Bohemian Green {lyrics}

Tab & Anitek - Bohemian Green by Anitek

This song is more like a stream of consciousness than actually being about something.  It does have some social/political commentary to it, but I'm also talking shit at the same time.  The title was inspired by Bohemian Grove which is an exclusive campground in California where some of the most powerful leaders carry out strange rituals.  I changed it to Bohemian Green because even though I'm commenting on some political issues , the song has a very "stoned" train of thought to it.  The audio clips in the beginning and end of the song are from a GG Allin interview on the Jane Whitney Show.

"I'm bringing us to a revolution

against the government

against the police

against any form of society that is trying to put us down and restrict us in any way, shape or manner

you can not conform

you must be a true non-conformist"

it's the never ending trend of the lover and friend

..it's all politics..

crooked as the government when..you get in line..

picket sign

spit in the wind

make pretend...its not the same thing over again

it's all relative

got me thinkin' of sneakin' your relatives

lifted intelligence

developin' a bad seed

alot of liquor

a crate of records and mad weed

the bad read

chop it up with mad speed

Keanu Reeves on the piano keys

the cross breed, new disease

I need room to breathe

I told them.."please"

As I travel down the rabbit hole

beyond average

I grab it and spray it at em' like aerosol

watch as we embarrass yall'

turn the cameras off

it be the poet in the dark

boxing with shadow puppets

but fuck it ..i'm never leavin'

you quit and we'll call it even

you will lose while i am breathing

you can even be the hero for the evening

last word from the first one speaking..

its something like a getaway

you can lose your mind

you better get it before it get ya'

let me waste your time

I'm headed that-a-way

you can press rewind

and if you lookin' for me

i'll be smokin' on the finest green

False flag operation

shoe string suicide watch

 ..in the basement..

there is no replacement

no temporary position

the missionary submission

will make her listen

there's other fish in the sea

there's other shit in the pond

the first born

put the superhero on

..I..

weather the storm

surrender to norm

it's never been drawn

it's never been seen

wrong side of somewhere in between

I hate to intervene on this little scene

the little scheme that's been crippling your dreams

I'm Ritalin..you fiends

so hire the machine

put the I up in the team

Bohemian Green

"Ever since I was a child,

What you see is what you get

When I wake up tommorow morning I'll still smell the same way

I'll still look the same way

This is not a show

This is not an act

I am that guy"

Ballad of the Man That Never Made It {Lyrics}

This title like "House of the Rising Son" was inspired by the music of the 60's.  Bob Dylan has done a number of songs titled similar to this "Ballad of a Thin Man" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and others..

This song  pretty much explains itself.  It is a story of a failed artist that settles for mediocrity and tries to fit in  with regular life.  The ending was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's suicide where he typed only one word on his typewriter before pulling the trigger.

Believe it or not the first voice you hear is the voice of Joey Gladstone of Full House.  I was half asleep one day and heard that part and went on a mission to find it for this song.

Ballad of the Man That Never Made It

"you see last night was a revelation..

that big break is not coming..

I am going to venture into the business world

I'm going to get a real job and make some real money

I'm starting a whole new way of life..

There comes a point in your life where you just have to say to yourself

" I tried and I failed"

I'm just glad I found this out now and not when I'm 46 years old"

Woke up..his alarm ringing

and he was hoping it wasn't raining 

'cause he can't remember last night

get to smoking with a cigarette and glass pipe

and maybe in a past life he was something special

just an empty vessel carrying a heavy load

its such a crooked road

its such a different path

they lookin' at him and get to thinking that he will never last

point at him and laugh

another puppet for the cash

if you're doing somethin' different you're finishing dead last

this is why the talented balance and than crash

'cause everyone will dig in his pocket..like..real fast

and it'll catch up with ya

as soon as she's in love with u

he settles for the replica

but still she'll be second to what really matters

mad hatter with this chitter chatter

i'd chose the latter

but fuck it..it doesn't matter

..and this is over breakfast..

i guess that it's gotten worse

because he's stressing impression and only got a couple shirts

..he checks his phone..

ignoring who keeps texting him

a bunch of missed calls and alot of mean messages

alot of questions of where he's been and what he's been doing

alot of friendships he's ended..and now they're fucking ruined

he had a dream he was chasing but now he's not pursuing

had it figured out

but now he don't know what the fuck he's doing

this is the story of the man that never made it

that did something amazing but they hid it in the basement

this is the story of the man that never made it

who's still sittin' and waiting 'cause he doesn't want to face it

On his way to 9-5

this is such a shitty drive

his co-workers don't even notice that he's alive

they don't know he was rockin' stages

he's pushin papers

they talkin' families..his conversations vacant

and he can't take it..

it's like theres nothing in common

he's all alone in the morning

and god damnit its boring

..and than he drives home..

and gets lost in the music

remembers when he used to do it

was too timid and blew it..

..and its still raining...

he run inside to grab a beer

even his dog barkin' like he doesn't even live here

..another Guiness..

the microwavable dinners are finished

he puffs a blunt for a minute

and than goes downstairs

..talking to his girl..

fightin' for five years

..she hang up on him..

but in a minute she'll call back

..he'll get to screamin'..

but in a minute he'll fall back

he hits the bar with the same faces...alittle older

the same town that he's been in since he was in a stroller

..sip till he's falling over..

