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from demo trax by Platzangst

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A demo from a long-delayed and suffering album titled "Music". Really got to get back on that sometime.

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The knobs on my FM receiver are broken and twisted
'Cause each time the goddamn DJ comes on, I kick it
He says "All the hits, all the time, until the end of existence"
But if he ever said the name of that goddamn song, well I missed it

Now, that song's the perfect expression of all my frustrations
But it hasn't even charted on the top one hundred in the nation
Don't know how it got played on some godawful Clear Channel station
All I remember about it is the chorus and a chord progression
(Which went something like)

Subtract the sum of you from me
And what is left is me
Subtract the sum of me from you
And what is left is me

In my Metro, the radio's taking the brunt of my cursing
'Cause it never plays that song and now the shotgun rider's conversing
"Are you sure it was a song? It mighta been just a jingle" (he says)
And no one says jack about an album or even a single

Now no one in my tiny circle of friends has ever heard it
Nobody's downloaded it - nobody has burned it
I'd like a hint - I think by this time I've earned it
I want a name - you'd think by this time I'd've learned it
(You know - that song that goes)

Subtract the sum of you from me
And what is left is me
Subtract the sum of me from you
And what is left is me

That song - it soothes my mind
That song - it might save my life
And I've been searching
And I've been listening
But I've been missing it
I've been missing that song
What is that song?

At the Best Buy, I'm tearing up the shelves of the CD department
And the clerk's got all the musical smarts of my Grandma
She says "I never heard of that, it must not be so great if we don't have it"
And she's cute but she can take her teenage attitude and cram it

Now that song's the current cause of all my distractions
Steering my thoughts, directing each of my actions
Why has this fragment stuck in my head and gone wrong?
How hard could it be to find one stupid pop song?
(One that sounds like)

Subtract the sum of you from me
And what is left is me
Subtract the sum of me from you
And what is left is me

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from demo trax, released January 1, 2009

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Platzangst Muscatine

Platzangst sometimes makes noise, and sometimes makes music. Sometimes a little of both at once. What will come next? Difficult to say. Who likes it? Precious few.

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