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Mistakes

by T.C. McManus

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    All online profits from T.C. McManus' second album, Mistakes (save the 15 percent that Bandcamp keeps) will go to the Somaly Mam Foundation, a Cambodia-based organization dedicated to fighting sex trafficking around the world.

    So T.C. McManus humbly suggests the price of ten dollars for the album.

    Unless you like sex trafficking. You don't like sex trafficking... do you?
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The government's conspiring. You're crying and perspiring. The girl you were admiring just makes you mad Some may call it heresy, but there's no heresy here i see, just a government conspiracy to make you sad The CIA and FBI against an average normal guy, they're sifting through your mail supply and misconstrue The Schengen zone and the EU too, were recently recruited to the government conspiracy to make you cry. The FCC and INS outlaw the things that you love best, and make sure your relationships will go awry But they have your best interest at heart, I know because I am apart of the government conspiracy to make you blue. So Don't you lie and say to me that thing's aren't going bad. There's a government conspiracy to make you sad. And when your homeless on the street, with only frozen tears to eat, and you feel much less than incomplete, and hopelessly depressed you'll wish you could afford a drink, a car a gun a noose a shrink, and then you'll stop and smile and think the government knows best So don't you lie and say to me that thing's aren't going bad. There's a government conspiracy to make you sad.
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Eat em jack wins every brawl his strong left hook will dislocate your jaw He leave you bloody and enthralled You can find him at the suicide hall The social ladder quickly climbed To no surprise he leads a life a crime And one thing many might find queer his favorite dish is human ear Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up eat em up Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up eat em up Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack he'll rob and he'll leave you for dead and eat your ear right off your head It hurts like hell but what's worse is The sound of being digested The grind of teeth is thunderous a chew is hardly a caress but even more hellacious is descending his esophagus the discord of the the mucosa the msucularnis externa provides a dissonant attack your ear heads down to the stomach the acid stings like sonic pain your hand is on your head in vain But the deadly, most hellacious sound is hearing your self leave his bowels Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up eat em up Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack Eat em up eat em up, eat em up eat em up Eat em up eat em up, eat em up jack
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Sorry about the last time you came to my house I think i thought i thought you were somebody else I'm really not sure just why I was thinking about her Now the taste of your blood is coming right out of your mouth in a downpour I made a mistake (3x) but I never make the same mistake more than once Sorry about the time i snuck into your house, i think that i thought i was somebody else Someone allowed to be closer to you, when you whispered i wasn't, what was i to do? Now you're down on the floor, with blood coming out of your mouth onto the floors and doors of your house. I made a mistake, of that there's no doubt, I just hope you learned how to control your mouth and now I made a mistake (3x) and I never make the same mistake less than twice I made a mistake (3x) and I always make the same mistake again
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I don't know why my true love left me for another the prior night you couldn't pry her from my arms Oh Rivka or Rivka oh how the the world could she leave me? I looked where she was, all i could see is bad beer Oh that bad beer, bad beer. Chased away my dearest darling Oh that bad beer, bad beer. Bring back my Rivka to me. With one bad beer, I might get a little bit frisky But with too much bad beer, and Rivka was sporting black eyes It's the same old story, with vodka sambuca or whiskey It's all bad beer when rivka is not by my side Oh that bad beer, bad beer. Chased away my dearest darling Oh that bad beer, bad beer. Bring back my Rivka to me. I can't control my senses, I suppose that you can say that I am senseless I don't know what right and wrong is And Ironically all that I want is That fucking bad beer, bad beer. Chased away my dearest darling Oh that bad beer, bad beer. Bring back my Rivka to me. Oh that bad beer Oh that bad beer My true love is gone and I wish i could vomit you out of my liver my life and my past Bad beer Oh that bad beer I'll go to the docks where the surf is like knives, jump in and I'll be free from you at last Bad beer.
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The European union is a magical land With legal principles that nobody understands The formed a single country out of what was 25 So someone from france can move to slovakia, and have a happy life But if you're not from Europe, you'll be mightily fucked Try to get a job in here and you'll be out of luck. Schengen is named after a small Luxembourger town so let's get on a student agency bus and fucking burn it down! Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Don't call my girl an illegal immigrant She went to the foreign police to get a work permit They took a look at her pass port and a day in jail she spent So don't call my girl an illegal immigrant Instead, let's Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) S C H E N G E N they made it hard to spell so we can't look it up on the internet as well If you're from the USA, abandon all your hopes. Or like cheech and chong lets go the schengen and burn it up it smoke Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Sure it may be true that some innocents will die But we'd be thought of as weak if a single soul survives So murder all the women and the children and the men and just for fun let's build it back up and burn it down again Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) yo, I'm walkin down your street an illegal immigrant coz money to the man isn't money well spent and you know damn right i get high everyday got a girl in every port, that's how the sailor man play and helpin other immigrants across the border breakin all your laws, disobeyin all your orders sellin lots of drugs and rejecting your whores and when i pull out my guitar you know i'm ready for war. but first let's Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen) Let's go to luxembourg (and burn down schengen)
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Everybody speaks a language I don't understand I must be in a foreign land. I contemplate just how the choice was grand But then they shove a piece of paper in my hand and they said Fill out the proper form with the proper information Admit chid abuse is the cause of your frustration Prove that you've been questioning your sexual orientation And then I Banged my head against the wall I fulfill my obligations earnestly But they receive my begging for help sternestly I listen in the embassay d'rpressedly So I banged my head against the wall and they said Fill out form b2 and attach to form b But not before you've finished forms A one to three fax us your most traumatizing memories And then I I banged my head against the wall till i bled now I'm dead I banged my head against the wall till i bled now I'm dead Andthrough my lifeless eyes And i see no surprise They're getting out form 14B They hover over me They're filling out blank 10, with a reference to 9A They can't remove my body until they're finished with form J they're in schengen so they gotta put the month down before the day And then They banged their heads against the wall till they bled, now they're dead They banged their heads against the wall till they bled, now they're dead Then we smell the brimstone smell, we must have gone to hell I look out across the red, and filled with such dread I'm greeted by the receptionist, a lass named elozia says if you wanna live in hell you gotta get a visa I'd need a pile of paperwork that rival parts of giza I'm an illegal immigrant in hell, I bid you all farewell I'm an illegal immigrant in hell, maybe one day I'll get expelled I banged my head against the wall till i bled now I'm dead I banged my head against the wall till i bled now I'm dead
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On Mistakes, T.C. uses the following instruments, in order of appearance:

classical guitar, accordion, xaphoon, acoustic guitar, angkuouch, electric guitar, piano, toy piano, beatbox, gwaengeori, cutlery flute, melodica, bamboo flute


I will donate money to Somaly Mam's foundation every few months, so I'll have a big donation, rather than doing about 100 five or ten-dollar transfers.

I haven't sent them a message about this fundraiser, but i will in the next few days.



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released December 25, 2010

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