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I Didn't Come to this Stupid Planet

from Human Music by Bill White

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this song is about destiny, one's sense of purpose. many have none and think whatever crap they do is the bee's knees. others are rougher on themselves. this is where i diverge from the fawm philosophy of praising the act of any song, no matter how trivial, to the level of ultimate human accomplishment. never quiet your inner critic. it is all you have to push you onward to improvement. work work work and work and work harder until your whole life becomes a song...the song of yourself. what you accomplish is what will define your culture. this is a song about the many traps potential artists fall into upon arrival in this stupid world. a nod should be given to nick roegs excellent film, the man who fell to earth, which spells out the theme much better than i ever could.

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i did not come to this stupid planet
to gawk at the pyramids, to climb the peaks of everest
to climb down into a volcano
or gaze out from the heights of machu piccu
i did not come here to surf a 50 foot wave
blow my mind on a hundred micrograms of LSD
or to geek out in front of 75,000 people
on a fifty foot high stage
littlered with instruments and amplifiers
i did not come to this stupid planet
to repeat shit i heard on television
or read in newspapers
i did not come to buy and sell houses
to enrich myself through inflation

or tp write books that stultify the minds
of their readers
no



i did what i could
but it wasnt much
but i walked away from the wreck
without a crutch

even the fastest race car
ends up sputtering down a cul de sac
and the biggest, loudest blowhard
eventually runs out of gas

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from Human Music, released January 31, 2024

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