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Currently Unknown Future Classics

by Isaac Paris

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    Thank you for taking the time to download my album. This is the fourth I have made. I think it is my best. I am so grateful to the talented musicians who performed on this album for free, that helped me keep the budget small. I am thankful for James Bartlett for putting up with my perfectionism. My son's friendship and honesty have helped me get through tough times. Thanks to everyone who has given me a gig, or let me stay with them while traveling. I am thankful to the musicians and comedians who have inspired me, all my teachers and friends. Thanks especially to my family for encouraging me. My brother and sister are my favorite people. This album should make you smile if your heart beats in your chest. Enjoy it.
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rolling down the stream in the autumn breeze my bes' girl pours me a glass of red wine seems things are getting better all the time never could i go back back to where i once was. i think I'll give away some money just because i think I'll give away some money just because i go to sleep, i'm in love, i wake up still in love i make a sandwich in love, i pay my taxes in love everything has this magical glow because she loves me this I know. why is the queen of england burying my feet in the sand? what was the series of serendipitous events that resulted in the earth goddess holding my hand, listening to my band? rolling down the road like Mr. Toad thought i had sorrow but it was a mistake tied up my problems; threw them in the lake i sniff a flower in love i take a shower in love i feed the fishes in love i do the dishes in love everything has a magic shine because I know that she is mine seems things are getting better all the time Why is a lingere model curled up in my bed? Why is a beautiful hollywood actress sending Me texts late at night about..? boy, is my face red. Am i broken? whats wrong with my heart? why bother to put it together? it'll just fall apart I thought I'd never write a song so droll seemed everyone was a horny goat and i was a vindictive little troll i go to sleep, i'm in love- i wake up still in love i make a sandwich in love, i pay my taxes in love everything has this magical shine seems things are getting better all the time
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you don't need money to have fun, you don't need money to have fun you're re set for life if you can learn this lesson when your young you don't need money to have fun there is overcrowding at the fancy private beaches and the swimming pools have chemicals and bleaches but the gravel pit is free and you get to swim with leeches you don't need money to have fun renting skis and a lift ticket will cost you 70 bucks but you can slide down the mountain on a cardboard box and think of all the fun you'll have, trying to avoid the rocks you don't need money, to have fun. every book you could ever wish for to read repair manuals and comics and great movies are all available free at your public library you don't need money to have fun if a famous band is coming but your feeling glum the prices are outrageous and its over 21 just make music with friends you can invite everyone you don't need money to have fun or if a comedian is coming to a local place but you cant afford it you've fallen from grace volunteering with children should put a smile on your face you don't need money to have fun hollywood films all have predictable ends but you can make crazy new movies with your friends and trying to improve your skills the challenge never ends you don't need money to have fun you cant afford a drum machine to make fat beats circuit bend a garage sale toy and create weird bloops and bleeps if you make your own instruments your sound will be unique you don't need money to have fun alcohol and drugs can suck your funds away addiction to cigarettes ensures you'll pay and pay and pay exploring caves and abandoned buildings gets you higher anyway you don't need money to have fun some struggle without realizing they could do without the frills by living frugally you can reduce the number of your bills so you can fill your life with the things you find fulfilling don't envy those who breeze through without spending a shilling you too could be making nothing but still be making a killing you don't need money to have fun corporations think of you as a consumer to buy crap threre's another economy that cant be represented by their graphs its quantified in kisses, hugs and smiles and laughs. you don't need money to have fun
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Bosso Rosa 03:22
