Optimistic Fruit

from A Fly on the Wall of Your Brain EP by The Fabulous 464s

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It’s another day under lock and key, mistaking inconvenience for tragedy
And the antiseptic hush would make a doctor’s office blush
And everything is bigger inside than out

I heard it said that life’s a bowl of cherries, but I’m on a roll as a very
Rotten lemon made into rotten lemonade
Playing cards in an orchard in bloom, we can be counted on to
Madly follow suit with other forms of optimistic fruit

And who would ever request parole, when hope is smeared on a barber pole?
And oh, how we watch it rise, least until the viewer dies
But no help is coming however much you shout

I heard it said that life’s a bowl of cherries, but down I roll as a very
Rotten lemon made into rotten lemonade
Playing cards in an orchard in bloom, we can be counted on to
Madly follow suit with other forms of optimistic fruit

Screaming out my attitude for all to hear, answered with the platitude “The Mall Is Near!”
And then it’s home for television, television, television, television, television, TV

Though I know it’s claimed so many tongues, I yell into the fan at the top of my lungs
But I’ll surely live out my days where the lotus eaters graze
And no one gets what I’d have to cry about

I heard it said that life’s a bowl of cherries, but I’ve found a role as a very
Rotten lemon made into rotten lemonade
Playing cards in an orchard in bloom, we can be counted on to
Madly follow suit with other forms of optimistic fruit

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from A Fly on the Wall of Your Brain EP, released October 26, 2021

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The Fabulous 464s Portland, Oregon

The Fabulous Four Six Fours record on a four track cassette deck in Portland, OR.

They make melody- forward music with probably too many chords.

They sing tart little poems over those chords, and they put the vocal harmonies really high in the mix. And they call it quits after one or two takes.

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