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The strangest thing is where I am
And also who I am right now
I cannot recall what happened
It seems to be a blur to me
Nothing is what I want in life
So who changed my philosophy
The existential crisis
Removed my body from my mind

I'm still starring down the barrel it's a bitter end
Emotions high, and tensions rise I'm 'bout to paint it red
My poverty philosophy of existential dread
That keeps me going but I wonder will I see the end

Too much pride so I endure I chose to bleed it out
Triumphant beyond the grave, no I don't have no doubts
Sinny born for this, I bleed for this I'm that devout
Ain't no bitch up in my blood and I can show you how

It's always something, fuck this shit oh god, I'm crashin' out
Don't call my phone when I am up bitch I'm not hanging out
Self isolate, I stay away I never fuck with y'all
Only time y'all showin' up is when that fuckin' drama call

I been at this shit for years so whatchu know about it
I hear a hater talkin' shit I got the scope about it
M14 I'm zero'd in and I got D.O.P.E about it
Born to kill, I bring the pain you don't want smoke about it

Bitter end
You meet your bitter end
Bitter end
You meet your bitter end

Bitter end
You meet your bitter end
Bitter end
You meet your bitter end

I'm still starring down the barrel it's a bitter end
Emotions high, and tensions rise I'm 'bout to paint it red
My poverty philosophy of existential dread
That keeps me going but I wonder will I see the end

‘Cause everything is going insane around me
I need you to hold me down please
My tendency to capitulate
Let life carry me away
I'm drowning
That's why I need you to ground me

My friend said to me
I got no humility 
I need some stability
Loneliness is killing me
Like it's meant to be
You cuff me and now I'm free
I surrender willingly

Blame it on the stars
Blame it on the moon 
Blame it on the way the planets move
Blame it on the way the ocean pulls 
Blame it on your chart
Blame it on the cards
Baby, I blame it all on you
You're my stars and you're my moon 
You're gravity 
You're gravity 

Got lost in philosophy 
The existential thoughts I'd seen nearly broke me 
That's why I need you to hold me

My friend said to me
I got no humility 
I need some stability
Loneliness is killing me
Like it's meant to be
You cuff me and now I'm free
I surrender willingly

Blame it on the stars
Blame it on the moon 
Blame it on the way the planets move
Blame it on the way the ocean pulls
Blame it on your chart
Blame it on the cards
Baby, I blame it all on you
You're my stars and you're my moon 
You're gravity
You're gravity

My whole life I'd been up, upside down
I got lost, but look what I found

Blame it on the stars
Blame it on the moon 
Blame it on the way the planets move
Blame it on the way the ocean pulls 
Blame it on your chart
Blame it on the cards
Baby, I blame it all on you
You're my stars and you're my moon 
You're gravity
You're gravity

Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Space all you see, it seems to me obsolete, sip a cup of tea
Pray with me, ASAP philosophy, this existential crisis I have
It means nothing, checkmate degree Shake the earthquakes, hyperbole
Demonstrate, celebrate, birthday cake
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Whatever, I don't care never mind, never there
But I'm still presently here for you to hear
All of my thoughts up in my head for this song
To have lyrics to say for me to sing this song
When you hear it play when it's the wrong song
and you meant to play another song
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
Fly away with me fly away with me
While they sing their songs
We still sing along
We still sing along
We still sing along
Where are my wings when I need it the most
Sometimes my heart is shattered across the floor
Covered up pieces of broken glass
Sharp enough to slice a rope
Picking up pieces like I split a bag of Reese's Pieces
Fulfilling a purpose like I'm Mr.

Hello Out There

Hello Hello out there I was wondering how you're doing
Do you still care or is it only yourself that you're fooling                

Jody had it coming playing with loaded lovers
Blew her heart away now she's running for cover
I would try to help in any way I can 
But it's been to long a time and I ain't miracle man

They're scooping up the cash in the miracle marts
People want salvation just don't know where to start
The media is bleeding everything up dry
They package it so nicely first you laugh and then you cry

I have been trying for so long now
Getting things straight in my life
Maybe there ain't no use in worrying about it 
Maybe there ain't no wrong from right

Hello Hello out there I was wondering how you're doing
Do you still care or is it only yourself that you're fooling

