Name: Harder to Pretend
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Another big bang opening in the Rocket Park tradition. Heavily inspired by the Move's "What?" and the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus". The old alien foundling mythos, as popularized by David Bowie and Kurt Cobain, with a twist of Serling.

Harder to Pretend

from The Effects of Eating Too Much Television by Rocket Park

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Another big bang opening in the Rocket Park tradition. Heavily inspired by the Move's "What?" and the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus". The old alien foundling mythos, as popularized by David Bowie and Kurt Cobain, with a twist of Serling.

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when he was a child he always felt he was a stranger
and he dreamed of silver starships from the skies
he wondered why they'd left him on this often hostile planet
scanned the shortwave for an alien reply
he would stay up all night
waiting by his open window
for the flashing lights from heaven to descend
every now and then he'd say,
"at last! oh, just an airplane"
and he found it that much harder to pretend

in his adolescence he encountered the rejection
of his parents and his teachers and his peers
he didn't know how to conform nor how to be himself
he only knew how to express himself in tears
he would stay up all night
lying on his soiled mattress
waiting for an emissary to befriend
every now and then
he'd listen to the roaring silence
and he found it that much harder to pretend

finally had it sized up
he grew up and wised up
damned his dreams as infantile
made the big decision
to give up his vision
gave the world a winning smile

then one day long after he'd abandoned his delusions
and accepted his terrestrial address
he was caught within a beam of purest, whitest light
and he was shanghaied by the Milky Way Express
he would stay up all night
in his laboratory cage
to greet the rescue party planet Earth would send
every now and then
he'd glance at fellow zoo exhibits
and he found it that much harder to pretend

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from The Effects of Eating Too Much Television, released September 15, 2000
written by Brian Andrew Marek, Michael Thompson and Eric Moore

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Rubberstamp Records is a DIY indie record label based in the Saint Louis, MO area and helmed by local music scene veteran Brian Andrew Marek.

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