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leftovers

by Brett Rawalt

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disclaimer 00:52
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this album is not very good it's crucial that this point be understood listen to my words reduce expectations by at least two thirds lower your standards, lower your standards then it's not so bad when it's really that bad lower your standards, lower your standards and it just might be the best time that we ever had
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airplane food 01:54
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airplane food, airplane food you hate it, yet you eat it icky icky airplane food "chicken or beef?" the stewardess says what am i supposed to say? it really doesn't matter what you feed me cause it's gonna end up in the barf bag anyway
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jelly donut 01:05
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jelly donut: that is what we are so much more spiritual than a salad bar a jelly donut is circular in shape symbolizing unity like good old grey duct tape glazed or powdered, sugared or plain it's what's inside that matters the jelly remains, it stains, let's sing the big refrain jelly donut! jelly donut! jelly donut! jelly donut! let's all have jelly donuts!
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red vines 02:40
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you are my sunshine, my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are grey you'll never know, dear, how much i love you please don't take my sunshine away red licorice, red licorice i sure do like me some red licorice it's good for you, so nutritious too red licorice, it's just so delish you are my red vines, my only red vines you make me happy when skies are grey you'll never know, dear, how much i love you please don't take my red vines away don't take my red licorice from me although i'd like to see you try because i'm packing heat, that's why
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daylight savings 03:44
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spring forward, fall back this is alaska, so what's the point? daylight savings is stupid! the sunrise today was freakin' four in the morning daylight savings is stupid! six months of winter i can't see a flipping thing dear alaska legislature: could you do something just this once? could you pass some legislation that would benefit all of us? cause we don't really care about your stupid budget difficulties don't really care about oil tax reform we don't even care about the permanent fund dividend oh.. haha! obviously i got carried away there of course we want our dividends of course we still want that of course we expect our government to provide us with cold hard cash "senator, do you have any comment?" "uhh.. is that what this whole song's about? the legislative session's out! we only work about half the year make ninety grand or pretty near these are tough times for all alaskans but a legislative pay cut? well, we are opposed to that daylight savings is stupid! the sunrise today was freakin' four in the morning daylight savings is stupid! six months of winter i can't see a flipping thing daylight savings is stupid! why hasn't anybody changed this already? daylight savings is stupid! cause nobody wants it i mean literally nobody
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vehicular manslaughterish 03:27
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i wrote a love song to no one in particular to a fable far from reality a love song to someone hypothetical and mythical like a mermaid from the sea intangible and slippery jane's brain was just too small tina was simply way too tall debbie spent her entire dividend buying dumpdrucks of denim down at the dimond mall and i just didn't get that at all so it's a love song to no one in particular a concept i want to get across a love song that just might sound familiar to anyone who's dared to love and lost and feeling slightly doublecrossed kate thought i should lose weight and sheena, well she was jealous of kate and nancy thought i danced much like a penguin that was stoned on opiates so let me reiterate that love songs ain't fun when you ain't got no one the implication just might cause you to run over pedestrians just for fun cause love songs are dangerous love songs are cruel but that's what good songwriters do love songs are difficult love songs are hard love songs make your puppy wanna throw up and piss in your bed and eat the upholstery in your new car and that's why it's a love song to no one in particular an homage to one i've never met a love song that make me go vehicular manslaughterish on the roads inside my head and the wheels are turning red running over all the dead the wheels are turning red it's a love song to no one at all
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the perils of overzealous zombie novel consumerism 03:42
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paper pages turning red terrifying tales of the undead more and more the gore arrived at her door till a mountain surrounded her bed this castle of literature held her as captive so many had never been read but the shipping was free with her membership active ohhh.. chilling thrillers and time to kill mighty river runs through brazil door-to-door made poor her dismal credit score so the maiden stood up in her bed the suddenness made her dizzy and nervous her plan of escape was named 'fred' of the united states (u.s.) postal service ohhh.. the postal carrier set her free now she only reads mysteries
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frozen groundhog prelude 00:31
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queen of the cubicle people 02:34
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although it's early can't you see that your presence makes us so happy we're so happy that you're here we're just sorry that there is no beer queen of the cubicle people we welcome thee queen of the cubicle people we are your team queen of the cubicle people you're so esteemed queen of the cubicle people we welcome thee she's the queen of the cubicle people
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checking 01:50
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checking, checking savings, savings checking (the microphone) saving (your life) why am i singing at the bank? why am i robbong this bank? and i never wanted to make a deposit and i never wanted to come out of the closet but i'm gay am i gay? wait, i'm not gay i'm just happy
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seriously, i only wrote this song for a musical 03:40
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colleen, colleen / mini pigtails and tshirt green colleen, colleen / the cleanest ears that i have seen today they're just as good as dumbo's by the way except that they're not flightworthy nor gray and when you dance it's almost like you just invented fun your smile is shining brighter than the moon and stars and sun i think you're hotter than 400,000,000 gas stations exploding colleen, colleen / entirely enthralling colleen, colleen / can't you hear me calling on your phone perhaps you could try changing your ringtone that one sounds like it's a xylophone nothing else will rhyme. wait.. ice cream cone! michigan, michigan's cool with me (yeah) you smile at me and i can't hear i feel like dancing for a year i'm smashed without a drop of beer colleen, colleen / tastier than dairy queen colleen, colleen / not tall or short just imbetween colleen, colleen / a resurrected norma jean colleen, colleen / oh won't you be my darling for a week it'll go by faster than you think it's national be nice to a geek week you're so unique you make me gleek colleen
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sarong song 01:05
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i mashed my finger and it hurt it hurt like a pimple that's about to squirt just like all drummers just wanna be neil peart he's the drummer from 'rush' and they're a band from canada you're probably right this is all wrong cause this is an improvisational song just making it up as i go along uhh.. a skirt in malaysia is called a 'sarong'
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scurvy 03:50
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we do this weird dance to stave off hypothermia it could save your life if you don't get a hernia i know you work in development what kind of photos do you develop? kelly donnelly your lunches are so healthy got hummus and kale and assorted greens that are leafy kelly donnelly you're smiling so creepily and you're kicking butt just like a wild donkey that was trained by bruce lee can you believe you're thirty? no no you want a good martini well you better make it dirty (from what i understand now) larger women who are nothing like you they are curvy you don't eat your fruits and vegetables you'll get scurvy that's right scurvy don't get scurvy no not scurvy nooooo it's just so preventable how in the world did you ever get scurvy no not scurvy i don't understand how you could ever get scurvy cause you're always eating all that healthy crap all the time don't get scurvy no no nooo don't get scurvy
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vending machine 02:48
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this is probably not good for me this is probably not good for me this is probably real bad for me this is probably really bad vending machine vending machine vending machine unhealthy vending machine I. DON'T. CARE. vending machine vending machine vending machine i love you vending machine
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the frozen groundhog theme 01:08
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cheese (live) 03:17
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we all like cheese
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three layers of cheese 02:17
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we all like cheese i'm lactose intolerant but that just makes it taste better when i have it anyways