From Mars to Manhattan the story still the same
We're scared to make decisions don't wanna face the blame
But sooner or later you gotta make a choice 
Whether to be walking or driving a Rolls Royce

Everything that I own I can carry in my hands
People see me on the street they don't want to understand
c guitar and a notebook is all I keep with me
I'm an existential dropout with a fractured philosophy 

I have been trying for so long now
Getting things straight in my life
Maybe there ain't no use in worrying about it 
Maybe there ain't no wrong from right

Hello Hello out there I was wondering how you're doing
Do you still care or is it only yourself that you're fooling

This my side, if you match the vibe then it's okay
Getting lit, kicking shit with your bitch it's oy vey
Step that shit aside
Keep the stock rims on the ride
Took some acid caught the high
Let me catch the vibe
Putting up the points I gotta win the MVP
Know it's only one of me but bitches call me three
Wanna take a trip I took bitch to Tennessee
Drowning these emotions mix the gin with Hennessy
So it goes, I'mma switch up my flow
Mix the addy with my coke
Clean on the scene no soap
Red wine night time that's right
And I still keep it real that's hype
Vetements Noah Off White
And ya hoe really like my pipe, existential crisis my life
This philosophy, this is my choice like democracy, I slid ya bitch no hypocrisy
And I smoke like I'm Socrates
Kicking shit like a soccer team
And I still got that Oscar dream
With ya bitch and she sponsor me
Do this shit so responsibly
Adding hoes to my team it's forreal yeah
She got the brain it's guaranteed yeah
My bitch hate me cuz all my greed
Mustache out like Apollo creed
This my side, if you match the vibe then it's okay
Getting lit, kicking shit with your bitch it's oy vey
Step that shit aside
Keep the stock rims on the ride
Took some acid caught the high
Let me catch the vibe
Putting up the points I gotta win the MVP
Know it's only one of me but bitches call me three
Wanna take a trip I took bitch to Tennessee
Drowning these emotions mix the gin with Hennessy
Look to the sky and I felt so alone
Homes where yo heart is well I have no home
Call to the void but I don't have no phone
Never was right so I do not know wrong
Let me bite on ya ear
Jimmy goin hard this year
Smash on ya bitch like beer
Move too fast light year
And I'm still wet right here
Still get her wet right here
Play like a vet right here
You cannot cop my gear
Thrice
In the space
Bitch get out my face
Acid take taste
Don't let it go to waste
Money in the safe
Tryna cop the wraith
Everything is great
This my side, if you match the vibe then it's okay
Getting lit, kicking shit with your bitch it's oy vey
Step that shit aside
Keep the stock rims on the ride
Took some acid caught the high
Let me catch the vibe
Putting up the points I gotta win the MVP
Know it's only one of me but bitches call me three
Wanna take a trip I took bitch to Tennessee
Drowning these emotions mix the gin with Hennessy

Pedestrian at Best

Courtney Barnett

Triple J Hottest 100, Vol. 23

2016

It won't be with me on my deathbed, but I'll still be in your head

Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint you
Tell me I'm exceptional, I promise to exploit you
Give me all your money, and I'll make some origami, honey
I think you're a joke, but I don't find you very funny

My internal monologue is saturated analog
It's scratched and drifting, I've become attached to the idea
It's all a shifting dream, bittersweet philosophy
I've got no idea how I even got here
I'm resentful, I'm having an existential time crisis
Want bliss, daylight savings won't fix this mess
Under-worked and over-sexed, I must express my disinterest
The rats are back inside my head, what would Freud have said?

Pedestrian at Best

Courtney Barnett

2016 Grammy Nominees

2016

It won't be with me on my deathbed, but I'll still be in your head

Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint you
Tell me I'm exceptional, I promise to exploit you
Give me all your money, and I'll make some origami, honey
I think you're a joke, but I don't find you very funny

My internal monologue is saturated analog
It's scratched and drifting, I've become attached to the idea
It's all a shifting dream, bittersweet philosophy
I've got no idea how I even got here
I'm resentful, I'm having an existential time crisis
Want bliss, daylight savings won't fix this mess
Under-worked and over-sexed, I must express my disinterest
The rats are back inside my head, what would Freud have said?

