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Is This What You Hear in Your Head

by Little Big Toe

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Is it time to stay silent? The microphones have dust and webs. Will this noise be smooth or violent? As long as it don’t hurt no one But is this what you hear in your head? Bitter, sweet, or misguided The blandest beat kick-started fires Philosophies turned up their volumes Until they cooked symphonic omelletes (But) is this what you hear in your head?
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Is this what you want? Cuz honestly – the policy to me seems rather odd The hand dipped in the pot The smallest coins were left, but all the bigger ones are gone You might have heard the news While drinking fermented fruit juice The PC police came up empty The lines crossed were already used The blind spots were speckles of truth that rendered the youth bored and speechless Is this what you want? Or did further consideration leave you in this spot Is this all you’ve got? If you add up all the pieces, it still seems like a lot You might have heard the news Your judgement quickly ensued The EMT crew gave you backseat driver blues You’re bending the note up And joining the book club that erases the queued but saves all your sins You might have heard the news While drinking fermented fruit juice The PC police came up empty The lines crossed were already used The blind spots were speckles of truth that rendered the youth bored and speechless
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Dos Amores 04:53
Torn between 2 loves The money’s not enough Have a sip of tea and sigh in disbelief Cuz it’s getting ugly Feeling safe and sound with your cardboard crown Crowds will step on heads judging fallen men That mom only loves God only knows how this story unfolds Write the numbers down A decimal one tenth down changes everything Perception and deceipt that god only sees Boys can’t be a man without calculated plans Workbench heeled the pooch And the hounddog screwed it loose What should you choose? Throw water on the soil with a seed, and flowers will grow Throw dollars on the ground (chicken feed), and the vultures will show in droves The beggers and the thieves will prey on the things that you own Cash in past receipts that you owe that God only knows of
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You are a fading star The kind that goes to work with no job You are the reason’s voice The kind that slices through cutting boards He said, “You are a piece of shit” That statement stuck to me like Elmer’s glue A word that cut your skin You should not have listened Take earwax off cotton into the bin You are a silhouette of a man who used to keep promises But you are another chance An exit from a cave into a bird I’m having second thoughts The bleeding never stopped A t-shirt couldn’t wrap around and make it clot Oh my God! Rip the bandage And put the makeup on the mannequin The voice that’s to your left took you back a step How do you pay the rent with bounced checks? How does this end? Translate moving arms When vocabulary stalled Cuz words mean something different to us all All knights fall
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Y 03:59
Isn’t it a wonder our friends are here through darkness, winters and fall Isn’t it a wonder that I believe nothing after all of the goddamned thinking I’ve done Isn’t it a wonder no crumbs are left after all of the bread that we broke And I didn’t die in my sleep last night And chances are if you are hearing this, well then neither did you Isn’t it a wonder my friends are here after all of the shit that I pulled Even with all of the strength that I built, well I sure as hell could not have done it alone But the problem isn’t you Yea, the problem isn’t me Yea, the problem isn’t us It’s just a problem with this apathetic humanity Isn’t it a wonder that I can sing about any old idea that I want? But sometimes my laziness gets to me and I will spend months at a time writing nothing at all Isn’t it a wonder that life has no inherent meaning at all It’s just a meaning upon itself and no one will hear you until you break through the wall Isn’t it a wonder that we perceive the same things with different results Even with those disagreements we can sit down at the table and talk about it like we’re adults But the problem isn’t you Yea, the problem is me Yea, it’s always me So let’s sharpen this spoon and carve out a new identity
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Unlightened 05:38
I am the wheel on a spoke Balanced with a license revoked With eyesight as sharp as a telescope A marathon runner on a tightrope But I know nothing of this make believe story with a setting sun Yea, I know nothing at all Anger is untapped freedom A blister on an otherwise smooth palm The safe bet in the eye of the storm There’s still a party in the life of an animal But I know nothing of this make believe story with a setting sun Yea, I know nothing at all
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Here and now I see your tail spinning with the waving of hands Green and brown You’re matching clothes colors with a lens and a form of currency Feed the crown Your royal highness likes his cooking homemade Up your downs Prescription written by the white coat man by the flagpole Hearing your name called Here and now Your back is turned with your eyes on a dead man Secret’s out Stiches ripping, flipping names Now you are a dead man Pave the road The destination with the least resistance Kiss the toad The princess has a list of formalized assistance Hearing your name called Listen to it The blistered feedback Paper pleated with a message written to remind you Brubeck Quartet and café roasted down your gullet You didn’t learn your lesson
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If past selves told future selves the secrets of the universe Would deaf ears fall between the expression and the DNA gene And I wonder how it all would turn out if predictions on the numbers allowed for an insider trade If future self told present self the numbers to the lottery Would you lose your friends to the time you’d spend playing catch-up on your melodies Or would you be a paintless clown? Would your green turn to brown into a blue can Is your best self your present self or the future you concocted in a dream? And the credit you gave to a life you haven’t made due to actions when your past self misbehaved It’s quite obvious that truth is love And everything that you have earned is because of your present self.
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I feel so much like a fraud Your anger steals your heart You inherited the bug Why don’t handles make you fly? Did you ever wonder why? Yeah, so did I… Your anger is a crutch you’ve been leaning on too much There are other ways to walk You’re waiting on the call And walking on the coal that’s been baking in the sun There’s more to getting strong than stepping on a skull There’s more to paying credit cards than sacrificing souls
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The blind sober drunk man with the marks up and down his hands The line between sanity and sin is a fine one The scarlet letter red and the noise of the handcuff behind my head A lesson learned, a concrete mattress is a fortress But we all can be reborn But none of us will be here in a 150 years The perception that we are immortal is a falsehood We all decompose and be weighted down by a rose The bounty on our heads is a million dollar ransom But we will live through a song There’s beauty in your lies They’re as gentle as my battle cries You didn’t even know about the hundred thousand times I died I don’t know why we are here even when the answer seems so clear After all of this searching, I’ve found out I know nothing But I will sing anyway
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What Happens when you die? Do you just decompose and feed a family full of worms? Or does it just go dark? People cry for a minute, then the just move on A parade for an earner, a tumbleweed for a bum There’s still a hell in heaven and a great unknown With a vacuum and a shovel and pile of dust and bones
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I’m so in love with you No matter what I do, my opinions or my world views… I’m so in love with you When I’m afraid of the weather, I’ll just see us together My pulse will start beating again I’m so in love with you No matter what I do, my opinions or my world views… I’m so in love with you When I’m afraid of the weather, I’ll just strap on the leather and reach down deep in my heart, oh GOD!!!!!

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released May 26, 2017

All music performed and produced by Jimmy James Cutrera except:

Anthony Defabritus – bass and drums on ‘walking corpse’
Patrick Calvert – harp on ‘Unlightened’
Steve Honoshowsky – drums on ‘is this what you hear in your head?’

Mastered by Anthony Defabritus @antFARM studios
Album artwork by Jesse Lee Herdman

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Little Big Toe Dallas, Texas

Led by Jimmy James Cutrera who has been playing some music in some form for a while. LBT likes to incorporate all their influences (which include Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, the Flaming Lips, Soundgarden, Tool, Silverchair, Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, and Mahavishnu Orchestra) in their sound while trying not to be too much of a jerk about it. Thanks for listening. ... more

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