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2% Juice

from The Gramp Stamp by Grampfather

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lyrics

2% Juice


You’re a bad liar—
I can see what you feel
through your eyeballs—
don’t ya know
they’re the windows to the soul?
so they say say say. . .
Don’t ya know what’s disclosed
by the twitching of your lips
or the crinkling of your nose
even though it might seem like
nothing at all?
Nothing at all.

You think you’re sly
but you and I
both know what the deal is—
don’t assume that only you
know what it is you’re feeling—
it’s all about the room,
I feel it too—
seems like everyone’s aware
that everyone’s aware
besides you.

You can save it—
your tinted language,
keep it simple:
if what you’re saying
is meaningful then say it
in a way that’s accessible
to the common being
so they don’t need a degree
to see what you’re saying—
you better believe
that such elite phrasing
is not conversation
but just pretentious masturbation.

All’s been done
under the sun.
How can we break free
from the monotony?

How do we express
amidst all the excess?
What do we mean?
How do we proceed?
You’ve got to take the combinations
that make the amalgamation
that makes you who you are
and what you do is what you are
and what you produce is your art
but it’s all determined
by your intention from the start.

So what do you want?
Do you want to discuss or just flaunt?
Put those flashy tricks on the shelf—
you’re like everyone else who
felt the urge to

be original, driven by some self-endowed principle—
well, maybe you’ve got something after all
but I wouldn’t feel comfortable
calling what I pass along
mine, for I must’ve gotten it from someone
who got it from someone
and so on into
time immemorial—
I’m calling for a funeral

of the ego—it’s like a cyst on the mind;
instead, I see my contemporaries
as catalysts for new designs.
No, nothing exists in a vacuum
so I’m content with the potential truth
that, of all the imported ingredients,
I possess at least 2% juice—

and all the rest are not my competitors
but my friends who I’m indebted to.
You’ve got enough on your own plate—
I don’t mean to help you self-deprecate;
I just want to help to eradicate
fruitless templates that only complicate
the primal instinct that first inspired you to create—
that simple desire just to have minds relate.
And hopefully we'll leave this place
a little brighter than when we came--
the sentiment's nothing new,
but it's all about attitude.
I don't care for the What as much as the How.
It's too easy to just turn things down
and harshly criticize
but it's hard to realize

that what I see
as beautiful might seem
awful in your eyes
and that your sunset's
my sunrise.

Hey, why's it so hard to say
anything that's cliché.
No, don't leave a trace
or else your image
will be defaced.

No, your muse is not yours
but something you picked up
from the lot, of course.
I wouldn't blame you
if you wanted to debate it
but I find it kind of liberating to
remove the source from the self--
and if it's true
that it comes from somewhere else--
than who's
to say it's fake if you feel it?
So let it pass through
so I can steal it.

credits

from The Gramp Stamp, released March 25, 2019
Vox, guitar, bass: James Kwapisz
Drums: Brandon Bera

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Grampfather Kingston, New York

Grampfather is an indie-psych rock band based out of Kingston, NY, whose material traverses a variety of rock genres, such as indie, garage, punk, psych, chill, and thrash.

James Kwapisz: vocals, guitar, synth
Tony DiMauro: drums
Andrew Blot: guitar, keys
Jake Offermann: bass

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