College is really helping me write good punk songs.  I hope
you like this one.  It's still kind of a sketch right now,
so it's demo quality.  The solo sucks dick, I know...kinda
like your mom.

Now you finally know what smelled so funny... ;)

The air we breathe is a sick, sad joke
Aerosol fumes and cigarette smoke
My lungs fill with carbon monoxide
It's an industrial nightmare genocide

chorus:
A slow death every day
And I'm sick of it
Trying not to go under
'Cause I'm swimming in shit

Formulas for mass happiness
Attack my brain through the TV set
A packaged good life for me to buy
They say I need it, but that's a lie

A slow death every day...

These hands I shake are not my friends
They'll play along as long as it serves their ends
Plastic smiles and nothing to say
But they don't stop talking anyway

A slow death every day...

Promises that never come true
Why waste my time and vote for you
Manipulate what we hold dear
The cult of submission, the rule of fear

A slow death every day
And I'm sick of it
Trying not to go under
'Cause I'm swimming in shit
I'm swimming in shit
I'm swimming in shit
I'm swimming in shit
I'm swimming in shit
(blah...)

for the gearheads:
-Hamer Echotone Custom guitar
-Crate VFX5112 50 watt tube amp
-Pro Tools Free, on an iMac G4 800Mhz
-Recorded by close miking through built-in mic (shitty, I
know)