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Remember to Smile (version 27​-​05​-​2014)

from The Gamlestan Apartment Recordings (open process edition) by Alex Sharp Cole

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Mix in progress. This is the version of Remember to Smile uploaded on May 27, 2014

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remember to smile


i might lose control once in awhile
but i remember to smile
and i suffer from no denial

your criticism seems so small
It seems like you don't know what matters at all you don't know why
I employ these methods of mine

look when a dream is a bird in a cage
yer birthday wish becomes the twisted gun
hey, it's no fun
to be livin' a life that's a lie, I

never needed to be number one
but I still might need to start a rebellion son
or some kind of fight for the feeling inside

and that's why
I might lose control more than once in awhile my friend
but *at least I*/i still remember to smile
so/just don’t pretend i was never a child (cause I remember that I was a child*)

there was this story i read
when i was a kid
about this man who woke up with his boots still on in his bed
he could not remember what he did

and there was mud on his boots
as he opened the news
to find headlines about strange crimes in the night
this witness heard a shadow laugh and sprint
but now the cops got the mad man's boot prints

so..
believe me it scares the devil out of me too
that my mind might not know things i do
but i hope you don't mind
if i need someone sometimes

heaven knows it's true we mortals
make (*god sized*?) mistakes in this life's got no guarantees
at least we have tonight
to be true to what mind's can't define
that's the blinding white light

for this i might lose control more than once in awhile
and i go with a smile
and i suffer from no denial


(****TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE****!!!)


and when *your*/THE dark towers over *your* human race
when the last trace of storm cloud departs me, fading away
i will stand in the rays of the sun

when the minions of war and wall street are converging below
when the fires begin i will know
that maybe it's time to come home

when the crystal machine at the core/heart of the world
reunites all the boys and the girls like rainbows and sunlight
as their tears crystalize into(become) pearls
well, then I'll walk down the dead main street
and stop the first person i meet
and say thank you for being in the world

in earnest/ tears i'll tell her
i might lose control once in awhile / but i still remember to smile
but *what* i suffer from is no denial, child.

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from The Gamlestan Apartment Recordings (open process edition), released September 11, 2014

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In an interview with Boulder Weekly, Alex Sharp Cole spoke of his plans with New Media artist Will Epps to start a socially conscious artistic movement. This would manifest as the "Submadreamgun" exhibition in San Francisco, which was also the first "official" showing of the music in public... (continued on last page) archive.boulderweekly.com/060503/buzzlead.html ... more

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