Name: Totemtown
Duration: P00H03M05S
Description: I've re-recorded this song a lot. I haven't really been super happy with any of the recordings but it's a fun song to play and sing. This is the way I currently sing it. I messed up on the guitar during the bridge but it's more honest this way. ;] Fun fact: the notepad file for this song is named "buffalo.txt"

Totemtown

from It's an Oldie Where I Come From: a Collection of Splits, B-Sides, and Re-Recordings by Self Proclaimed Narcissist

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I've re-recorded this song a lot. I haven't really been super happy with any of the recordings but it's a fun song to play and sing. This is the way I currently sing it. I messed up on the guitar during the bridge but it's more honest this way. ;] Fun fact: the notepad file for this song is named "buffalo.txt"

lyrics

Standard Capo 1

Chorus: C
Verse: Am F
Bridge: C D E F G F E D

Are we going to Totemtown? Where the wolves are friendly
and I am not alone
I'll take off my bandit mask and pretend that I am part of the pack
because I don't wanna be alone

Well the Buffalo roams where I wanna go
but I've never been where the buffalo go
about these things I do not know
I can not know what I don't know but

Vicariously I've lived it all
been to the southern bay and the Eden wall
the screaming elephant he said to me
"Ya know, it really ain't that bad to be alone"

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Well the screeching hawk it rages on
with the jealous veins it thrives upon
peers straight through the veil and soars on down now
to grasp that trophy that I have found and

It justifies the virus filled crack
Encouraging every self destructive act
the crippled sloth whispers upon my ear that
it's hard to get use to being alone

Totemtown's brown with a church painted red and burn like hell it shall not fail
Totemtown burns just like everything burns for the duration of my existance
for the deceivery of me & B & Key & B & T & Lie (lee)
Totemtown shines with rust and grime and to the dirt you shall return to remain as dirt

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from It's an Oldie Where I Come From: a Collection of Splits, B-Sides, and Re-Recordings, released October 27, 2012

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DIY Folk-Punk // Anti-Folk // Honesty Folk from Oregon.

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