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Every Little Bit Helps

from The Great Outdoors by The Napoleon of Crime

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I like to think of this one as a nihilist's love song to the world. Whenever I hear about some superlative -- the loudest band, the hottest pepper, the bleakest landscape -- I feel this tug of desire to experience it, even if doing so would end badly (those peppers aren't fooling around). Discovering where that limit lies reveals a little bit more about the world we live in. Since as far as I can tell it's the only world we get, we might as well revel in it a little.

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I've been deaf for an evening
I've been buried in sound
the air itself was shaking
it coats and it surrounds
now my ears are ringing
I sleep at night with bells
and I don't mind the sacrifice
'cause every little bit helps

I've smothered on the smell of flowers
I've rolled around in the weeds
it was almost too much to handle
it was everything I need
'cause even if I'm lifted up
to the best I've ever felt
drop me back in the lowest ditch
'cause every little bit helps

I am wholly, and without concern
part of this world though this world will burn
I wouldn't ever wanna be born again
I wouldn't ever wanna be born again
I wouldn't ever wanna be born again
I wouldn't ever wanna be born again

I've been burned and wounded
I've been covered in scars
I've been whacked and shattered
I've been broken in shards
take me back to the knuckles I love
tattoo my soul with welts
I wanna feel everything
and every little bit helps

every little bit helps (every little bit)
every little bit helps (every little bit)
every little bit helps (every little bit)
every little bit helps

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from The Great Outdoors, released September 16, 2016
written by David Gassmann

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"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order . . . My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Final Problem" ... more

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