Basssoooo… Rosssaaaa He's crooked as a rusty nail he's as skinny as a lightning bolt he's a bad, bad man. he's got his fingers in every pie he pays a lot of money to a lot of mean guys the cops are on his side and the gangsters too pray he doesn't come after you! he's a bad bad man... Basssoooo… Rosssaaaa People come from miles around to bet on the roosters: to bet on the hounds he sells girls who take it in the back and bootleg liquor that he makes in the bath People drink it until they drop and he skims a little offa de top! hes a bad bad man... senior Rosa's club is no more flames lick the ceiling, engulf the floor Frederico got his revenge a militia of 30 men killed bosso rosa!
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pa and I arrived from the old country we built a house and set up shop ma and kate came in 71 we bought animals and planted crops. but the crops didn't grow too well and the animals were sickly too but travelers pass on the osage trail so kate thought up something for all of us to do Sister kate welcomes them in Pa beats them over the head. Ma sells their things in Cherry Vale its my job to bury the dead can you shimmy like my sister kate? she's a mystic and a schemer, a wheeler and a dealer she's always been the clever one spread flyers around saying she was a healer they say a man must work hard to earn his daily bread and keep but the ground is so cold and hard in kansas that I don't bury them very deep 9 bodies were buried in the orchard body parts scattered around Johnny Boyle was down in the well (and there were several others that they never found) Kate: "I use my guiles, to welcome them in" Pa: "I beat them over the head." Ma: "I sell their things in the next town over" its my job to bury the dead can you shimmy like my sister kate? she's a mystic and a healer, seances on the side no one shimmies like my sister kate shell cut your throat, or bury you alive! they call us Bloody benders a gradeschool children's taunt Bloody Benders Bloody benders Labette county we haunt they call us the bloody benders we found another way to get by we cut throats… of traveling folks and send them to their home in the sky! they call us the Bloody benders a gradeschool children's taunt Bloody Benders, Bloody benders Labette county we haunt they call us the Bloody benders we found another way to get by, Bloody Benders Bloody benders People who stay at our inn tend to die...
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Snow Falling 02:42
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i cheated on a game where i made up the rules in my mind and i caught myself i transformed the bliss of a reciprocated kiss into a tedious remedial hell Friends tell me that i deserve better but what does "deserve" mean? if there is no scoring system there is no rule book, and there sure as hell isn't a ref you don't look very happy with him theres no smile under that hood it may not excite you to run to another i doubt anything could. i asked do you know a tin man and a scarecrow cuz i feel like a cowardly lion and you asked if i knew a forge and a whetstone cuz you had an ax to grind. they say that writing bad poetry can ease the pain of loss but anyone who tells me that It'll get better sounds like a doctor pangloss i cheated on a game where i made up the rules in my mind and i caught myself I was the outlier lying out back and she was a median bell.
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he scuffs his shoe spills some goo from a breakfast pastry his collars torn, his jackets warn, he's wan and pasty coins in the fountain, its a palace of greed A F# Bmin E he leaves his money its the honors system open door policy empty train station causation fallacy Amin Amin/ G people starve to death but they're way over there. they aren't our friends so we don't even care. species go extinct, every single week but they aren't our pets so we don't intervene unforseen occurrence act of god clause marriage insurance rabid octopus, defenestration casual observation how pedestrian a domestic disturbance. phasers and photon topedoes guacamole and tostitoes lets not mince words raisin oatmeal antelope herds pandamonium panda bear plays a mean harmonium they fleece ordinary people every day but they aren't our problem so we look the other day someone said the meek will inherit the earth but when we're done they won't be left with their shirts
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Damn you Damn you damn you romance number 1 we spent lazy days cavorting in the sun you were so easy going you let me boss you around how was I to know my lifestyle was dragging you into the ground? When you left you said I was a selfish bore and was no fun damn you damn you damn you romance number 1 damn you damn you damn you romance number 2 I was a fool to think any other would act the way you do when i was with you, my heart just grew and grew i gave all i had and that was a lot but then you left abruptly and the world went to pot everything after your hair smells like poo you took the sunshine with you when you left you said "You'll never love another, the only one you love is you" damn you damn you damn you romance number 1 Damn you Damn you Damn you romance number 3 When i met you i was broke and your parents hated me our chemistry was incredible, I followed