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"Man, The Tibetan Punks were awesome. If only Brett had kept going with THAT. His music was so much more tolerable when he was making stupid childish crap." If this is a thought that you can relate to, then this album is for YOU!!

Please hold no illusions of this album being a serious venture at any point of the journey. I briefly considered the title "Silly Songs with Brett" except for the nagging thought that it still might lead some to assume TOO HIGHLY of the album's actual quality. Every single song is positively juvenile. You may now consider yourself duly warned.

Out of all the countless songs I have written and recorded, this is a collection of the ones that did not make the cut. These are the outcasts, the rejects, the tunes that didn't quite fit and were cast aside. Over the years, the scrap heap grew. Until I eventually ran out of good ideas, and started to reconsider the bad ones. It's like going to your kitchen when you're hungry, and discovering that you have no actual food in the refrigerator. Your circumstance creates an opportunity that inspires you to invent the condiment sandwich.

So, well... here it is. A few of the ingredients have probably expired, some of the cheese may have turned. But the important thing (to me) is that IT IS DONE. Putting this album out – and admitting its existence – is actually therapeutic. All these little orphans have finally found a home, and I can fully embrace the newfound freedom to do something completely different. Onward and upward, as they say.

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released January 14, 2019

All songs written and composed by Brett Rawalt. Being a huge egomaniac, he also played all the instruments and sang all the vocals EXCEPT for the following:

Suzi Rawalt - vocals on 'red vines'
Arlene Schaefer - vocals on 'daylight savings'
Michael Holtz - drums on 'vehicular manslaughterish'
Aaron Gray - background vocals on 'vehicular manslaughterish'
Jeremy McKinney - vocals on 'three layers of cheese'

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brett rawalt Anchorage, Alaska

Not trying to be a rock star. I just like writing songs. (and one book.)

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