All For Naught (ft. Tyler Effingham)

from The Signal Glittering Inside The Storm by Dug & Happy Tooth

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lyrics

(Tyler Effingham)
All for naught and nothin to show.
I feel I'm ready to go.
My head's in a spin.
I'm losing myself again.
Everything's a mess,
but I'm okay I guess.

(Dug)
You play the role until it takes control
which should've been like
days ago or hey let's say I break the mold
I don't know.
You ask yourself why you're constantly restless.
Never that concerned with who was sonically freshest.
But like, who am I talking to?
Well what's a ball of thoughts to do?
But gnaw and chew
at everything I thought was solid
on into a wall of static.
Motion's mostly automatic.
I'm back to rip myself apart again
so fast because I've had a lot of practice.
I'm a parody
of everything I swear to be.
I'll still feel like I hardly started
even at the end I'm scared to see.
Editor's note:
You've describe the problem,
now work through it.
I never promised that.
Far as I got was maybe make some music.
Anymore I write each verse about five times.
Personally I find it all a bit trite.
Whine some more
to get away from things I whine about.
Commemorating detrimental
mental states.
I guess it's alright for now.

(Chorus)

(HT)

Every city's oversaturated
with shitty hopeless rapper faces.
My music included and gravitated.
Career in slomo,
worried about how shows go.
While everything's so-so
and my whole life get's postponed.
The dedication's designated.
Went through a set of phases
while medicated
here lookin for some better places.
Claim to be something long enough
it becomes true.
Pretended to be the sky
and ended up just blue.
As the sun moves
I've come to conclude
the more hoops that I jump through
the less I even want to.
Halfway through the year
I'll act way too sincere.
I'll laugh and say you've been weird.
Promise, I'm not an impostor.
Used to be a supposed poet
turned poser, awkward.
Followed all my favorite famous pages
and felt like a stalker.
Only life plan is to die
with like five grand.
Askin if they know who I am
to all of my nine fans.

(Chorus)
All for Naught
and nothin to show.
I feel I'm ready to go.
My head's in a spin
I'm losin myself again.
Everything's a mess
but I'm okay I guess.
Everything's alright,
cause it's just me tonight.

credits

from The Signal Glittering Inside The Storm, released March 14, 2020

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"The Signal Glittering Inside the Storm is not the Dug & Happy Tooth album that you’ll want to throw on at a party, but it is an emotional and personal album you can put on your headphones and get into some shit with. Sometimes that’s just what you need, and the Columbus duo are there for you in 2020." - Scratched Vinyl ... more