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Man of Bugs

from Demo 001 by M.T. Goins

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Ageing is a subtraction game.

So many loved ones exit before us, taking with them many questions.

Got to thinking. Reckoned we often go out of this world the same way we come into it: without giving consent.

This song is about dead friends. Well, this song is about a particular dead friend and a tale of his spiral. We seldom spiral up. Therefore, the song is also about consent and how we cope with a life we didn't choose. A song where the coping and spiralling hold hands as they drop ingloriously toward the exit sign.

And this is a sketch, okay? I never had all the facts. Everything in the song came from reports, rumours and a belated confession.
Real person, real demise and real tragedy.

They weren't alone in choosing this particular coping but alone is how they chose it. Someone muttered an inane platitude like, "They fell in with a bad crowd." How utterly disgusting is this?

One of the more deplorable facets of human thinking is the gravitation towards scapegoating. Making a monster to stone. Why does this sicken me? One, this diminishes to a mere afterthought the divine interior of the person. This is a statement denying, probably, that they had a problem. That the person-no-longer-with-us was only a victim and had no story to tell. Every bad decision any of us make is ours. The people in our immediate orbit may impact us in one fashion or another but they seldom are folks hellbent on murder. They are all sons and daughters; they have parents and those parents usually have similar hopes and dreams for their children. No, they were all thrown into this and all have their own stories and one of them died.

We should be interested in their stories.

This song is about telling one of them.

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Lyrics available in the bonus material in the Full Album purchase*

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from Demo 001, released December 1, 2023
M.T. Goins - Vocals, Bass
Takehiro "Taiko" Utsuji - Guitar, Dobro
Lester Biggs - Second Guitar
Rooster - Drums
Hillbilly Choir: W. Keith Tims & Sean Elliott Harris

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M.T. Goins 東京都, Japan

ex-Chutney, Rams, Man Again
Guitar, Bass

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