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The Cosmic Quid Pro Quo

by Waxahachie

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You can bet your life, your home Everything you own Toiling in unending despair Decrying about whether or not it's all fair An obstacle to reality The banality of this duality Or an exercise is neo quasi-personality We spend money That we don't have On the things that we don't need To impress people we don't know To impress people who don't care
2.
With rampant mood swings - she will crush his dreams She will do such things - to control extremes She'd rather be happy than be right I'd rather be right than be happy Cuz if I am right then I will be happy Happy even though she will not go She will not go, she just won't go A great place to go for a spell or spot Is anywhere that she is not But now if you must Ask yourself be you rather happy than be right If so lock the one you live with up at night Up at night, she'd rather be happy than be right I'd rather be right than be happy For if I'm right - I'll then be happy
3.
Of you I've scant interest in And how can I begin To explain how the end was at end Before it began That's how fast it started to end It was the end before it began Each day I found you could not get worse Then the next day I found you could You gave the worst of both worlds That's how fast it started to end It was the end before it began Actually it was you not me Don't take it pejoratively Don't take it personally
4.
Zodiac Panic 01:11
We're too ill-at-ease to do Anything we used to do Your omnipresent elbow in my back Our Zodiac Panic
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With us, all of us I've low expectations Too familiar with our erroneous zones I'm going back to where and when I was Cuz yer a highly organized Virgo Finding you more vain than Rousseau Everything got weird once you started producing that strange fire Gotta get back to where and when I was And yer at the top of my To Don't list Oh I'll be getting back to where I when and was And I'm also waiting til I get to Heaven to ride a horse You'll see how and know why it does I'm getting back to where and when I was
7.
Utter quackery Like people who smile at policeman Utter quackery When you say I say things when I don't It's not you - it's me But don't take it personally Ok, maybe it's you But don't take it personally It's utter quackery He didn't pick up a penny he saw on the sidewalk He left it for an even bigger loser than himself Like the kind of a guy who would ask a woman out- While he was looking at her car that she had listed for sale in the newspaper
8.
I can't get past the Past I keep looking back Consumed with regret I just can't forget The view from my cage I see so much that is crude Like when the Bros. Lopez served inauthentic Mexican food The difference between me and you Is the difference between cement and glue I don't know why but I know it's true And for that this means For that this means this is a rigged game You got to name it and claim it Blab it and grab it Confess to possess You doubt you go without This life is set up for you to lose No matter what you might choose So thank God for good luck and chance I can't get past the Past I keep looking back This inner struggle of fate wretched and complex Don't ever ask what's... Thank God for good luck... And - Don't ever ask what's next (what now?)
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A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still Some cosmopolitan angle of enlightenment Persuades you of your entitlement Unknowing in what it brings Unknowing it's the grand scam of things Capitulating to the spirit of the age And what it brings Unwilling to accept your wish is not the bell that rings Unwilling to accept it's the grand scam of things
10.
I'm open to new ideas Just not any of yours And I'm not sure what you're planning But plan to keep me out You're a hyper-skanky maladroit And you remind me of Detroit You remind me of Detroit But not in a good way You remind me of Detroit There's a bigger part of me For a better part of you When that shines through You'll know what I'll do Until then cram it up yer chrome Get up, get out, go back home

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The Cosmic Quid Pro Quo is the second album from WAXAHACHIE, the latest home recording project by guitarist Duane Rubinowits. On this album there is a tenuous pursuit for a vague and scattered encouragement for at least a fragmentary, yet efficacious, discussion of the individual's conscious (yet usually and quite profoundly subconscious and subjectively wrought) tit-for-tat pursuit with the Transcendental Signified (aka The Cosmic Quid Pro Quo).

The songs are much like the previous album, inherently nesting in a purposefully non-commercial strata of math-ish rock, pseudo-jazz, and an irreverent whatever-ness. The lineup is essentially the same but with a different drummer and some new participants.

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released September 1, 2013

Waxahachie is:
Duane Rubinowits - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Keyboards

With inestimable assistance and voluminous generosity from:

Pat Carmody - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Slide Guitar
Steve Riley - Drums
Corey Ruffin - Horns, Vocals
Tragic Jack Jorgenson - Vocals, Add'l Bass & Guitar
DeJuan Skelton - Vocals, Add'l Bass
Matt Radowski - Vocals, Sitar
Floyd Bender - Add'l Guitar, Bass & Vocals
Jimi Ployhar, Jeremy Serwer, Bram Iverson, DJ Pitch Intense - Vocals
Anthony Passonno, Ray Shafer - Add'l Keys

All Songs by Duane Rubinowits - Crusty Spatula Music
Mixed by Jeremy Serwer
Mastered by Justin Freund
Album Cover Design by Samuel Ford Briggs III (SFB Version 3)

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Waxahachie Seattle, Washington

WAXAHACHIE is a three album recording project from 2006-2014 by guitarist Duane who hails from the region a chicken's throw below the web of skin betwixt the index finger and thumb, in the topography that is Michigan.

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