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Everybody Out

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This song is pretty bone simple and derivative (not a bad thing necessarily), but we play it a lot live to this day. Kelly is the song's most insistent champion in terms of keeping it in the set. I remember writing this with Kelly at my ex-girlfriend's mother's house, of all places. My ex-girlfriend's mother considers me part of her family, even post-break-up, and there was a period of time when I used her house as a kind of song-and-fiction-writing studio in the early-to-mid-'90s. I think, by now, she has convinced herself that she gave birth to me. She worked all day as a therapist, so the house was empty. I remember visiting her office one day and seeing a sand box full of toys; apparently a variety of therapy called "sand play." I now keep a sand box in my living room, and damn if it doesn't work wonders on my disposition.
-gg

lyrics

If it breaks down, guess it's my fault
Lock me inside, turn out the lights
I feel so lost left with the crowd
You've got some nerve throwing me out

The closer I get the smaller you seem
You don't have shit if you lose me
I can't back down if you pull that
Don't you walk away, don't you walk away

If it's not right, if there's no time
get them out fast, I want them alive
You can't go back if I break down
Don't you walk away, don't you walk away

Sort it out quick, you can't take both
As much as you hold, much as you hold
Forty-odd dead, looks like we're next
Everybody out

If it don't stop...

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from 20 Minute Loop, released August 21, 1999
Music: Greg Giles, Kelly Atkins
Lyrics: Kelly Atkins

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Original music for the hook-hungry mob, the nervous foot, the jaded indie-phile.

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