Why Don't You Quit Those Hating Ways? b/w Mustard Seed and Lemon Trees

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1.	Why Don't You Quit Those Hating Ways? 02:22	lyrics	buy track
Why don't you quit those hating ways, you know... It'll benefit both night and day A sad song we've played so long its the background of our mind All the time I had a friend who’d gone to seed Huddled in a muddle of negativity What I said didn’t matter My words were scattered Heedlessly. "It's just a waste of time," you said, "to wish for a future." A little knowledge and too much liberty weeds grow wild so there’s nothing there to eat your chatroom is a battle field marshaling disease Whatever place we find to hide ourselves in there’s always someone Anyway it’s all just swim or sink, you know... the world's an ocean of the blackest ink I’ll dip my pen in and then draw a life line to you. Why do I?
2.	Mustard Seed and Lemon Trees 01:54	lyrics	buy track
If anyone can claim the world is mustard seed or lemon tree, then silver line that funnel cloud, the clever ones they can. Everything’s the latest meme or entropy Joseph Bueys and the world just noise to be defined by clever ones who can. They cant about the news today they can’t, but then show instant replay. Cleverness just makes us all feel dumb. When I was young I’d fight to speak make my voice a shining beacon sure my views were cleverest of all. Oh how to make some witty jibe it's tiresome I can’t describe. I measure my success by being clever less and less An analogue half understood like parade rain, or fish on land tired saws abused by every clever one who can the clever ones, they can.

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Side A: Why Don't You Quit Those Hating Ways? (2'22")
Side B: Mustard Seed and Lemon Trees (1'56")

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released July 1, 2021

Composed and performed by Jon Ciliberto

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Monumental Folly Atlanta, Georgia

Monumental Folly rather speaks for itself, yes? Monumental Folly also embraces a sheer willingness to leave things rough at the edges and to carry through improvisation from start to an often much-attenuated finish. Also singing, for which I apologize.

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