where you led you'd tie me up for days and never let me leave your bed your walk was like poetry your ass was like ice cream I spent all my time with you when I had other places I was supposed to be and when you left you said "you'll never find another half as fun as me." damn you damn you damn you romance number 3 (harmonica solo) damn you damn you damn you romance number 4 maybe in a cafe or on a foreign shore You are some future woman who has yet to light my flame i haven't met you yet, but no doubt I'll have cause to complain you'll leave me like the others did, sobbing on the floor I'll never learn my lesson, i'll never even the score If I had all the tea in china I would want a little more damn you damn you damn you  damn you damn you damn you  damn you damn you damn you romance number 4
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a husky pug daushund terrier slick met a pomeranian poodle german shepherd bitch brought her a stick, gave her a friendly lick. "my families rich i see you're not yet fixed. I can tell you're the friendly type your hair is a mess and you smell rather ripe I always fall for boys who are wrong for me and you look like the wrongest that I've ever seen." let me take you to a place I know its a hole in the wall that i like to go the dumpster behind the arbys in wasilla I'll introduce you to the thriller, He's a killer! It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams a random thought, if said aloud may soon attract- a hostile crowd. i met her last year at a renaissance fair she had an A on her dress but I didn't care she had high cheekbones and auburn hair with a dash of middle east european flair We drank mead till i was red in the face she said I got stronger stuff back at my place sure girl you can take me home I'd love to jump your bones like they did in old Rome let's reenact the game of thrones and I don't mean the beheading scene i'll be the dwarf, you can be the evil queen. Its well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams a random thought if said aloud may soon attract- a hostile crowd. I've a fascination with a depraved boy like an oral fixation with a rave toy i like the way they smell, the way they talk The way my mom's jaw opens in shock. I like em with tattoos all over their back like a treasure map, like the cumberland gap I'd shack up with you in the wood shack out back what's that double take you took, just because i adore you doesn't mean you're off the hook. I hold you in high regard as I abuse you, you loser, you lazy tub of lard. Bring me some money, bring me some wine and not the cheap stuff like last time!" as you sleep your way up the corporate ladder your lovers get bigger- and they get fatter it's a reverse russian doll you've come a long way girl- from the fifth avenue mall. its possible to pick up crumbs, by pressing on them with your thumbs wigs and role play in strange dress to lessen the tedium of marital congress Its well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams a random thought if said aloud may soon attract- a hostile crowd.
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when your exhausted and discouraged and your journeys at its end and the ocean waves and the creatures that live within them have swallowed up your last friend if your melancholy and blue, and you spent your last penny at the last port of call remember theres a table reserved for you a at the formal iceberg ball they eat iceberg lettuce and they drink a frothy brew and they wont dig in just yet because they are waiting for you glaciers weep as they send their little ones to the dance check to see that ties are straight and theres no wrinkles in their pants sailers who aren't welcome in heaven or below can always find a partner at the ice berg social flow ice bergs love to shank ships but you'll find they also love to drink and shake their hips. theres never a cover charge and the hostess is nice say hi to my friends there they will be floating by in blocks of ice at the iceberg social club you might find eternal love i may join you someday but it will not be today at the iceberg formal soiree

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released April 13, 2013

Drums: Travis Burrows (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11)
Vocals: Tai Trujillo (1, 2, 5, 10)
Fiddle: Susie Hallinan, (,5) Heidi Brook (7)
Trumpet: Luke Soren Nielsen (10,11)
Cello: Sabe Flores (4, 5, 11)
Electric Guitar: Craig Brookes (3)
Electric Bass: Luke Ponchione (1,3,8,10, 11)
Stand Up Bass: Chazz Gist (2,5,9,11)
Backing Vocals, Foley: Luke Soren Nielsen, Tai Trujillo, Sarah Furman, Nick Meurlott, Eli Barry Garland, Amelia Cooper, Kalee Mockridge, Daniel Firmin (5, 11)
Banjo, Keyboards, Harmonica, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Synthesizers, Vocals, Direction by Isaac Paris.
Engineered and Mixed By James Bartlett and Isaac Paris at Sunnyside Studios, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering, Motreal, Quebec.

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