Faux Jean is a singing cowboy from Duluth, Minn. Each week he adds a new song to an evolving record series over on Bandcamp and writes about it here. “From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler” is somewhere between a fake newsletter and a faux press release for the eponymous wabi-sabi private label album series that continues to evolve over there. Thanks for checking it out.
To see a transcript of today’s video, click on the above video to be whisked away to a browser window where an okay AI-generated transcript is provided.
Today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” on my Bandcamp page is called “O Listen Loop (2006 etude)” and it can be listened to for free in the player below.
Here are the lyrics: (see video for disclaimers)
Funny thing as a kid they always said listen / and I did and I think I learned what they had to say / Paradise ain’t a place that you go when your dead, Paradise is a place that you go in your head (it’s not between your legs)
And I learned not to hate, and I learned to love / never hurt a fly, never hurt no one / and I learned not to hate and I learned how to love / all right well, I guess I mighta slain a slug once, just the one time
Listen to your mother listen to the man who sired you / listen to the pretty people, listen to the homeless too / listen to your brother mister listen to your sister / listen to yourself above all else and then you’ll never have to suffer fools.
Listen to the Hail Mary listen to the dead Canary / listen to the missionary listen to the doggie too / listen to the martyr masquerading as a self starter / listen to the psychology of the victim as he shoots (as he shoots)
Listen to your limbs and listen to your heart and to your liver / listen to the mountain range and put your ear right through the river / listen to the whisper, man, the breeze it’s in the trees and please /Listen to the universe I think it’s trying to talk to you.
Listen to Centurions and listen to the Heiruspecs / Listen to Rank Strangers, and listen to the X-ray Spex / listen to The Vaselines, and listen to what it all means / listen to Nirvana if you must, your mama’s calling you…
It’s the end of the world in the back of a motor car /cul-de-sac boy and girl have you gone too far? / Cul-de-sac Boy and girl have you learned to listen to the rhythm have you learned to listen to the beat, it makes life sweet
Listen to the force, listen to the apparition / listen to the paranormal listen to the street musician / Listen to the girl who wants to turn it on and listen to your heart no nothing‘s wrong / You just got to learn to listen to the beat.
Listen
Listen to the children listen to the youth and listen to the truth / And Listen to the riff and to the myth and listen to the rhythm / and the television listen to the information / listen to the radio and listen to this guy I know
Listen to the green and listen to the blue / and listen to you / listen to the world that’s beating pulsing coursing through / listen to the world that’s beating coursing beating pulsing through / It’s coursing through it’s culture true
Listen to the children listen to the truth and listen you! / listen to the radio and listen to this guy I know / Listen to the television listen to the information / listen to the radio and listen to the girl next-door
Listen to the youth and listen to the children listen true / Listen to the riff and listen to the myth and listen to the rhythm / and the television listen to the information listen to the radio and listen to the girl next-door
Listen to Centurions and listen to the Rank Strangers / listen to Heiruspecs and listen to the X-ray Spex / Listen to the Vaselines and listen to what it all means / Listen to Nirvana, if you must, your mama’s calling you to eat / and you’re late.
When you wish for manumission careful what you’re wishing for / They might stick you in the kitchen / they might put you on the floor / They might stick you in the dish room there you are wanting more / there you are and then they turn and smile and then they show you the door.
Listen
Listen to the bum listen to the one who rings you / listen to the dream of the rood and their mama too / listen to the book that says that you oughta look / listen to the rhyme listen to the time to the big big beat
Listen to the girl sleeping next to you / listen to the world the fountain too / listen to the fever to the beaver listen to the Whitetail deer yo
Burp o jeez
Listen to the Romans listen to the Senate / Listen to the Echo chamber On the aisle and either side, it’s all the same / Listen to the President, the one we got on precedent / listen to the Malcontent and listen to the right wing goon, the right wing goon, the right wing goon
And of course, here is the video for the lo-fi demo that I made of this song with a more fully realized arrangement when I was a student at Madison Area Technical College (Go Wolfpack!).
I thank you for listening and reading and I remain your humble servant!
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