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Susan Hwang - I Follow The Rules

from Bushwick Book Club presents Mark Twain by The Bushwick Book Club

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Inspired by LETTERS FROM EARTH. For more Susan Hwang, please visit susanhwanglalala.com .

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Atrocities beget atrocities, I always say.
Our atrocious father made us this way.
Everything is according to plan.
A life of punishment for every man.

I follow the rules
I follow God’s law, I’m small and I’m mean..
I follow God’s law, I’m ashamed and unclean.
I follow God’s law, I'm slightly obsessed with sex.
I’m just as he made me, nonsensical at best.

Seems like we don't know how to treat ourselves very well.
If life ain’t bad enough, we invent hell.
Heaven is like a big open mic with no no end
So you can’t escape suffering even with death.

Everyone’s idea of propriety
is subject to the whims of society
any random diseased caprice
to give us the means of hypocrisy.

With the lies we believe, and the misery we reap still,
It’s a wonder we’ve made anything good as a people
For miserable schmucks who believe what we’re told,
We still manage to make things like literature and rock and roll,

Barbara Stanwyck movies, Bollywood and bobophet
Every story told, every failed attempt
To explain and entertain, to understand and accept

Maybe there’s hope for us yet.

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from Bushwick Book Club presents Mark Twain, released December 10, 2012

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

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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