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Childhood (1974-90)
1977 Firsts
1978 Seconds
1985 Cacappella
1986 Eye Beater
1987 Guitarded
1988 Kim 1
1988 Kim 2
1988 Kim 3
1988 Kim 4
1988 Kim 5
1988 Kim 6
1988 Kim 7
1988 Kim 8
1988 Kim 9
1988 Kim 10
1988 Kim 11
1988 Kim 12
1989 Kim 13
1989 Five Dollar Drummer
1989 Wino Three Girls
1990 A Caustic Gutter
1996-1999
1996 NoVaSoCa
1996 Fullerton
1997 Soundtracks
1997 Walk Around
1997 Riding the Greyhound
1999 I Mowed
1999 Simulameous
1999 Yikes
1999 Piano Farte
2000-2008
2001 Marathon
2001 Days Like These
2001 Alcan Back
2001 Sleepy Sloppy
2001 Dad Day Jam
2002 Unfit
2002 The Key of G
2003 Daffy Day
2003 Januweary
2003 Post-Key
2003 Fatiguitar
2003 Oh No
2005 Waiting
2005 Sun Strike
2006 Stinky Room
2006 Schtupid
2007 Coy Pun
2007 Post-Ides
2007 Post-Ideas
2007 Post-Ideals
2007 Warble
2007 Another Same Day
2007 And Another
2007 Bald Ballads
2007 Lunch Broken
2007 Mayo
2007 Mayon
2007 Mayonandon
2007 Mayoff
2007 Juneo
2007 Juneon
2007 Juneonandon
2007 Two Song Rule
2007 Cavy Fury
2007 Infinity Daze
2007 Fall Start
2007 False Tart
2007 Fall End
2008 New Ear
2008 Decadend

Track List

# title lyrics time download listen started recorded rating
1 Introducing 2007 lyrics 0:45 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
2 Coy Pun lyrics 1:09 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
3 Lost Druid lyrics 1:11 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
4 Stick E Intro lyrics 0:11 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
5 Bad Chomping lyrics 1:51 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
6 Rusty Wondering lyrics 5:04 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
7 Boing lyrics 0:25 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
8 Persistent Enough lyrics 7:23 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
9 Bad Chopping - 2:05 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
10 In the Buff lyrics 10:52 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
11 Glassnore lyrics 7:45 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
12 Do Not Play lyrics 0:38 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
13 Causing Pain lyrics 0:23 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
14 Supercheesy lyrics 1:04 download listen locally - 2007-01-01
15 Hard to Like lyrics 1:20 download listen locally - 2007-02-14
16 Slog lyrics 15:15 download listen locally - 2007-02-28
17 Safesurfer lyrics 6:11 download listen locally - 2007-03-13
18 Shut Off the Tape lyrics 12:03 download listen locally - 2007-03-14
19 Tardation lyrics 0:23 download listen locally - 2007-03-14
Total 75:58 play all locally album rating:

Notes

My resolution for 2007 was to get my Trex site up and running. I wanted to start the year off with a clear gesture of working towards that goal. First I played a couple of songs on guitar, to finish the previous Trex tape. After that, I jogged to a store, bought tapes, and the headed to a piano practice room at the nearby college and banged out these tunes.

The last few songs are from a couple months later, and are all featuring guitar. They're very sloppy and rough, but with occasional catchy bits. This is pretty much par for 2007, so be prepared for lots more like this.

The tape was cheap and 120 minutes long, so there's occasional warbling. Sorry. You'll hear a lot worse noises than warbling during the 2007 tapes. So tighten your seatbelts and grab your vomit bags... The 2007 Trex plane is taking off!

Songs

Introducing 2007

Straightforward introduction.

Lyrics to "Introducing 2007":

today is the 1st of january 2007
i haven't touched the guitar in ages
you basically hear every time i touch the guitar
it goes on this tape
um, basically i'm just trying to eat this tape up
because i need to get some more blank tapes
and i don't know where the rest of the blank tapes are

so what i'm gonna do
i'm gonna play for you a complete improvisation
i have no idea what i'm gonna play for you
but i'm gonna play for you
'cause that's the tripecac spirit
little bit of uncertainty
lot of enthusiasm
and a tad bit of boredom
the enthusiasm is on my part
the boredom is on your part
so here we go
  

Coy Pun

Making fun of Julian Cope, particularly the bad sound quality of his Jehovahkill reissue.

