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Fan Of The Common Man

from reinventing of the wheel by One Finite Monkey

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Sometimes it really blows my mind
the many ways we waste our time
NFL and Elvis shrines
on the news get equal time
and in this zoo of modern man
we've natural habitation plans
with remote controls and Campbells cans
and a dog-eared issue of Wired.
You rub your wand until you get your wish.
What's wrong with this? What's wrong with this?

A politician does Pinocchio
with a wooden head and expanding nose
in a pseudo-Caesar pose
in a luxury land turned hovel.
They'll tell you work's it's own reward;
I burn my bread by staying bored
like a serf before his lord
with nothing to do but grovel
and hope to give that gold ring a kiss.
What's wrong with this? What's wrong with this?

And I'm wild in a civilized land,
like a child with a kind of cynical plan.
Here I go, trying to understand
and be a fan, a fan of the common man.

I get that every life is hard.
You charge it to a credit card
to reap a feeble cash reward
and talk of compromise or
you tell me that it's wasting time,
the punishment begets the crime
and I'll respond just like a mine
to leave you none the wiser.
It's nice if you get the gist.
What's wrong with this? What's wrong with this?

And I'm wild in a civilized land,
like a child with a kind of cynical plan.
Here I go, trying to understand
and be a fan, a fan of the common man.

Somehow we all learn to be free
like great apes and sea monkeys
who procreate and try to please;
their home resembles a bubble.
The success measuring meter stick
is not unlike the parlor tricks
of dogs and cats in circus shtick
scratching at day-old stubble.
You lift your leg to mark your lot with piss.
What's wrong with this? What's wrong with this?

And I'm wild in a civilized land,
like a child with a kind of cynical plan.
Here I go, trying to understand
and be a fan, a fan of the common man.

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from reinventing of the wheel, released January 15, 2021
OFM plays acoustic and electric guitars, egg shaker, cajon, acoustic bass, djembe, keyboards.

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One Finite Monkey Bellingham, Washington

One Finite Monkey: a veteran of a dozen bands you’ve never heard of, a player of a dozen instruments, a producer of something like 50 obscure albums, now holed up in the attic of an old house in Bellingham, Washington, writing and recording songs.

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