All Good Things
Written by: Michael Turner & Christopher Portugal
[Thes One:]
What am I still doing here?
Alone backstage with the last of the free beer
At home, I'm just a photo on the wall, life goes on
Most times, they don't even call, I stay gone
They said, "We won't buy your music, you'll get paid at the show"
The shitty motel, twenty miles down the road, is so cheap
There's no sleep, bugs in the sheets
There's no soap, there's no hope, music is free
We're waking up with the club smell, the sweat-soaked fitted hat
Yo, why the hell would I even Twitter that?
Direct contact with the invisible man
The same Stan at the merch table, shaking my hands
The young man uploaded my soul on a P2P or Sharebee
I get so exhausted, my thoughts start to scare me
The one-lane highway on the road to the unknown
All I've got is this left, I can't go home
[Double K:]
If you can't make it, then we won't make it
If you can't give it up, then you can't take it
And what's done is done and won't ever come again
Because all good things must come to an end
If we can't make it, then we won't make it
If you can't give it up, then you can't take it
And what's done is done and won't ever come again
Because all good things must come to an end
[Thes One:]
What's become bedroom, auto-tuned Pro Tools on flat screens
With George Clinton redfining what "black" means
Landing Motherships in downtown coliseums
James Brown, the whole world paid to see him
But things are so damn safe, there's no more risk
The ten-second download, listen, erase it from your harddisk
Disposable artists on Facebook with the good look
Except the heroes squashed, branded with AdHook
Everyone's mad shook-up, a bad look
We missed the sunset, we were glued to a MacBook
And so much music, now, and so much gets discarded
I ain't heard a classic record since this whole downloading shit started
Progress with no direction, fans curate the art collection
"Sorry, this section's closed."
Show's over, not enough tickets sold, I suppose
It's not worth it now, sign in the windows goes:
[Double K:]
If we can't make it, then we won't make it
If you can't give it up, then you can't take it
And what's done is done and won't ever come again
Because all good things must come to an end
If we can't make it, then we won't make it
If you can't give it up, then you can't take it
And what's done is done and won't ever come again
Because all good things must come to an end
[Thes One:]
To the man, James Brown (rock, rock on)
To the group, Led Zeppelin (you rock, rock on)
To the legend, Michael Jackson (you rock, rock on)
To the man, Miles Davis (you rock, rock on)
To the Stereolab (we gave you rock, rock on)
To the Radiohead (you know you gotta rock on)
To the Biz Markie (you forever rock on)
To the DJ Premier (yo, you keep rocking on)
And to the Beastie Boys (you always come correct)
To the music man, Beck (gotta keep 'em in check)
To the US Funk Mob (stay doing the job)
To my man, Double K (you know, you rock, rock on)
To my man, Double K (yo, my brother, rock on)
Uh, to my man, Double K (L.A., rock on)
People Under the Stairs (you know, we gotta stay strong)
[Sung sample:]
I hope they shine forever, as long as we're together
I hope they shine forever, as long as we're together
I hope they shine forever, as long as we're together
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Trivia:
- The last section on this track ("I hope they shine forever...") is after Chicken Kebap on the CD, but after All Good Things on the LP.
This track appears on the following releases:
- Carried Away (2009) (LP only) - Om Records (OH 387)
- Free internet download from PL70: http://pl70.net/downloads/all-good-things-thes-one-puts/ (2011)
