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Considering the week’s turn of events, these lyrics, which I love, seem radically inappropriate but when I think of myself and those like me whose natural tendency is to doubt hope (in truth a kind of insulation against disappointment, an emotion that, of late, I’ve had my fill), I think we can use a song like this to remind us that we are as ridiculous (if not more so) as those whom we disparage for displaying an emotion that we are too often too afraid to allow in ourselves.<\/p>\n

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This song – the entire album – is done in a pseudo traditional, light, soft, tight, white-guy, lounge-jazz style, which makes it all the more funny and interesting. Not for everyone but worth a listen – wish I could post more than the lyrics:<\/p>\n

Let’s Get Cynical<\/span>
\nSteve Beresford – Signals For Tea<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting here happy and talky
\nWith a sense of the start of the cynical
\nYou want to put down somebody
\nAnd I’m here to make sure it’s clinical<\/p>\n

Let’s strike while the iron is hot
\nI’m burning to be better for it
\nThere’s so much that we can destroy
\nWho cares if we can’t then restore it?<\/p>\n

Let’s get cynical
\nWhy fight the feeling?
\nBreathe deep the intoxicant air
\nTogether we’ll push back the ceiling
\nWe’ll go where the others don’t dare
\n(I don’t care)<\/p>\n

It’s like living with ants in your anus
\nIt’s like refusing to swallow your phlegm
\nTonight we’ll let nothing restrain us
\nLet’s feel free to do unto them<\/p>\n

Let’s strike while the iron is hot
\nI’m burning to be better for it
\nThere’s so much that we can destroy
\nWho cares if we can’t then restore it?<\/p>\n

Let’s get cynical
\nWhy fight the feeling?
\nBreathe deep the intoxicant air
\nTogether we’ll push back the ceiling
\nWe’ll go where the others don’t dare
\n(I don’t care)<\/p>\n

It’s like popping of pimples in fingers
\nA sensation too sweet to avoid
\nBut it changes the length that it lingers
\nLeaves you sorry for what you enjoyed
\n(paranoid)<\/p>\n

Let’s strike while the iron is hot
\nI’m burning to be better for it
\nThere’s so much that we can destroy
\nWho cares if we can’t then restore it?<\/p>\n

Let’s get cynical
\nWhy fight the feeling?
\nBreathe deep the intoxicant air
\nTogether we’ll push back the ceiling
\nWe’ll go where the others don’t dare
\n(I don’t care)<\/p>\n

-lyrics: Andrew Brenner<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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