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Songs About Teeth

by Ty Trumbull

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1.
I'm Dying First 03:24
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I’m a broken sort of thing Made of vacant hobbies and frayed string But I’ve realized that love’s the easy thing to come by Truth and motivation and knowing how to fight Might just be the things that make it fit right So I think we’ll be alright Yes I think we’ll be alright I hope we’ll be alright… But I’m dying first You can’t make me stay There’d be no point anyway Cause this planet’s such a drag I’m dying first (Whoa-whoa!) I couldn’t take it Without you anyway So I’m dying first I’m a lonely sort-of-boy Covered in chipped paint like a lackluster toy I still haven’t saved enough To pay for my bad teeth To get my head checked Like I know that I should Maybe one day I won’t be uninsured But I think we’ll be alright Yes I think we’ll be alright I hope we’ll be alright… But I’m dying first You can’t make me stay There’d be no point anyway Cause this planet’s such a drag I’m dying first I couldn’t take it Without you anyway So I’m dying first So when I’m gone Take pliers to my teeth Harvest my organs And then send me out to sea Make a necklace To wear around your neck Cause I died first So you lost that fuckin’ bet I’m dying first You can’t make me stay There’d be no point anyway Cause this planet’s such a drag I’m dying first I couldn’t take it Without you anyway So I’m dying first
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Breakbone Fever 03:51
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This breakbone fever’s got me down Staring at this bucket on the ground Laying in my bed In a puddle of my sweat Yes this breakbone fever’s got me down This breakbone fever’s got me down Nothing I can do but sit around Starting at the walls As my skin begins to crawl Yes this breakbone fever’s got me down I know you won’t Let me go back To sweat and scream At that night… Holding back this fever dream of mine This breakbone fever’s got me down Stuck in this nowhere beachside town Everything here sucks Still, it’s where I fell in love But this breakbone fever’s got me down This breakbone fever turned me off It turned me into something that I’m not Dead-eyed stares and pain Still I’d do it all again If this breakbone fever brought me you I know you won’t Let me go back To sweat and scream At that night… Holding back this fever dream of mine Tell me what you’ve got for sale I’ll tell you what I need Like a broken-headed Gardner Sifting through the weeds Scraping at the sweat as it beads hard on my face Ringing out the rags I’ve wrapped around me in embrace Against the cold Against the heat Against the dreams Against the night Shaking, sweating, screaming Like a fiend lost to the bite Of a fever-filled mosquito who got me without a sound So I’ll buy what you’re selling Cause this breakbone fever’s got me down This breakbone fever’s got me down Laid up, beat down, and tossed around But I’m staring after her Grateful for the touch The bedside manner And all the love Cause this breakbone fever Can’t Keep me down
3.
The Car Song 03:10
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This car aint broken, man It’s just broken down Give me five damn minutes I’ll get us out of this damn town Oh it seems We’ve run out of gasoline The tank’s been filled With broken promises and dreams Tell me where you want to go And I’ll tell you how we get there Oh, I just wished that you cared… I just wish that you cared The road we took, man It never bends back home Now we’re stuck out here With broken telephones Just trying to find a landline In this modern day damn world Won’t someone come and pick me up ‘Fore I become unfurled Tell me where you want to go And I’ll tell you how we get there Oh, I just wished that you cared… I just wish that you cared I guess I don’t have enough money to get me there I guess I don’t drive a nice enough ride But y’know I may spend the rest of my life Broken down on the side of the road But at least I was kind At least I’d have been kind This car aint broken, man But let’s just leave it here The breeze is nice Seems a good place to disappear Leave it here On the side of this damn road Free to become rusted, Old, and overgrown Tell me where you want to go And I’ll tell you how we get there Oh, I just wished that you cared… I just wish that you cared
4.
The Wolves Have Won 04:08
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Oh I am a ball Of hot wax and short wires And I am a man Who is unsure how to breathe And I know the wolves have won And the walls have been put up But I will find my way home And my dog He is a dick But I’m so glad he came to me ‘Cause when he finds Some fucking stick He resolves to show me how to be happy And I know the wolves have won And the walls have been put up But I will find my way home So let the houses that we moved out of Forget that we were there The promises we made Leave to wear The plans we drew and hung up too Can all go rot today Cause these wolves They didn’t come to play And I know the wolves have won And the walls have been put up And the funeral’s been called off ‘Cause no one else showed up But I will find my way home
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Northtowns 03:53
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She came from a Northtown Into the city Wondered how she’d end up Ended up with a headset Hocking credit to strangers And walked home alone in the night Ate dinner by the TV light All her life she tried to go it alone Needed no one to tell her What she should know Cause show knows What she knows She came from a hard life And hated the hippies Wondered where they got off News from the TV And nights with a good book She believed in family and home But spent most of her nights alone All her life she tried to go it alone Needed no one to tell her What she should know Cause show knows What she knows She just wanted more Than what her own mother found So she left her heart back there In that Northern town And all her life she thought She should have gone back there And lived out her days Breathing that Northern air Cause these concrete fields They can deceive Cause Northern towns Aren’t the places we leave Northtowns Are the things we keep

about

Like most songs, these were concocted and written during a period of immense transition. I tried to capture the place and time of their creation through the percussion found in the songs. I would walk around the streets of Playa del Carmen, banging, hitting, smashing, and manhandling various objects until I found sounds that I thought were interesting. Those sounds were recorded and plugged into my very old Boss SP-202 Dr. Sampler. And then Ricardo made it sound usable.
Hope you like it.

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released October 22, 2020

All songs written and performed by Ty Trumbull.
Drums on "The Wolves Have Won" by Donovan Bullen.
Most bass on "The Car Song" by Donovan Bullen.

Recorded by Ricardo Galvan at Kondo Studios in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Mastered by Ryan Cox at DARC Productions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Ty Trumbull is a Canadian living in Mexico. He plays banjo and has a Husker Du tattoo.

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