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LOVE and FAME

by ACLU Benefit

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g-bm-g-c It's a lonely lonely world (3) g-bm-c when you're shy g-bm-g-c You go out to the show 'cuz you're tired of staying in but you feel like a loser no matter what you're doin'. You're alone at home, or you're alone on the street, 'cuz you just don't know how to find a friend to meet. (chorus) You're surrounded by the best the world has to offer, but you get so depressed with no one to talk to. In Paris for a week, I didn't kiss anyone, 'cuz no one would talk to me. It's so hard to have fun in this lonely, lonely world (3) when you're shy. When you don't know what to do and you think you should just quit, someone shares food with you and you feel such love from it that your heart explodes with hope, as you rise from where you sat. When someone helps you cope, it no longer matters that (chorus). (2)
2.
(G-em-c G-em-c-am) Darling, Please come over I'm tired of sleeping alone cuz these eyes really miss you and my bed is too cold. And darling, my hands won't go wandering, down your body's beautiful form I'll wrap my arms around your stomach so gently and keep you warm cuz darling it's getting so cold now and sometimes all a man needs is a woman to hold him tightly cuz any man, alone, is weak and I promise, that tomorrow, we'll go out all over town but tonight I'm just so tired so come lay down
3.
BS Model 02:30
(G-D) A bullshit model (2) It is time for a bullshit model! (Am-G) AHHHH (3) (D) (repeat all for 45 minutes)
4.
(C-em-am-g) There's a tear in my beer and I don't know where to go to complain, 'cuz my pain can't explain this so (am-f) goddamn the waiters! Goddamn the bar! Goddamn the cleaners! Don't they know what their jobs are? There's a tear in my beer and I don't know what to do. I clink my drink but never think of you. Goddamn the bouncers! Damn the busboys! Goddamn the servers! I wont let them destroy my joy! (whistle solo) There's no more beer, only tears, and the glass is half empty. I can't hide my insides so I guess I'd better speak. You made me sad. You broke my heart. I feel so bad now that we're apart.
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(capo 3) G-em You can't touch me anymore. G-C I am walking out your door. G-Am It took awhile, but now I'm sure. D You can't touch me anymore. You can't hold on to my hands. I am no longer your man. I hope you can understand: From my life you're forever banned. You don't get this body, it's gone, and you have to stop loving me. Don't be sad, just say "so long," and you'd better keep me out of your dreams. (whistling solo) You can't touch me anymore. Even if I get lonely as a leper on the shore, I still wouldn't let you hold me. G-em You can't listen to me sing
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there's no wrong way to beat a drum! just sit there and hit it or listen to the hum! you can hit it hard or you can hit it soft! you can hit it low you can hold it aloft! there's no wrong way to beat a drum! don't listen to your music teacher! there's no wrong way to play a guitar! if it sounds good to you then you'll go far! there's no wrong way to play those notes! if you don't wanna use the strings then don't! there's no wrong way to sing a song! make up the words or sing along! you can hit the notes! or you can make them up! then you got a new song! that's even better stuff! the only thing about music is that you have to like it! if what you play sounds good then you're doing what you should! there's no wrong way to beat a drum! play it like they do or make it hum! you can hit it in 3s you can hit in 4s! you can hit it with no time of course! you can hit the top or you can hit the bottom! just do what sounds good and then you got 'em! there's no wrong way to beat a drum! (4) don't listen to your music teacher!
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(F-C-Em-Am-C) Ooooh Why did I go to college, mom? Why didn't I sing? Why did I re-enroll, not love everything? Why am I a teacher and not a star? Yes I might be a singer but no one knows who we are! Ooooh Mom why did I try to please the people I hate? Why didn't I pursue my determined fate? Was I too scared to do it or did I just not know how? Did I not get the encouragement that'd make me feel allowed? Why didn't I do the one thing that I love so much? Why didn't I keep on reaching for the one important touch? Ooooh