Lyrics to "Coy Pun":

yes it's the same old chords
or the same old lack of chords
no progression
pun intended
eat your heart out, julian cope

i'm a julian cope clone
i'm gonna sell this music for $20 per cd
and i'm gonna master it really pathetically
and i'm gonna give it
a coy pun in the title
a coy pun in the title
a coy pun in the title
'cause i am entitled
to coy puns
  

Lost Druid

More making fun of Julian Cope, this time his latest Brain Donor release.

Lyrics to "Lost Druid":

i'm staring up at the mysterious trees
another god is in diguise
and i am ascending
i am glowing, i am julian cope

i'll sell my little refrigerator art cds for 20 bucks a pop
and hope you forget when i once made stuff that rocked

i'll master the old reissues really pathetically
and if you complain i'll ignore you
'cause i'm a has-been coperson
  

Stick E Intro

Talking about a sticky note (an E).

Lyrics to "Stick E Intro":

january 1 2007
i cannot play this note because it sticks
i'm not doing anything; it just keeps sticking
so i cannot play e
i gotta stay away from the chords that contain an e
  

Bad Chomping

Simple lyrics, dumb music. The warbling of the tape is not much fun either.

Lyrics to "Bad Chomping":

gotta stay away from the chords that contain an e
i gotta stay away from the chords that contain an e

it's called the chomping song

and i chomp all day long
barely hear the song
chomp all day long
barely hear the song

but there's not much to hear anyway

this sounds so bad i know it
i don't know how to salvage it
this sounds so bad i know it
this sounds so, this sounds so bad

this sounds so bad i don't know how to salvage it
  

Rusty Wondering

Total improv. It's very rough, with sloppy timing galore. It edited it heavily, but it's still pretty awful in my book. So awful that I wish it were in someone else's book.

Lyrics to "Rusty Wondering":

oh man that was horrible
if you think that was bad
this next one
there's no promise that it will be any better
'cause i'm just making this stuff up
as if you couldn't tell

can you smell the rust under my fingernails
can you smell the rust under my fingernails

can you feel the rust under my synapses
can you smell the rust under my synapses

gotta rusty rusty eardrum
gotta rusty rusty but i continue to eardrum
case in point

gotta rusty rusty eardrum
but that does not stopping me from drumming drumming

in case you're wondering
i haven't played piano in about a month
in case you're wondering
it's been so long since i've touched this thing
that i do not know what to do with it

in case you're wondering
i haven't given trex much thought
in case you're wondering
i don't know what i'm doing right now

there's nothing here travis; i mean i'll--

it's 3:30; i'm not going anywhere
first day of the year has me feeling 
like i'm not going anywhere
  

Boing

The secret to my song crafting.

Lyrics to "Boing":

gotta slow down with the left hand
the right hand's not too bad
but with the keyboard
you never really have to play with the left hand
you never really have to leave the right hand
you can always just do boing boing boing boing boing
and then transpose every once in a while to
and then  that gets really bad
and then you copy a million times and call that a song
  

Persistent Enough

This attempt at making something melodic ends up sound cheesy. Don't they all? This one has a decent melody at least. Unfortunately, the tape warble r eally sucks the life out of this song at points.

Lyrics to "Persistent Enough":

gotta slow down the left hand 
or i will be tired really soon

gotta slow down the left hand 
or i will be really tired really soon
oh god

  [scat]
  
that's not a very good transition
that is not really good

that is sloppy
that's a sloppy transition
that is not very good

what's this
this is clueless chord
don't know what i'm chord

what the, what's this
i shouldn't go to c right there
well i don't know what i'm doing

i should actually end up with a f major like this
and now it will resolve better

that's not bad

that's not very good

just doesn't sound right
just doesn't sound right
i can play all night
it'll probably never sound right

  [scat]
  
who's gonna win
my incompetence or my persistence?

who's gonna win 
my incompetence or

will i be persistent enough
to give the song a nice melody

will i be persistent enough
to give the song a nice chorus

will i be persistent enough
to give [scat]

  [scat]

will i be persistent enough
to give the song a nice line

oh will i be persistent enough
to beat the song into shape

oh will i be tough enough
to beat the song into shape

oh will i be persistent enough
to whip the shong into shape

oh will i be persistent enough

just get a good melody

  [scat]
  
oh will i be persistent enough
to get a song out of this
 
oh will i be persistent enough
to get a song out of this   

  [scat]

f f f f f
b flat b flat b flat
c c c c
e flat 
f
now a flat
now f major
get it?

you think something big's coming up?
well, i'm gonna disappoint you

  

Bad Chopping

This was a very long, choppy, and sloppy endurance test. I whittled it down to the most stomachable couple of minutes.

