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If I may be candid, I admit I really care
I can understand it: All the history is there

I was a kid in Greenville, NC with a subscription to Spin Magazine
I bought Fugazi's first LP cause it seemed like Rage Against the Machine
we didn't really have a scene
we read the stories on the screen
hit refresh on Kazaa streams

The truth, if you demand it, is I witlessly am scared
of goose eggs cracked one-handed, whipped and whisked into thin air

What's good enough for Travis Morrison's probably more than good enough for me
What's good enough for Zaireeka is more than I could ever have hoped to achieve

We won't fall upon our swords
we will crawl back to our Zords
assemble a Titanosaur
a Captain Planet or Triforce

We're gonna show all you dorks what that red button's for
it is a time machine
it runs on lima beans
and when the sky turns green
it is a sight to see
take me somewhere I still care to believe what I read

Matt LeMay, the Trail of Dead
ruled my 15-year-old head
I was grateful for the news
as only virgins can enthuse

Brent DiC., I beg thee hark!
something made mostly of snark
slouches slack-jawed through Grant Park
to wield its hacksaws in the dark

Ryan Schreiber, tell me true –
where are your early reviews,
to be publicly perused?
Are you ashamed of your own youth?

I expect I surpassingly will be ashamed again, oh – in a matter of months, maybe weeks
If we're gonna fall on our asses, then let's at least do it spectacularly
Let's put on our colored glasses in line for a spectacle filmed in 3D
Before they are cast into plastic bins, tossed in receptacles, lost in the streets...
Ladies and gentlemen, kindly remain in your seats.

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from Take Me to Your Leader If You Know What I Mean, released October 17, 2015

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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