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What Your Body Is

from LaughCry, SmartStupid​!​! by riot nrrd

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This song is about fish and birds and lemmings and cows and trees.
It is also about the tendency of the mind to cling to what it knows, the fractal nature of reality, the impressionistic and projective nature of mind, the trap of the fearful ego and its many pathetic and brave defences, conformity, and the breaking of old patterns.

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What Your Body Is

Your body is a flock of birds.
Your body is a school of fish.
It bends around predators
And it’s beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Your body is a time machine.
Your mind is a projection screen.
They record and play everything you’ve seen.
Has it been beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful?

‘Cuz everything you do
Grooves a mental groove.
And habits can ossify you
‘Til you cannot move.
Don’t be afraid, break your own chains –
You can do that thing you never do.
Don’t be ashamed, just walk away
From this minimum-security prison.

‘Cuz sometimes lemming-like
We walk in synchrony
Towards an edge we cannot see.
So walk carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully

And don’t you know that a well-fed cow
When faced with an open gate
Will stand and stare and masticate?
So feed consciously, consciously, consciously, consciously, consciously

‘Cuz everything you do
Grooves a mental groove.
And habits can ossify you
‘Til you cannot move.
Don’t be afraid, break your own chains –
You can do that thing you never do.
Don’t be ashamed, just walk away
From your minimum-security prison.

My family is a copse of trees
Dancing with the breeze.
If we don’t bend, we break
So we dance supplely, supplely, supplely, supplely, supplely

‘Cuz everything we do
Grooves a mental groove.
And habits can ossify us
‘Til we cannot move.
We’re not afraid, break our own chains –
We can do that thing we never do.
We’re not ashamed, we just walk away
From this minimum-security prison.
Walk away from this minimum-security prison.
Minimum-security prison
Minimum-security prison

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from LaughCry, SmartStupid​!​!, released May 29, 2019
Conrad Sichler - vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitars, harmonica, drums, percussion
Andrew Marshall - bass
Dave Gould - drums

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riot nrrd Hamilton, Ontario

riot nrrd was spawned in Winnipeg, Manitoba where he hung out with and played music with some of the members of The Weakerthans and Propogandhi. Many years and travels later, he landed in Hamilton, Ontario, where he released settle in 2014 and LaughCry, SmartStupid!! in 2019, joining 'free of the suburban dream' from 1999. riot nrrd is like riot grrrl, but for nerds. ... more

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