..mumbles to a stranger..

something about startin' over and getting signed to a major

its just a dream now

its just a conversation

all the years that he worked at it..he fucking wasted

..back home now..

and he's fuckin' wasted

his money lower than his self esteem

such a selfish dream

front page of the magazine

..he pushed it all aside..

he feel it..deep inside

opened up his rhyme book and wrote one word

....goodbye...

this is the story of the man that never made it

that did something amazing but they hid it in the basement

this is the story of the man that never made it

who's still sittin' and waiting 'cause he doesn't want to face it

Manipulated Living {Lyrics}

The term Manipulated Living is pulled from the movie Donnie Darko as well as all the dialogue before and after the verse. Here is how the Manipulated Living is described in the book "Philosophy of Time Travel" 

THE MANIPULATED LIVING The Manipulated Living are often the close friends and neighbours of the Living Receiver. They are prone to irrational, bazaar, and often violent behaviour. This is the unfortunate result of their task, which is to assist the Living Receiver in returning the Artifact to the Primary Universe. The Manipulated Living will do anything to save themselves from Oblivion.

Also after the verse the character's are discussing the book "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

The Manipulated Living

" a storm is coming Frank says..

a storm that will swallow..the children

and i will deliever them from the kingdom of pain

I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps

I'll send the monsters back to the underground

I'll send them back to a place where noone else can see them

except for me..

because I am Donnie Darko"

They told me never stop..

never waste your talent..

jump to the main course..

i'm still on the salad..

i'm still on the ballot..

I ain't lose it..i found it

stay around like im grounded

clock circles around it..

change my surroundings

pressures a mountain

got me renouncing my faith through a fountain 

pen click

its just relentless

i guess its hopeless

i can't believe i wrote this

how did they not notice?

how did they lose focus?

money, overdoses

and you can quote this

i'm not the dopest

but i'm like the closest

lost some of the closest

fed em' to the vultures

memoirs for the soldiers

why you pretending we ain't headed towards the ending?

send them in.. in 3's

new disease got them fenced in

you were different back than

now you kind of blend in..

i pledge allegiance to this dream..

for which it stands..

for her i fall..

resolutions

never solved

i'm growing distant

i'm not involved

..call me lost..

call me broken

i'm a dreamer and I've been hoping..

...that you can send me back to oblivion....

"because the rabbits are us Donnie" 

"why should i mourn for a rabbit like it was human?

a rabbit is not like us..

it has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret

I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit!

who never even feared death to begin with"

"you're wrong

these rabbits can talk they are the product of the authors imagination

and he cares for them so we care for them

..otherwise..

we just missed the point.."

"aren't we forgetting about the miracle of story telling?

deus ex machina

"the god machine"

that's what saved the rabbits"

Down the Rabbit Hole {Lyrics}

This song is the opener to Chasing Rabbits and is the start of the bad trip which is the album.  I don't want to talk to much about the meaning of this song because I like to leave everything up to the listener.  It is the story of a couple that have done way more than they can handle.  The first verse is the narrator's experience and the second verse is about his girl.  

Down the Rabbit Hole

..mind racing..

liquor chasing Alice into Wonderland..

steady hand, losing him to something he don't understand..

paranoia's got him thinking..everybody's following him..

pop a couple pills..take a shot of liquor..

swallow them..

dripping sweat, nervous wreck

wash it down with percocet

body rotten,oxycodine

night forgot and never found

hallucinagenic, xanax

got him a state of panic

he needs a medic

sweatin' like he's doing callisthenics

seconds feel like minutes..

minutes feel like hours..

cold shower doesn't help..

they laced it with something else..

seeing shit he's never dreamed of..

and than he opened up his mouth and he wondered where his scream was..

he knows what's happening, his veins getting colder

turned around and seen death tapping on his shoulder

body hits the ground without a sound

now its over

the death of a dream...

somebody should have told ya'

you get what you pay for

i hear death knockin' on my front door

i'm not sure what you came for

but i can't take much more {2x}

follow me down

follow me down

follow me down

down to the rabbit hole

knockin' on heaven's door

love you forever more

itchin' for a bigger dream

grab the antihistamine

chase it to erase it

consequence is what you facing

yet i'm feeling so immaculate

its Montague & Capulet

and lovely little Juliet's collapsing in the back of it

I'd have another capsule, yet its hard to keep track of it

keep talking to me baby we gon' make it thru this

but who am i to listen to?

look at what i did to you

don't wana be sedated

yet i'm easily persuaded by the jaded lifestyles of the wana be famous

and as she's gettin' cold in this story never told

I see what I've become 

I could never fit the mold

I just, followed the leader like an underachiever

now i can never leave her

baby crawl up under the speaker

hit repeat and loop it

i know we're young and we're stupid

i'll show and i'll prove it

to wake up from this moment with you..

you get what you pay for

i hear death knockin' on my front door

i'm not sure what you came for

but i can't take much more {2x}

follow me down

follow me down

follow me down

down to the rabbit hole