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This was a staple of Mary's set in 1990-91, usually an opener. A demo version appeared on the AM GOD cassette and a lo-fi live version appeared on the Day Of Infamy album. Lyrics were written while sitting on the toilet (over several "sessions").

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We came from the land of rain
Stars in our eyes and a female name
We scrape up off the bottom on our knees all the same
What does it take to get ahead?
Say the right things, sleep in the right bed
The five-year plan can change a mortal man

Once in a while you find a soul
Where devotion sinks in and love takes hold
And you curse and curse the first day you know it's love
And what does it take to be a man?
Wasting time in another fuck-band?
The five-year curse has left me terse and hungry

Time beats on me like rain
Wasted on my window pain
Wanting for the secret glimpse of what a man should never see
Your neighbor is your enemy
So come and find your identity
It's never too late to learn the value of hate

Idols and images were always too much for us
We'd share your apathy before we'd share your disgust
We never had time to find a political schtick
And if you turned your back on our favorite cause
You wouldn't even make us sick

But when the flag start flying and the sheets come down
And the swastika spraypaint all over town
Has the hippies scratching head in disillusion
They can't believe they backed the wrong revolution
And your best friend's piety becomes a joke
As the houses and the bodies go up in smoke
The day your leaders stop their lies
Well, that's the day that everybody dies

On the wall... (spraypaint)
On the wall... (spraypaint)
On the wall... (spraypaint)
On the wall... (spraypaint)

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from My Secret Life As A Deviant, released March 15, 2011

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El Demento Los Angeles, California

Solo work from Deviant (the long time underground musician) that spun-off in the early 2000s as dark man-and-his-guitar project that has since had the occasional inclusion of a side man or looping station. The El Demento monicker came from a friend of friend who always accidentally referred to him as "Demento" instead of "Deviant" -- it gradually became an inside joke when playing without a band. ... more

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