Bushwick Book Club presents MISFORTUNE by Wesley Stace

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Most songs recorded live at the July 24th, 2012 Bushwick Book Club show at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn.

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released 10 September 2012
Cover/flyer by Thomas Bayne (tombayne.com)
Photos by Herb Scher (herbscher.com)

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tags: soundtrack john wesley harding misfortune songs about books welsey stace Brooklyn

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We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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Track Name: Justin Remer - Geoffroy's Song (Live In This House)
Live in this house
Forever
You will live in this house
Forever
This is your house, A-a-a-ah
Your perfect house
Forever

You shall not want
For anything
You shall not want
For anything
I will be here, A-a-a-ah
With everything
Forever

I can see you there
So small, and not a care
That is how you shall always be
Never again close your eyes because of me
Never again close your eyes because of me

Live in this house,
Dolores
A tiny, perfect house
For Dolores
I can see you there, A-a-a-ah
Yes, you may comb my hair,
Dolores

Live in this house...
Live...
Forever.
Track Name: Jonathan Mann - Misfortune
Bodies are confusing
They are fragile and built to break
Sometimes they come with extra parts
By some joke or by mistake
And when you're finally old enough
To get the most outta what you got
There's so much guilt and shame
Built up that your self worth is shot

Lift that veil
Let your mustache free
You don't have to exist within
That old dichotomy
Wear that dress
And look good doing it
Let that corset hug you
And don't let anyone ruin it

Rose Old Rose
Lord and master of Love Hall
He who strikes a beautiful pose
And then crushes the cricket ball
She who pilgrimaged alone
to Salmacis Fountain
Where she stared her body down
And was reborn upon the mountain

Abandoned on a trash heap
And a savoir so bizarre
Parents who gave you everything
But the truth of what you are
A lifetime of denial
And something finally clicks
You are strong and versatile
And if you're not broke don't fix

Let them stare
Let them be obscene
Let yourself be who you are
You're twice the human being
Let them call you names like
Lady Skimmington
Let them try
To make you just like them

Rose Old Rose
Lord and master of Love Hall
He who curtsies, bows and poses
And then crushes the cricket ball
She who pilgrimaged alone
to Salmacis Fountain
Where she stared her body down
And was reborn upon the mountain

A murderer and a dogboy
A siren and a priest
Your family got the best of you
But then woke your sleeping beast
Ain't it just like a family
To try to keep you from what is yours
Ain't it just like a family
To help you fight all of your wars

Cross your family's line
Show them who is boss
Show them you don't have to choose
Random ass coin toss
Lift that veil
Let your mustache shine
The face that launched 1000 songs
A face of your own design
Track Name: Susan Hwang - Let Love Hall Go
Let the pants drop.
Choose your accoutrements.
Everyone's someone's perfect dream.

Forgive your parents.
They gave the best they got.
Things are rarely as they seem.

Two acts of love and everything's changed.
Sometimes that's all it takes.
Someone to find you
and bring you back,
breathe when you can't.
Tell you they love you
and let you choose,

So you were a girl
who was really a boy
something not so many knew of then.

You were an orphan
who was really the heir
to the house that he grew up in.

Your good luck masquerades
as bad luck but it's plain
that your misfortune is your fortune --
a lucky botched abortion
the truth in contortion
if you choose
to see it that way.

Let Love Hall go
and all its riches.
Let Love Hall go.
The confusing gender switches.
Let Love Hall go
the unfulfilled wishes.

You get it back
when you let Love Hall go.
You get your love
when you let Love Hall go.
Don't worry there's more love
when you let Love Hall go.
Track Name: Natti Vogel - Halicarnassus
I don't believe in magic
I'm not a fool, no
It wasn't always this tragic
In fact, the wind used to rescind
At the flick of my wrist, but
the Earth is loose on its axis
And it will no longer do to stem the tilt
Since the second-hand news broke that
I'm no longer fit to be loved
If they only knew what I know, that
All our bets are off

I want to let it happen
Plunge into the green
This shallow maintenance
Won't lay it's taint on me
Not me!

I was reared as a theory
And I'm a beautiful one
But they don't theories seriously here
So if I'm just a dream, that's what I'll be
Since the second-hand news broke that
I'm no longer fit to be loved
If they only knew what I know now
All our bets are off

I want to let it happen
Get raped by the reeds
This god-darn doggerel won't doggone girdle me
Not me!