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Single released with Determined on Oxo records in 1992.

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Lyrics by Rebecca (Reba) Fritz

Happy

Saturday afternoon, standing in the red orange room where the shadows twist in and out and back and forth,
blue curtains pulled aside, half the room in shadow half in sunlight,
tracing along, not sure where I belong when I am the half light.
The windows are open though it’s only early March but I am not cold and my eyes are closed
and I’m jumping around to an album he found
running into furniture running down the hall, like the voices of a mother called
And the wishing years are over though the wanting ones have just begun,
sweet fruits of disillusionment are falling from the table one by one,
and it’s so strange so simple to admit to this that I may be be be happy.

This pessimism is such a fun house tainted vice (?) but it fits so well (?) to this life.
But it’s not what it seems. This may be your mind but its just like he said this coin could fail either way.
And the wishing years are over though the wanting ones have just begun,
sweet fruits of disillusionment are falling from the table one by one,
and it’s so strange so simple to admit to this that I may be be be happy.

Wipe the hand across his face and find emotions erase like a pencil drawing, and (?) to go this time.

So lets go back to the beginning, beginning of the end maybe. This life is such, and he reads too much into things he shouldn’t read, an eye for a tooth and a nickel for a dime if I could take it or leave it I’d leave it every time.
And the wishing years are over though the wanting ones have just begun,
sweet fruits of disillusionment are falling from the table one by one,
and it’s so strange so dear to me though it’s all I see and I see your mind like it’s gone away
so I struggle for a definition of this thing I’m not so sure I should define, how do you take achievement graciously when you’re waiting for a punch line at the end I know it seem so ridiculously strange to have to be be be happy.

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from In a Mess, In a State, and a Second Too Late, released November 12, 2021
Vocals, guitar Rebecca (Reba) Fritz
Guitar John Crozier
Bass Ben Boyd
Drums Eric Tretbar

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