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Bad Jokes

from The One Man Band Broke Up by Ceschi

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Bad Jokes

he apologized
to the folks in the back row who got splattered in blood at the last show
he apologized
for the spit and sweat that dripped off the skin on his chest
but nonetheless
he should have apologized for things that he never did
when he should have
and things he did when he shouldn't have
all those sins
that gathered up to form a 50 foot dragon
sleeping in a labrynth inside of his brain cavity, stagnant

GG Allin
threatened to blow out his brains on stage
but instead when death day came it was quiet and tame

Then there's the one about the girl in Berlin who jumped out a window
and had people convinced her suicide was performance

bad jokes about bad people in bad bars
make the bad worse and make the good crash cars

bad jokes about bad people in bad bars
make the bad worse and make the good crash cars

so have you heard the one about the one man band ?
the one man band?
yes, the one man band

so have you heard the one about the one man band ?
I heard he sang like an angel before he hanged

so have you heard the one about the one man band ?
the one man band?
yes, the one man band

so have you heard the one about the one man band ?
I heard it

but it's too soon to laugh about his follies in the past
about the way that he got fat and couldn't keep it in his pants....
and I remember lies about 5 figure record deals,
headlining bills, and lines when he tried to convince me everything was real...
but-it-was a crying shame
seeing him lie in pain
after realizing the way
he wasted time on a game
that dangled a prize
in front of his tired eyes
like arcade toy cranes
with no claws to play

bad jokes about bad people in bad bars
make the bad worse and make the good crash cars

bad jokes about bad people in bad bars
make the bad worse and make the good crash cars

and he used to sing,

"God damn another one of God's bad jokes
when he stabs and pokes at our last hopes.
We were young once
and wrote songs about not giving a fuck - acting like we had some guts."

laughing on a barstool dumb drunk
as one hand fiddled with some nuts
while the other held a mug
and every crease on his face was a fault line
that looked like it had been drawn there at the beginning of time...
but he was only 45 when he died
with no family left behind
just instruments and a mic
and the story goes that he cried like a baby
as he tied the noose waiting for someone to come and save him.

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from The One Man Band Broke Up, released June 27, 2010

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Ceschi New Haven, Connecticut

Ceschi (pronounced chess-key) Ramos makes his own version of progressive hip hop spliced with elements of folk & indie rock. Although he has almost "mathy" technical rap abilities he's first and foremost a singer-songwriter at heart. Although one Ceschi song may consist of punk influenced machine gun fast raps, the next may be a quiet folk ballad played on acoustic guitar. ... more

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