It we call it "trance", does that excuse the lack of melody? If we call it "Trex", does that excuse the lack of polish?

In the Buff

I was making fun of my playing and the cheap tape. The music is repetitive and dull. The singing is horrid.

After a couple minutes it gets more interesting. Unfortunately, I got a stupid phrase stuck in my head. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Lyrics to "In the Buff":

wasting an hour 
on a bad tape
playing isn't much better
than the quality of the tape

maxell ur
position iec
type 1 normal
very crappy

maxell ur
cheap 3 bucks
well more like 4
for this bad tape

i paid about $4 actually for 2 tapes
about 120 minutes on each
i say about because 
usually tapes give you more than advertised about
so if you get a 90 minute tape 
you usually get about 95 or 91
??? w s u c k

travis isn't for everybody
travis isn't for everyone
trex isn't always excited
trex is almost never fun

trex is not for everybody
trex is not for everyone
trex is rarely entertaining
and never never never never never fun

trex is never never never never never fun
trex is never never never never never fun
it is never easy to make them
it's not easy to listen to this horrible ???
see i can't even sustain a cool groove for much than
i can't even sustain proper grammar for than uh

trex is not for everybody
trex is not for everyone
trex is rarely enlightening
and trex is never ever fun

trex is hard to create
trex is hard to digest
trex is not on a web page
it deserves a lot kess

but i got lots of cds of trex
lots and lots of cds of trex
and the ??? is on those cds of trex

those that say that tripecac
is better than this musically
it's the same; i'm creating both
haphazardly

the difference is the editing
with tripecac i can fix my mistakes
trex is all about spontaneity
it's a live take

everything is a live take
it's a live take
full of mistakes

it's a live take
full of mistakes
it's a live take
full of mistakes

trex is about mistakes
happy mistakes
trex benefits from mistakes
tripecac is more calculating
but not much actually
the difference is all in the thing that i call the editing

trex will not get polished
it will always be a little rough
so my ideas are kinda catchy
it's like a dude in the buff

if you're into dudes
i'm not really into dudes
i'm actually
i actually detest the idea of dudes in the buff
what am i saying
that was a mistake, wasn't it
to say anything about dudes in the buff
i mean, come on
what a horrible image to put inside my head and your heads

yuck, forget about the dudes in the buff
yuck, forget about those dudes in the buff
yuck, forget about the dudes in the buff
that's enough travis, i've said enough

trex is never gonna be polished
it's always gonna be a little rough
trex is always gonna be ugly
just like the dudes in the buff

trex is never gonna be really polished
it's always gonna be a little rough
trex is a little horrendous
just like the thought of dudes in the buff

gross, throw up about dudes in the buff
yuck yuck yuck i hate the dudes in the buff
who gave that image the dudes in the buff
that's nasty, it's really really rough

what is trex you might be wondering
how do you spell it
t r e x is what i do
but you don't have to copy that

it stands for travis' experimentals
and travis' exercises
it also stands for the treks i take
every once in a while

in the car, i sneak into the piano practice room
when ??? i travelling
like i'm doing right now
i'm not actually travelling
just running a bunch of errands
but i slipped into the pracice room at western
i told you this was gonna be rough
i told you this was gonna be really rough
that's what trex is
it's not diamonds in the rough
it's lumps of coal in rough
like dudes in the buff

you're never gonna get dude in the buff appealing to me
i'm sorry

you're never gonna entice me with dudes in the buff
yuck, that makes me want to throw up
get away with your ideas
of naked dudes, that's just disgusting

who came up with that anyway?
i don't know
i think is just rhymed with something i was doing
i wish i could just get rid of that
see i'm losing the rhythm a bit
i'll get it back
here we go

  [scat]
  
today i did a lot of errands
i bought some gloves and some bowls
also some pencils
the kind that you don't have to sharpen

but they're called mechanical pencils
i don't know why i had trouble remembering that
oh well

and after i bought that stuff
i came to the college
went down in the piano practice room
and got out the tape recorder

made a racket in 
one of the empty practice rooms
most of the students are home on break
it's nice having a little room
to groove
  

Glassnore

This is basically a bunch of fast, meandering arpeggios. I think I was kinda inspired by Philip Glass. Of course, this is much slopping and boring-er.

After a couple minutes, it gets more rhythmic (and cheesy). There's a decent solo, which becomes an attempt at a repeating melody. It's okay, if you're into new-agey piano snoozefests.

