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Fallen Famous

from The One Man Band Broke Up by Ceschi

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Fallen Famous

one round of applause for the dollar bill doldrums
two for the bankrupt distributors
three for the folding indies
four for the fallen famous
five for the lack of support
six for the millions of kids who missed the mid nineties
seven for the rappers telling me rap is dead
selling out
in their petticoats
with their petty drama
bourgeois fear
from the rebels who once screamed in our ears
about money and guns,
about politics,
wonder where they'll go?
will they ever try to
dig themselves
right out of the comfort of their own homes
when a life implodes
fragments flow
deep into the black,
into the forgotten,
swallowed whole
in a landslide of kudos that turned to - who knows?

what a shame
to be taken
right into the grave
by the devil and his henchmen
the same ones that took his pension
and left him in a grave defenseless

not to mention
no attention
to the messes

just a box-set
sitting next to a Smith and Wesson
fingerprints still lingering on trigger metal
heavy metal on a record spinning

"It's the end of your era I tell you!"
a publicist screams
on a warped tape answering machine
from the 80s
silver lining never came
the defining moments fade
with radio play

put away
any stray
bullet in your brain
get it ready for that long play.

every day something beautiful dies
and nobody cries for the swatted flies
because they lingered around insignificant
living just distant of people's eyes

disgusting
vultures.
circling around the bodies of my fallen heroes
making jigsaw puzzles out of bones
while lilacs limp from the stench as flesh erodes

no need to worry about packing bags julius
maggots don't care if you're dressed
your mother's gone
and the suit don't fit
a 9 millimeter's gonna be your last kiss
and no one's gonna be there when you take a final breath
and even though you want to be remembered as an übermensch

it's less
it's less than ashes in the sea
it's less than a fresh coat of makeup on your gray face at a wake with a catholic priest
it's less than heaven
less than irrelevant
less than the most negative segment
that you could even conjure up in your vast imagination
it's tasteless
it's dirt
it's rotting organs
it's worms
and the perfect sounds are drowned out by the ground now
by the cries of the few and far between
by the record labels that are capitalizing on dreams
and they'll repackage you as deluxe
and they'll romanticize your death grunts
but the dust on the dollar bin gatefold sleeve just
screams that nobody gave a fuck.

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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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