My ego panicked, wanted to know the time
I silenced it and focused on inside

Only when you have completely understood your own anxieties,
Desires, contradictions and pain, can you begin to help people in a true sense

I thought I was better then them
in every way
I lacked the common sense to rationalize
My harder days

I thought i was growing and turned
Into a decent man
But I read some other things
Practise had showed me lands

The holy man uses the soap
And dryer fan
He looked at me and said You
Can't pray with piss on your hands

I recognized the essence of
His sentence, yes I did
My intentions, with purity
To remove self-centredness

This isn't like all the times
That I used half a mind to do it
My intention with this writing is
To actually go through it

I don't meditate for pleasure
I do it for familiarity
I watch the under lying patterns that
Inhabit and inspire me

I can watch them, but won't judge them
So I can understand their power
It might take me minutes, seconds
Days or only an hour

I will free myself
So I can find a way to make peace
With everyone I know I've hurt
And everyone who is me

The holy man uses the soap
And dryer fan
Looked at me and said you can't
Pray with piss on your hands

I understood the essence
Of his sentence, yes I did
I will use all of my power
To liberate from selfishness

It was last summer, my pride
Was causing me to miss it
I owe thanks to her for
Ignoring my impositions

I said I loved her because
I thought it was compassion
But my intentions weren't pure
It was unhealthy attachment

Just a narrative I made
Once again I owe her blessings
The extreme nature of it
Made it easier confessing

All the lies, blows, highs, lows
Shit I made her go through
When she just had a break up
What the fuck was she supposed to do

Love you, touch you
Be therappiness was linked
Tee to indulge you
It's this kind of thinking
That finally made her judge you

I was thinking somehow that our
Hll me that isn't the most
Narcissistic shit there is

The holy many uses the soap
And dryer fan
Looked at me and said you can't pray
With piss on your hands

I understood the essence
Of his sentence, yes I get it
I can liberate us all
If I achieve transcendence

I fixate, I'm obsessed
Compelled to write about it
I never thought some holy thoughts like this
Would ever come from silence

I never thought I'd bypass
Existential purpose
But my philosophy
Transcends shit like purpose at the surface

I can flourish
If I can stop the self from trying to dominate
And help the world in ways I can't
With speaking, I'll find other ways

To act without an action
That is originated by passion
Desires and deep attachment
To nothing that's ever lasting

The holy man uses the soap
And dryer and fan
He looked at me and said you can't pray
With piss on your hands

I looked at him and said
I understand I get the essence
I'll wash my hands in silence
Look at the self for transcendence

You can't do this
Look at yourself
It's stupid
How you supposed to help
When you can't help yourself

You should go fuck yourself
Maybe you need some help
I bet you seek the pain in others
So you can gain yourself

You fucking hypocrite
How longs it been?

(Verse 2)
No more Zarathustra, just pick and rolls,
Philosophy textbooks replaced with athletic goals.
He found the Übermensch in a layup's grace,
A court of chaos, a Nietzschean embrace.

Mum needs to make a cookie batch
Dad needs a Lucky and a match
And you have an itch you just can't scratch
Existential egg that just won't hatch

Chains
I put you all in chains for me
Fame
I try to keep out of the way
I don't wanna be afraid of my own head
Slave to my internal incarnation
I don't wanna be afraid to walk away from you

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Pain
I put you all in pain for me
Change
You told me you'd help me change
I don't wanna be afraid of my best friend
Searching for some existential affirmation
I don't wanna be afraid to walk away from you

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Through all of these things, oh
You're still trying to find your happy
Ever after

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Chains
I put you all in chains for me
Fame
I try to keep out of the way
I don't wanna be afraid of my own head
Slave to my internal incarnation
I don't wanna be afraid to walk away from you

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Pain
I put you all in pain for me
Change
You told me you'd help me change
I don't wanna be afraid of my best friend
Searching for some existential affirmation
I don't wanna be afraid to walk away from you

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Through all of these things, oh
You're still trying to find your happy
Ever after

Bow down to me, philosophy, fall to my knees
Baby you know I'm not alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight
I'll leave you knocking at my door, falling on the floor, asking for more
Cause I don't wanna be alright
And I'm not coming home after tonight

Through engaging lectures, Solomon introduces us to influential existential thinkers, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, clbert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir.

