Get Me Out of Here

from Gods and Sods by Too Much Joy

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A song about Evel Knievel's hometown of Butte, Montana.

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GET ME OUT OF HERE

A flood-lit Virgin Mary
Stares down at a mile-wide pit
Half this city fell inside
When they tunneled under it

And everybody here
Lives life upside down
Because everybody’s dreaming
About what’s underground

Right now I might be seeing double
That just makes it twice as clear
I would jump that mile-wide pit
If it would get me out of here

They had all-night restaurants
A hundred years ago
They started digging for silver
When they’d dug up all the gold

In the hometown of Evel
I ordered humorous drinks
Got a lot of great stories
So what if my life stinks

He realized long ago
What just occurred to me
If you can’t live well
Then die fantastically

I’ll douse myself in gasoline
Roll myself to city hall
If I live or if I die
All the people will applaud

Blumenfield/Quirk/Smallens/Vinton
Published by People Suck Music, 1994

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from Gods and Sods, released September 21, 1999
Recorded at Water Music and Pie Studios, 1994

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Too Much Joy Scarsdale, New York

TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight hours on MTV back when they did that sort of thing. ... more

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