Like anyone who's every complained about life in the last 20 years, I've certainly been accused of being clinically depressed. I never have taken prozac or anything like that. Everyone I've ever been in a relationship with has, however.
(Hmm. Best not to ponder the implications of THAT.)
So, again, as songwriter, I climb into the bodies of them that do take meds, just long enough to write "My Happy Pills." Specifically I'm interested in that awful WTF period where you're crabby and sad and still taking pills. I mean, at what point is a bad day a bad day, and when is it time to upgrade your prescription?
It's a lovely slow song, I'd say. The drone bass parts are very lovely, interwoven with the high guitar parts very well.
I see there's a bridge in the original lyrics that didn't make it to the final version, somehow. (I likely deemed it "A bridge too far...")
...Who cares who came first/the chicken or the egg/depression or a life’s misery?/ Go back to the sun tan/ you’ve improved upon /before my rain clouds robbed you of ray.../
Not very good, that burned bridge. Does kind of get at what I was interested in: is life miserable, or is it just us?
lyrics
"My Happy Pills"
(vonHummer)
Got enough civility left to warn the world just one time: keep your yap shut, got no interest in the stupid little things that you say,
For some reason, for some reason my happy pills aren’t working today… For some reason, for some reason my happy pills aren’t working today…
All of my ability to laugh this life away has gone bye-bye, not that I care, but take a running jump into Lake Elsewhere, okay?
For some reason, for some reason my happy pills aren’t working today… For some reason, for some reason my happy pills aren’t working today…
Guess this prescription needs an upgrade, then I’ll grand marshal the Perky Parade, somewhere over the rainbow that’s monochrome gray, but my happy pills aren’t working today…
credits
from Abbey Damned,
released August 1, 2003
vonHummer: drums, bass, bass drone, high guitar drone, vocals.
vonHummer is a Portland music/cable access legend whose career spanned from Fall of 2001 to Fall of 2011, during which he
recorded a hundred or so songs for use in his absurdist show (and feature film) and played only a handful of concerts. Currently retired, his work shines on for the ages. Or will he someday return...?...more
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