There's a slight mystery here: how did I hit that low note? I only have 2 hands, and not much speed.

A bad dose of tape warble ruins some of the tranciness.

Lyrics to "Glassnore":

ok i've only got about 5 minutes left
thank god  
  

Do Not Play

An idea which collapsed due to my manual ineptitude.

Lyrics to "Do Not Play":

do not play anything old
do not play anything old
do not play anything old
it's a new year after all

  [repeat]

i can't play that fast  
  

Causing Pain

Horrible dirge.

Lyrics to "Causing Pain":

this is just causing pain to everyone  
why do i keep up why do you yawn
causing pain to everyone  
there's no hope for this side 1
  

Supercheesy

Cheesy. Supercheesy. Appropriate end to the side.

Lyrics to "Supercheesy":

that is what i call supercheesy
this is what i call superlame
this is what i call supercheesy
what a bad way to end the game

this is what i call supercheesy
this is what i call superlame
this is what i call supercheesy
what a bad way to end the game

  [repeat]

what a bad way to end the game
what a bad way to end the game
what a bad way to end the game
what a bad way to end the game

what a bad way to end the game
what a bad way to end the game

  [scat]
  

Hard to Like

A bit hyper on Valentine's Day. It's kinda annoying, kinda funny, and crude at the end.

Lyrics to "Hard to Like":

valentine's day 2007
that means 14th of february 2002, huh
2004, huh
2032, yes that's right

it's hard to like someone who thinks he's funny
some people's funny just ain't on the money
i hate it when their mouth gets runny
but you call 'em on it and you go calling to mommy

i gotta say that again

it's hard to like people who think they're funny
'cause some people's funny just ain't on the money

ah shoot, what was the next bit?
i forget, i forget, i i'm retarded
try it again

it's hard to like someone who thinks he's funny
some people's funny just ain't on the money
personally i think their mouth's just runny
and you call 'em on it and they go calling to mommy

shoot
i gotta gosh darn do it again 'cause, 'cause i messed up

it's hard to like someone who thinks he's funny
some people's funny just ain't on the money
i hate it when their mouth gets runny
but you call 'em on it and you go calling to mommy

that's better
do i sound like a hick
do i sound like a hick
am i a hick
hi my name is alabama jones morgenfield
my name is rhyme with my sister's h----
  

Slog

This epic, sloppy jam is built on a very predictable chord progression. The interesting part is the lyrics, which are mostly about what I was doing at work that day. The term "slog" means "song blog".

Lyrics to "Slog":

all right today is um
what is today
today is august the 42nd of 1002
no, it's uh, last day of february 2007
giovanna took her regulation exam today
might be her last exam
we won't know until she gets her results
2007 02 28
i leave for a ski trip in about 3 days
i haven't touched the guitar since the last tape

a little little little bit rusty
i'm a little little little bit rusty
i'm a little little little bit rusty
my guitar playing is crusty

not that it ever was trusty
not that the guitar is a real musty
my brain is dusty

[scat]

this ain't goin' on trex
trex is too good for this

this ain't goin' on trex
trex is too outstanding for this

oh yeah
way to mess it up
only i can mess up such a simple guitar riff
and this is e by the way
if you couldn't guess
my one and favorite note on the guitar is e
that's why they call me travis e
and it's why i play so sloppy
and kind of croppy
ok that's really stupie

and today we launched
some m------ pages
marketing pages
for the first time hosted by us
rather than m------.com
we were scheduled to launch at noon
i was a bit behind
because of application errors
with dreamweaver
with dreamriver
with dreammudder?
so it came upon 12
and i wasn't quite ready
i said uh, bruce i'm getting dreamweaver bugs
i guess i'll try to upload manaually
he said should we alert m------
that we're a bit behind
i said well i might be able to upload everything in about 3 minutes
but there might be some bugs
so i commenced to upload
what files i had
took me about 15 minutes
before everything looked ok
some images were missing
some css failed to load
dreamweaver kept messing it up
dreamweaver kept messing it up
dreamweaver kept messing it up
dreamweaver messes up like i play guitar
dreamweaver is missing with my guitar
oh god

