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Long Live The Great Short Lived

from The One Man Band Broke Up by Ceschi

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Long Live The Short Lived (feat. Sole)
Ceschi :
Nobody quite understood
Andy Kaufman's finest jokes
even years after
all the cancer chewed away.
Carmen Miranda's
heart attack on the Durante show
wasn't noticed until she
faded the next day.

when
all our flesh
disintegrates
we'll perform for the worms,
although the crowds
will be letdowns
at least we'll still perform.


when you rub your eyes too hard and see spots
those are only angels
mixed with souls of the faded famous
still putting on shows
inside of a limbo,
dearly departed,
taken
from a life
early on
these trifling swan songs
don't last long
the remains
only stay
in an eardrum coffin
lost in dense fog
it's funny
but it's dead wrong
to pluck the gray hairs
right out of a corpse's beard
and make a mask out of insignificance
lingering around the stratosphere
so throw your fists up
for the fossilized
apostles
climb all over the graves of giants
to make yourself feel close to
colossal.


long live the great short lived
they all lived well
long live the great short lived
they all lived well


Sole:

i show that wear and tear on my face
and my clothes i wear, they tear
cuz im old like where my tears fell
in a cauldron
the elders stoned to death
in world war 1
on french battlefields
the avant guarde always died first
die depressed, the way its gotta be
down by booze
clowned by shallow fools
bitten by pirhanas in shallow pools
im on a shadow run
sippin my glass
and for them im always tipping my glass
it's half empty
mostly gas
but its still a drink

long live the great short lived
they all lived well
long live the great short lived
they all lived well

Sole:
rest in a lost cause
find no peace in a fresco
nobody loves you like worms do
show you the light like holes do


Ceschi:
so rest in peace with musical pieces
rotting around the guillotine.
all of us remember something significant
but you weren't part of the final equation.

Sole:
and thats dirt
you cant go deep without discovering a body
in cities you cant go deep without discovering a body
you cant go deep
you cant go deep

Ceschi:
the one man band it broke up
before the world got choked up
before anyone noticed, he dissolved into smoke and dust

the one man band it broke up
before the world got choked up
and the few friends he gathered scattered ashes mixed with coke bumps


Sole:
we all know the drive is far
when the tongue weighs a ton
although they dont understand me
i carry a speech for when the grammy's won
torches dont get passed, they go out
the winner dies of dementia
and artists draw no pension
its pecking your eyes while you're trying to read
be the one to murder your faith while you're trying to believe
but dont fret
we all go down but look better in flames
it means nothing if only the tombstones remember our names

only by pissin in the wind will you know the way its going
and only our fallen comrades know the true definition
of revolution

Ceschi:
the one man band it broke up
before the world got choked up
before anyone noticed, he dissolved into smoke and dust

the one man band it broke up
before the world got choked up
and the few friends he gathered scattered ashes mixed with coke bumps

(the bigger the giant = the harder it falls
it's simple physics idiots
the bigger the knife=the bigger the scar)

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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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