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The Octopus Is Sad

from Evil Against Evil by The Psychic Alliance

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For my friend Kira Sawatzky who I once bragged to that I could write a song about anything on the spot. She said "Sad octopus," and much to my surprise this song came out fully formed, lyrics and all on the first run through. That used to happen a lot when I first started writing songs, less now that I constantly second guess my intuition.

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The Octopus is sad.
He dreams his life is colored
with the dreariest melancholy
one ever could imagine
The Octopus has been thinking about all the shit he's done to people
and every time he's let them down or made them cry aloud
but if there's any light within his vacant eyes
you'll never see through his disguise and you'll never recognize
Cuz the Octopus is glamorous he wears a three piece suit and smiles
goes to all the bright cafes, the people know his name
He'll walk down to the market square
to search beneath the apples there
talk to the bananas as he winks at the grocery boys
and if there's any light within his vacant eyes you'll never
see through his disguise and you'll never recognize
that the Octopus is tired of his life he'd like to call it quits
just turn out every light then maybe go to sleep forever
the Octopus has been feeling rather ill
all his possessions drag him down
below the darkest depths where the octopuses drown
and if there's any light within his vacant eyes
you'll never see through this disguise, you ain't never gonna recognize.

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from Evil Against Evil, released April 30, 2017
Banjo by Marc Guenette, Kazoo by Shaun Lee

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The Psychic Alliance Vancouver, British Columbia

The less you know about this band, the better. Rumor has it that they're very bad people, paranoid, misanthropic, frequently given to melancholy and intellectual dullards to boot. Stories of vicious infighting and naughtiness follow them like a black cloud, and the threat of immediate collapse is constant. Fortunately they look cool. ... more

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