My mind is hazin', so many phrases
Can’t find my way in, am I enough
Is that enough
Yeah, I can’t believe it
The way I’ve been feeling
If this is all a dream, I just wanna wake up
Wake me the hell up
Yeah, cuz
I am in a crisis, but it isn't existential
Nothing has a meanin' less you doin' it like I do
Find your purpose in the Chaos
People always telling me politically correct it
Start speakin' my philosophy and people get to runnin, ah
They go runnin, ah
Cuz', we all got s**t we gotta deal with
Got so much love that’s the realest
We all got pain
But, how you gonna deal with it today
Gonna deal with it today
Gonna deal with it today
How you gonna deal with it today
Gonna deal with it today
Gotta find the better parts of me

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty
The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head

There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization
His personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature

For instance, the fans understand this stuff
They have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes
To realize that they're not just funny, they say something deep about life

As a consequence, people who dislike Rick & Morty truly are idiots
Of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humor in Rick's existential catchphrase
Wubba lubba dub dub, which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons

I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion
As Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens
What fools, how I pity them

They say you only get one life
But mine is like a billion lives
Skinny til they fed me lies
On a sunset beach
In my darkest times
She lives on sunny side
She always know what I like
But she don't love me all the time
She only love me like a drug when I get her high
Filling up her body
With my body
Go as deep as it gets
Whole world chase control
Fame, money and sex
I'm in an existential crisis like you don't understand
I'm talking bout new truths
Connect us to heaven like bluetooth
Live like a god amongst men
Millions of fans
Hey that's the plan
It's not who I am
Everybody know me right
But ain't nobody know me right
Treat me like they do online
They drag my name through the mud
Like I'm hell on fire
But when I was a youth, a child
I couldn't ever get it right
I couldn't keep my head on tight
I always dreamt to the sky
Now I'm losing my mind
Wanna be somebody
Hide the bodies
All this blood on my hands
Whole world chase control
Fame, money and sex
I'm in an existential crisis like you don't understand
I'm talkin bout new truths
Connect us to heaven like bluetooth
Live like a god amongst men
Millions of fans
Hey that's the plan
It's not who I am
Is that who you are
Is this this who you love
Is that who you wanted to be
When you dreamt up this new philosophy
And we own this
Hold this
Want this all in a dream
Whole world chase control
Fame, money and sex
I'm in an existential crisis like you don't understand
I'm talking bout new truths
Connect us to heaven like bluetooth
Live like a god amongst men
Millions of fans
Hey that's the plan
But it's not my ambition
Or rendition of vision
That something fictitious
Could be this damn vicious
I'm choked
On a rope
Let me go
I don't want this no more
All these clones
Like hey Boba Fett
Run off the set
Cashing the check
Say bye to my friends
Hop on the jet
Make some new plans
Try to change what I am

Living in false reality, nothing is real
Go tear open your computer screen and the black pill
Take the guts and bones right out of me
Hollow point shell
I'm Injecting my philosophy +++

How much brain will I rot
Until I lose time that I've got
And time will tick-tick-tock
And I will rot
I do not exist I'm just an existential being
I'm a digital bird on digital stream
Don't want to exist in this everlasting dream
If nothings even real what does life even mean

I will break this
Tear out inflate this
Why'd I create this
Living in a false illusion
I will not succumb to the artificial being
Im addicted to the internet, digital fiend
I hate my life whys the world so bleak
I came from the Orphic egg to make the whole world bleed
I am not a human, I am chaos realm seed
I will crack the outer edge and inject my plague

Your fundamental
cn existential
But your lacking sex appeal
Your so pedantic
c little frantic
cdvertising how you feel

You're so arrogant
Inconsiderate
You have no regrets
You're so selfish

You're such a cynic
c fearless critic
From your condo on the beach
You take a sip of sarsaparilla
cnd think that life is pretty sweet

You're so arrogant
Inconsiderate
You have no regrets
You're so selfish

You're disconnected
Never affected
By the problems in your life
You're egocentric
c bit eccentric
You do your best to interact

You're part of the problem we face
You're cutting your nose off despite your face
You're part of the problem we face
You're cutting your nose off despite your face

You're so offending
Its never ending and no one wants to talk to you
You're a deceiver
cn unbeliever of your own philosophy

You're so arrogant
Inconsiderate
You have no regrets
You're so selfish
You're so arrogant
Inconsiderate
You have no regrets
You're so selfish

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty
The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes Will over go over a typical viewer's head
There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization
His personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance
The fans understand this stuff
They have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes
To realize that they're not just funny
They say something deep about life
As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty are truly idiots 
Of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humor in Rick's existential catchphrase
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub
Which itself is a cryptic reference to Tur- Tur?

