Be Nice To Your Frens

by Martysongs

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1.	Up Above 01:08	lyrics	buy track
Half consumed soda can, waiting on a discarded table Underwater telegram, a caravan into your radar I am craving something sweet from the atmosphere A shard of light a fine feather to find A line Up above, twilight abyss Cavernous new pilot, passing through the rift Up above (repeats) {I feel loooove]
2.	Hungry Now 00:44	lyrics	buy track
Stardust pixels from a 2-d sky Finger painted tic tags on the wall Peeling flower paper Molded ceilings They fall Tumbling Down Hungry Now
3.	Shaken Up 01:30	lyrics	buy track
I'm looking at snow globe With a diorama of an old old film flammer Globes within globes within globes within globes Lookin at Globes within globes within globes within globes (shake it up now) Spheres inside of Fears inside of (I'm shaken up!) Spheres inside of Fears inside of (I'm shaken up!) Spheres inside of Fears inside of (I'm shaken up!) I'm shaking up Globes
4.	Gone By 00:56	lyrics	buy track
boxes of puzzles in a discarded crib a life that was lived gone by wheat pennies a kiss on cold lips a frightened child gone by the ball drops we only had good times we only had good times
5.	The New News 00:52	lyrics	buy track
I am not the news You are not the news The news is not the news And that is good, It's good news This just in: Discovery of a secret crow language (Story at 3:13) People are singing about their soap (and marrying it now now) Concepts of language are getting together at the bar (It's good) The forecast is for pizza Pizza with cheese If you please now The new news The new news Is on
6.	The Name of That Cat 01:33	lyrics	buy track
Hey look what's that way out the back, is it that cat? Take a look on out the back, do you see that? What's the name of that cat? The old black cat caught its foot in a trap, the old black cat caught his foot The old black cat caught its foot in a trap, the old black cat caught it good Now he's just got three feet, on the tar And he can't get far So we gave him a name We call him 'Yard.' There's 3 feet in a yard. Get it? The old black cat caught its foot in a trap, the old black cat caught his foot The old black cat caught its foot in a trap, the old black cat caught it good
7.	Wish Well 01:36	lyrics	buy track
The day The seashell Burst forth From inside The tiger Saw the universe In that shell That shell Stars inside Roar Waiting Watching Wishing well We roar Waiting Watching Wishing well We roar
8.	Flying Lion 01:30	lyrics	buy track
don't talk politics at the bar don't talk to a tree and call it a very big car that tree, by the way, she's named blanche get outta the way gonna hit you with her very big branch flying lion: wow! (you're beautiful tree) flying lion, How? (the things you do see!) X2 (huh) don't talk about the lion at the bar don't tell the tree even if you think it's a car just call her blanche (look out for that branch)
9.	Shifty Innkeeper 01:41	lyrics	buy track
Shifty Innkeeper What are you hiding? The keeper's code All that we hold... Flitting whimsy gangrenous protrusion mandible crucible (unintelligible innkeeper weird words) ......Shifty Innkeeper What are you hiding? Beneath the floor boards... Eyes are guiding... Shifty Innkeeper
10.	Try Hard 01:30	lyrics	buy track
Live life Eat food Try Hard To do good It is not so hard Why is it so hard? To Live life Eat food Try Hard To do some good You should! Live life Eat some food Try Hard To do some good You should! livelifetryhard food foooood

about

'Be Nice To Your Frens' was created as a part of the RPM Challenge 2020. RPM tasks you with making up 10 songs in the month of February. As such, every aspect of every song was written and recorded in the month of February, 2020. The process was equally challenging and delightful.

'Be Nice To Your Frens' is my first exclusively acoustic album. All of the instruments are played by me, and recorded very simply using the on-board microphone on my laptop and occasionally very basic distortion and/or chorus pedals. I recorded these songs using the instruments that were on-hand and embraced the sounds that I was making in the moment. As such, it is likely that this album is best listened to through your computer speaker, or maybe one single broken earphone. But you do you.

Most of the music I was working on leading up to these songs were and are very literal and story-based, which is no bad thing. But I think that this batch of songs reflects a kind of opposite reaction to that story-based space. I believe these songs are, largely, poetic, or in the few cases where they are more literal (like 'The Name of That Cat'), they reflect a specific moment from this month, which is somehow its own poetry.

And if you're still reading this little blurb about my songs, I owe you a soda. What's your favorite? Mine is a tie between Cherry Coke and Dr. Pepper, but I love root beer, too. Heck, I even have a soft spot for Mountain Dew.

This album was a joy to make, and I hope you like it.

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released February 29, 2020

album art by an unknown but very talented small child, as discovered on a church basement wall

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Martysongs Brooklyn, New York

Marty Allen is best known for performing with inter-disciplinary creative storm, Uncle Monsterface, creating "The Sock Puppet Portraits", and writing some books. Sometimes he makes songs on his own, too.

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