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The Past Is Just The Past

by Jack Frederick

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1.
Genius Is In Just Getting It Done 03:42
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I’m the only one You can’t have all the fun We ought to save you some Given the fact that you’re already dead Unbelievable Used to be the bull We can ace it all When the bar is lowered to the grave We’ve started something Started and there’s no telling when it’s done It’s hardly something We should be ashamed of, but there you are I’ll tell you something You can be no shinier than a stone Intent is nothing Genius is in just getting it done Aluminum Youth derision We can all be one When the worms have opened up our brains We’ve started something Started and there’s no telling when it’s done It’s hardly something We should be ashamed of, but there you are I’ll tell you something You can be no shinier than a stone Intent is nothing Genius is in just getting it done
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The Truth, Well... 04:09
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How much should I share? How much should I put out there? How much should I even care? How much should I be aware What if i don't care? What if I don’t sit and stare? What if I don’t pet the mare? What if I don’t even care? Am I not a man? Am I not a caravan? Am I not dirt in the sand? Am I just not who I am? How come I break down? How come you don't come around? How come we can’t just astound Every time we touch the ground? Time, time is hard It’s just too much Every second hand is faded by your touch Time, time is cruel It’s ruled by the youth We are fated to be too old to tell the truth well Focus, focus here Every great deed, every tear Focusses upon the fear When they should focus up here I’ll do what I like I’ll do anything but twice I’ll do all that comes to mind I’ll do, at least for this time Time, time is hard It’s just too much Every second hand is faded by your touch Time, time is cruel It’s ruled by the youth We are fated to be too old to tell the truth well How much should I know? How much should I ever grow? How much should I keep below and how much should I let go?
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Mr. Leroy Brown 03:41
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Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never around Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never around He’s been here in the morning He leaves his dirty dishes and a pan of crusty eggs And then I wash them alone I’m always finding charges I’m always finding bank accounts are closed I watch the money, but it never grows Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s always never around Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never around When I’m home from the office There’s always just a darkness to the air I check the carpets but there’s never a smear I always close the curtains I’m certain that I did it, but there they are, as wide as day Is somebody home? Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s always never around Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never always around Who’s clothes are in the basket? It’s hard to tell what’s mine anymore. I do his laundry, but I’m living alone My memories are hazy. I’m losing track for hours, Here he comes, It’s Mr. Brown again, But where have I gone? Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never around Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s always never around My friends are on the lookout I told them he’s about my weight and size We’ll have to wait and see, but no luck so far I feel like it’s a fiction I know it’s not a picture perfect plan, but it’s realistic And it’s better than none Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s never never around Mr. Leroy Brown Mr. Leroy Brown, he’s always always always always around
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The Past Is Just The Past 03:58
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I said "why not?" I said "why not?" Why not give up and tear it all apart? Oh, what’s the point? Oh, what's the point? What’s the point of keeping the dead alive? And it makes a lot of sense to just forget about the past You never really had it, and you never will again And everything is golden when it isn’t happening The future is perfection And the past is just The past is just The past is just The past is just the past. You don’t need proof. You don’t need proof You don’t need proof to prove that you’re alive An artifact An artifact An artifact is ego on your back And it makes a lot of sense to just forget about the past You never really had it and you never will again And everything is golden when it isn’t happening The future is perfection And the past is just The past is just The past is just The past is just the past. Don’t slam the cell, Don’t bar the gate Don’t doom yourself to only being great Don’t close the door Don’t lock the key Perception is what you want it to be And it makes a lot of sense to just forget about the past. You never really had it and you never will again And everything is golden when it isn’t happening The future is perfection And the past is just, The past is just, The past is just, The past is just the past.
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Growth Rings 05:28
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It’s over now It’s not like before It isn’t your fault It’s not anyone’s Images Within the cracks of the flame They come and they go They’re never the same What if the past was just a lie? What if I made it in my mind? What if the facts were never checked? What if we never even met? Pick up the phone, let everyone know that you’re alive and well Please don’t let the only measure of your being be myself I am so inaccurate, I can’t believe a single thought The memory's too perfect to be anything but be made up The manticore We kept in the cave It’s getting a job So it decided to shave And mysteries Beneath the crust of the earth They’re never exactly what you’d Hoped they’d end up being worth And we are running out of time Yeah we are running out of time And I can see it there behind us I don’t know how but somehow it found us Ice Age comes around again and can’t believe that we’re still here We pretend we can’t believe it’s really been a solid year We are stuck invoking rituals we made when we were young To avoid the passing of another circle in the trunk In Zanzibar We slept in the cove We lived in the rocks We did what we chose But in the fort, There wasn’t a ghost The kingdom was gone From pillar to post What if the past was just a lie? What if we made it in our minds? What if the steady course of death Made every second feel possessed? Memories of wild things we did when we were feeling free Running through the hour glass and screaming like a fever dream Is my vision better in a letter than when I can see? Am I more alive when I am living in a memory?

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released August 25, 2015

Cover photo by Gavin Price, Samantha Seerman, and Jack Frederick.
Special thanks to Jaymay for her Casio and her dog.
All instruments recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jack Frederick in Queens, NY.
Copyright 2015

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Jack Frederick Brooklyn, New York

Jack Frederick is a multi-instrumental songwriter from New York.

His music has been featured in MTV's The World of Jenks, Hunger Artist Film's The Fighter, Eric Douglas Ward's Prolix, and others.

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