Hidden out beyond the outskirts of the universe
Deep within a void where humankind will never dream to explore
Grew the tensions of opposing astral titans
Vanity and attention the premise and foundation for war
In a realm of metaphysical philosophy
Physical embodiments of deities at quarrel for fame
Drew bets and wagers on the weight of popularity
Mortals as their currency, the prize a title tied to a name
No
Care
For
The
Out
Come
Of
This world
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch
Imposing influence on gullible mortals
Their stories infiltrated deep within a primitive form
And under teaching an uneducated populous
Legions and allegiances and keepers of religions were born
People spread the word of fabricated knowledge
At root with questionless subservience to power conformed
Their existential authors, deified in fables sat and watched
As their dominions segregated, spread and conquered to form
No
Care
For
The
Out
Come
Of
This world
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch
Silent as they watch
Silent as they watch
Traversing ages, generations and empires
The holy war is still a struggle on this spiraling rock
Disciples, ministries alike are still reliant on
Inherent human ignorance, repudiating alteration
While the minions of these gambling gods
Remain entrusting that their leaders will return to reclaim
A blinded eye is cast apart from the reality
Creators of the sacred hold no stake in this humanity's fate
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch
Appetite for glory
Obedience their thirst
Architects of chaos
Silent as they watch

All up out my element in hindsight
I'll bring lobster into poverty
For a ceremony honoring me
And all my existential pondering
While I forgot about my laundry
Locked in my head, a self-destructive socrates
I swallowed everything I thought were keys
Sickened but addicted to philosophy
So you think I'm confused
But I'm fluent in foolish too
So you think I'm confused
But I'm fluent in foolish too
So you think I'm confused
But I'm fluent in foolish too
So you think I'm confused
But I'm fluent in foolish too
I used to think I wouldn't break if I was bent
At least I wouldn't think I don't exist
My fingers interlaced in an abyss
There's no complacent place as dangerous as this
I used to think I was the shit
I used to think I wasn't shit
I knew that I was meant for something big
Had to get centered for I figured what that something is
I lost my mind and my timeline thought I could define life couldn't even find mine
But in time, I learned to walk a fine line
Truth and a divine lie intertwined

Distort and blur the truth. Divide the populace by race.
With constant existential scares, soiled ground, poisoned air
Fire your cannons, I don't care, Our loss is your disgrace.

Moving like a ticking time bomb
Waiting to depart and leave behind my line art
Dread; existential, but I'm fine, not.
Rot in every pencil pen and polygraph chart.
Oughta laugh before I crash this sail-less tugboat in the docks
Autograph the oddest path before I slit a cutthroat in the yard
Cause any note could be my last on this hill of withered patience
Flagrant suicide with a side of vagrant anxiousness
So I'm steady looking for something to replace it with
Treat the beat sacred, hold it tight with an adjacent grip
And it won't slip, until I sit with the creative infinite
Suspended in this limitless genesis
When spiritual meditation meets visible dedication
Physical penetration gains lyrical education
Illuminate the planet I move with apes up on namek
Vivid in the darkest night, I'm livid as I sharpen mics
Inhibited by martian life exhibiting the spark of light
Perhaps I rap berserk cause I'm slick and lucky, it's magic
Cats that do dirt I'm quick to brush off like a dusty attic
Burn your rhymes to ash flex ability scattering cliques
Turn your mind to glass I will metaphysically shatter it
Enable knowledge deeper to reign through a new philosophy
Disable optic features in your brain with a lobotomy
From the start of basic text I've truly reached my favorite part
My love for art is sacred like the duties of a patriarch
I'll script a lyric Sutra filled with spirit to subdue ya
Fry mantles spin the rhythm, you're shaky in fear of teams
Try angles in a prism, break free from pyramid schemes