my guitar is not necessarily the weak link
maybe it's my singing voice
i told you this ain't going on trex
it better not go on trex
this ain't good enough for trex
keep this, keep this, keep this off of off of off of trex
keep this off of trex
keep this off of trex
keep this off of trex
'cause it doesn't belong anywhere near a computer
just keep it on the analog
this is really messy messy
without editing this is useless
it's frankly pointless
frank doesn't have a point
but this song kinda did
until i got sidetracked
about my bad playing
and so on with the story
kinda like a musical blog
except this one's not about music
it's a song about blogging
well kinda
more like a song that's a journal entry
really kinda pointless if you ask me
maybe this is something that
it's something new
it's called a slog
ok

need to continue with the story
where was i
ok i remember now
so here it was 12:15
finally everything was uploaded
i breathed a sigh of relief
bruce said at 12:30 we had an order
he was happy; it meant the site wasn't dead
it mean things were still ok
i hadn't completely f'ed it up
we could go on with our day
but then we looked at m------'s site
and we saw something horrid
if you thought my css was bad
m------'s wasn't even loading
no no no m-----'s site was f'ed up
and as of 3:00
it still doesn't have an html or a head tag
still get java servlets excepts
still doesn't load the css
and still doesn't link to our site
at first i just laughed and i said to myself
if i thought i was bad by being 15 minutes late
here it is 3 hours later m-----'s site just just does not load
does not load
m-----'s site belongs in the commode
it does not load
it does not load

yeah at first i kind of felt relieved by the fact
that m-----'s site was far worse than ours
but then i started realizing that
if m----- can't fix their site
they can't send people to us
and we can't make any sales
that's not good
so at first there was that instinct to be individualistically
uh whatever you call it
uh it's a individual
what's the word for it
i'm trying to remember the word
accountable
individual accountability was my initial concern
as long as my stuff is okay, the world was roses
then came communal accountability
where it's not just my piece of the puzzle that matters
if m----- can't do their piece
we can't make sales
and that means i cannot more afford
more tapes on which to put
these awesome, awesome guitar epics
so, to sum this up, 'cause i really do need to sum this up
um
i guess this is the bridge
oh god, what a horrid song
i should not digitize this

note to self: i should not digitize this
note to self: this is not worth digitizing
note to self: stay away from the digitizing machine
note to self: do not get any ideas about digitizing this

note to self: keep away from cooledit
note to self: keep away from 4 track
note to self: keep away from sonar
just keep this on the on the analog

note to self: do not digitize this
note to self: don't put in computer
note to self: do not put on the web site
note to self: just let this mother die

note to self: let the mother die
note to self: just let the mother die
note to self: no one is gonna cry
note to self: if you let the mother die

communal accountability
communal accountability
communal accountability
that is now what really matters to me

communal

[scat]

note to self: do not put on computer

ok i gotta go back to work
gotta see if m----- fixed their web site
kinda hope they did
so i can feel better about the lack of sales

feel better about the future
feel better about the finances
feel better about community
communal accountability

communal accountability [scat]

come on, all you strings
get together
play together
come on all you notes

join a nice little company
you gotta cooperate
you 6 little strings

6 little things
6 little strings
gotta keep in time
gotta play all the time
all the time
all the time

[scat]

this is the sound of m-----'s css
hi, i'm m-----
do you want to look at my css
hi, i'm a m-----
do you want to look at my css

this is a good way to get blisters you know
this is a good way to get blisters you know
???

i think i'm developing some blisters
and i think that's gonna prevent from typing accurate css

blaa blaa
blaa blaa
  

Safesurfer

This is my intentionally horrendous cover version of Julian Cope's "Safesurfer". It's definitely not going on Interpreters! It doesn't even try to get the music right.

The lyrics are the end are improvised, and kinda funny!

Lyrics to "Safesurfer":

today is 13th of march 2007

you don't have to be afraid love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling
you don't have to be afraid love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling

  [repeat many times]

you don't have to be afraid love
you don't have to be afraid

you don't have to be afraid love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling
you don't have to be afraid love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling

  [repeat many times]

you don't have to be afraid love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling
i like to make the lovey
like i play the guitarling

you don't have to be a ??? love
'cause i'm a safesurfer darling
i play the guitar
like i make love to my darling

you don't have to make love to me
to get a disease
you don't have to make love to my guitar
to feel weak at the knees

you don't have to be afraid lovey
to get the safesurfer darling
you don't have to be afraid of the guitar
to feel the safesurfer yawning

you don't have to be afraid lovey
to be afraid of the darling
you don't have to be a guitar
to be abused by the safesurfer

you don't have to be a safesurfer
to be afraid of the darling
and i like to play the guitar
like a safe darling surfer

