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Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Catastrophe

from Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Catastrophe by Zansman

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A reference to the Disney classic the Aristocats. The song is about losing your mind and trying to find the bridge between reality and fantasy and between an artistic catastrophe trope and failure.

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Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Catastrophe


Verse 1

Years from now I'm gonna look back
And years from that I'm gonna look back again
On how I lost my track
And tried to find my way back again
I captivate those thoughts
Imprison them and impeach them
But as soon as they are caught
I don't think I'll ever reach them

Pre Chorus

It's a fairytale
The Grimm reaper oh yeah
It's adventure time
but I guess it's deeper oh yeah oh no

Chorus

I've tried so many times
to read between the lines
but I don't think my brain really got there
I thought I would've known it
where I was at the moment
but it turns out that I was not there
Now I gotta think of another way
Look at it differently as they say
Maybe I will get a different answer
Because what I do now just won't work
And I the more I try the more I hurt
And who knows what I'm really after


Verse 2

Some years ago tried to look forth
And things never turned out as I imagined
And time after time it all fell short
Like a loser in a beauty pageant
And I must revisit all my goals
and my biggest mistake and what caused it
And search through my pocket holes
I'm sure I had something there before I lost it

Pre Chorus

It's a tragedy
Shakespearian daydream oh yeah
It's a travesty
A wake up call for those who may dream oh yeah oh no

Bridge

I guess it's just a parenthesis
Nothing more and nothing less
I don't know what I meant of this
It's not much, I guess
And it's just an apostrophe
A hammer on the nail
Everybody wants to be a catastrophe
But nobody wants to fail

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from Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Catastrophe, released July 27, 2017
Written by René May 2017
Recorded in June 2017

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