tough.
I play this one a lot, especially in 2013, and it seems to get a pretty good response consistently, with people asking me about it specifically.

The song is almost entirely about some full blown paranoid delusions I was having in 2007/2008. I was sane enough to know they were not something other people would be happy about, but not sane enough to think it was completely irrational.

lyrics

Soft sun spots
Things above are helping me by staying cool
Don't melt me, I don't want to be the same as some damn ice cube
She used to have such clean white teeth, what exactly happened?

I sit alone, I'm doing nothing
Talking to my friends, telling them that I've just been so god damn busy I haven't been free. No. Not. Never.
But in truth I have just been sitting, locked up in my room, staying awake
Asking the scientists, programmers, please just spare my life, I'm a copy

Will you wait? I'll show you
Just you wait. I'll feel you.

Drink coffee
Yes, I think I'm normal now
Play baseball
Yes, I think, I'm good enough
I'd take a break from watching people, never saying a thing

What you do now is as weak as lying
I know in fact that I'm not above crying

I sit alone, I'm doing nothing
Talking to my friends, telling them that I've just been so god damn busy I haven't been free. No. Not. Never.
I'm not alone, I'm never alone.
I'm not alone, I'm never alone.

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from Tough, released April 4, 2015

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(2005 - FOREVER)

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