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I’ve played with Adam Green, The Dresden Dolls, and Ian Svenonius, Kevin Mahon, The Gossip, and Jeffrey Lewis, Das Racist, and Bomb! the Music Industry, Herman Dune, Hooray for the Riff Raff, The Handsome Family, Mount Eerie, Jad Fair, David Peel, Calvin Johnson, World/Inferno Friendship Society, and Kimya Dawson Why aren’t I famous? (2) Is it because I’m not shallow don’t care about sound or appearance? The production on my records highlights the lyrics. Or 'cuz I don’t believe in marketing I think it’s evil mental rape forcing you to ruin whats beautiful? Or is it 'cuz I don’t try to appeal to teenagers, the only group for whom music really matters? (Chorus) And yes I wish I had more fans And maybe it’s that i don’t have a band 'cuz morons love rock bands the most. That stuff is so boring I don’t care about those who’d rather hear me play Tool songs in a bar, get drunk and not listen. Then I’d go far. But I won’t compromise and play bullshit that I think is boring, maybe that is it. Or is it 'cuz I'm interested in instantaneous gratification? I don’t care about the stuff you haveta' listen to again. 'Cuz I always figured if I gave you an endless supply of awesome entertainment your love for me would never die. (chorus) Maybe I brought this on myself because I don’t appear to need your help. I look like I'm okay, I’ll tell you the truth, I'd love to be a different way. I love playing songs to 20 people every night but id rather play to packed houses under stage lights. I'd rather quit my job as a professor and just do this all day 'cuz this is what I was born for. But I'm not complaining 'cuz I love performing and entertaining and I make a good living. I get the groupies and some of them love me But (Chorus)
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(this song is in drop-d. pick 4th, 3rd and 2nd strings for verse) (D-G/B-Asus) Life sure had its moments, but now it's time to move on and don't think of it as dying, think of it as graduation, cuz after a certain age, you hope for a living wage, that's all, and living without passion like I am's hardly living at all. (open 4th string Low string: 5-7-12-10) So what's the difference if I go now or in 2020, when I look back at the last 7 years and don't see any reason to stay here? (Low string: 3-0) (D-G/B-Asus) But before I go I'm gonna do some things, and I don't mean like catching up on my reading, 'cuz when you know you're about to die you can get away with anything. There's so much you can do when you're not worried about losing, like insult people a lot more or take things from the corner store, or pee in my hallway, mostly being a jerk is what I have planned for my last days. So maybe you won't mind as much when I go 'cuz I'll be such a bastard that you won't miss me and then my plan will have worked perfectly. (open 4th string Low string: 5-7-12-10) 'Cuz what's the difference if I go now or in 2020? Or maybe 3010 'cuz who knows what the world will be like then? (open 4th string Low string: 0-2-7-5) I think I know. It'll be the same, but a little worse just like every day. And no, I don't think I'm gonna miss anything but drinking. (4th string:12-11-9-12-11-9-7-5-4-7-5-4-2 open 6th string) (open 4th string Low string: 5-7-12-10) So what's the difference if I go now or in 2020 when I look back at the last 7 years and don't see any reason to stay here? (Low string: 3-0)
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(c-f) ooooo wind's blowing light, warm sunshine feather in flight, smell of pine field by the track, no one's allowed i'm on my back, smiling up at clouds taste the air, the bees sing no one will care that i'm sleeping pills fall down my bed of flowers I'll be underground in 10 hours
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(G-Em-D) We Will Hold You When You Fall Down (verse lyrics improvised every time)

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I'll tell you that some of these songs are true and some are just beautiful lies and I don't want you to feel bad but if you do then maybe this album will help you express it so you can go out in the sun and enjoy life again. I love you.

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released October 25, 2013

Everything by Noah except:
Engineered by Simon Katz and Ben Katzman
Co-Produced by Dylan Ewen
Drum and Bass: Chris Geller
Viola: Dan Lay
Backup singers: Nick Vazquez, Mona Maruyama, Steffe Welton, Chris Geller, Stone Filipczak, Nick McMullen, Ben Katzman, Lily Burns
Cover photo of Noah by Ru Britton.

BUFU Records 017.

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