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Alternatives To Extinction

by Strangely Shaped By Fathers

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I guess I was having a bad day when I wrote this song but sometimes you have to honour a bad day and go with it. One of those days when the sheer fucking stupidity of everyone I was seeing got me down as I saw little hope for humanity at all. We're killing ourselves and seem doomed to do so, avoiding all alternatives to extinction we are offered.
I still tried to keep the song upbeat despite the grim lyrics though.
I am really unsure about the recording of this one too. I did it with one ear totally messed up with wax and unable to properly judge levels or sounds at all. Again - I decided to honour that too and just put it out there, warts and all. Enjoy!

lyrics

My eyes feel like they’re bleeding
Sucked dry by hungry screens
Lost with my attention
I’ve no more fucks to give

The sheer fucking stupidity
Of basically
everyone
Makes it very very hard for me
To want to see
Alternatives to extinction

I have to remember
It’s not always their fault
Advertising works
And it shits in your head each day
Every day

Don’t believe me? Well I wrote this song
On an expensive phone
That I didn’t need
After playing mindless video games
On a new console
That I could not afford

More shoes than I have feet
More wants than I have needs

When the headlines sell you
Distorted narratives
And even your best friends share you
Propaganda clips

Then what chance have you got to know a thing?
Beyond echoing
The way that choirs sing
The conductor’s baton’s tightening
It’s so frightening
How much we are losing

The sheer fucking stupidity
Of basically
everyone
Makes it very very hard for me
To want to see
Alternatives to extinction
ALTERNATIVES TO EXTINCTION

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released April 12, 2021
All words and music by DaN McKee

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Strangely Shaped By Fathers Birmingham, UK

Strangely Shaped By Fathers is Academy Morticians/Bullet of Diplomacy bassist & anarchist atheist punk rock teacher, DaN McKee, working solo with Logic Pro, GarageBand and a rudimentary understanding of how to play guitar and programme some drums alongside his bass playing. It's a one person punk "band" that mixes the personal and political. Enjoy! ... more

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