you don't have to be afraid love
i'm a safesurfer darling
safesurfer darling yeah
you can twust me
you can twust me
i'm so skillful
i will surfer you so skillfully
so skillfully will i surf you

you don't have to be afraid lovey
i will surf you so skillfully
like i play the guitar
yes i will surf you with my guitar

i will surf you so skillfully
you will have no need to have any fear
you have no need to do anything other than flatulate every once in a while
as i surf you, i will surf you, surf you, surf you, surf you

ok i gotta go now, it's beyond my curfew
ha
  

Shut Off the Tape

Another long improv. Some parts are kinda catchy, but as a whole, the thing is too rambly and messy to be worth editing. So you're getting it in its raw form, which will probably be the trend for most of the songs from 2007.

Lyrics to "Shut Off the Tape":

ok next day, 14 march 2007
another complete improvisation on the guitar
i gotta pick a title for it
i gotta pick a sound

gotta pick a sound
that one's horrible

this ain't going on no stinking tape
this ain't going on no stinking tape

put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape

put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape
put down the mic

put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape
put down the mic

this ain't going on no stinking tape
this ain't going on no stinking tape
this ain't going on no stinking tape
come on hit the good notes
hit the good notes
stop hitting the bad notes
hit the good notes

put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape
put down the mic

put down the tape
put down the mic
shut off the tape
put down the mic

this ain't going on no stinking tape
oh that's horrible, let's try it again
this ain't going on no stinking tape
oh it's even worse

this ain't going on no stinking tape
there that's better
this ain't going on no stinking tape

put down the tape
put down the mic
put down the tape
put down the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

this ain't going on no stinking tape
this ain't going on no stinking tape
oh god

put down the tape
put down the mic
???
put down the mic

oh yeah

oh god
if i ever need an edit function on the guitar
this is the time
1 2 3 4

put down the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

this, this ain't going on no stinking tape
seems like an ear ache
this ain't going on no stinking tape
yet another ear ache

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

why must you always document everything
why must you keep every bad thing
why must you hoard everything
why cannot you just play and sing at the same thing boy

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

travis, cut off the tape
shut off the mic
travis, cut off the tape
shut off the mic

when are you gonna learn to play the guitar
your little improvisations are not gonna get you very far
your singing voice it just keeps getting worse
you know this is pretty perverse

so cut off the tape
shut off the mic
cut off the tape
put down the mic

travis, cut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

why must you persist in playing your pathetic, pathetic parts
why must you elicit these musical farts
why must you keep on torturing us
everybody knows that trex sucks

yeah, cut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

cut off the tape, travis
shut off the mic
cut off the tape

this is kinda like
the trex theme song
the trex theme song

the trex theme song
this is the trex theme song
this is the trex theme song
this is the trex theme song

everybody sing along

everybody sing along
everybody sing along
everybody sing along
oh everybody sing along

y'all know the lyrics
not a whole lot of guesswork or remembering to do
it's just like i'm playing e and g over and over again
if i can do this, you can sing along

i'm gonna hit the chorus again
everyone's gonna explode into the chorus again
everyone being travis
because i'm the only one who ever listens to this stuff

travis is gonna explode into the chorus again
travis is the audience; he's gonna explode into the chorus again
any time now, because my hand is getting tired
believe it or not, e and g can be tiring

speaking of retiring
i'm thinking of retiring
but not from trex
just from this progression
ok 1 2 ready go
shoot i missed it
i missed it
oh i'm killing the horse
i'm pounding it into the ground
i am just smashing that horse into the dust
smashing that horse into the dust
smashing the horse into the dust

while my composition skills rust
smashing the horse into the dust
smashing the horse into the dust
meanwhile my composition skills rust

repeating things enough times until they seem witty
that's my strategy
repeat things enough times until i feel witty
that's my way to do it

i see a shadow of a fly on the window
fly's outside, i'm wondering why he's on the window
is he trying to get at the sweet sweet vibrations within
is he trying to get at the sweet sweet music within

is he trying to get at the sweet sweet experience within
is that fly a tripecac fan
is that fly the only other tripecac fan besides me and giovanna

hey little fly, where are you going
i've got a cd to sell ya

sweet sweet music within
sweet sweet music within
there's some sweet sweet music within
there is some sweet sweet sweet wait wait wait wait

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

travis, why don't you just call it a day
my ear is buzzing anyway
i've got some work to do
and i'm sure you have something else to do 
other than listen to me sing
1 2 3 4

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

this is the trex theme song
i'm know i'm playing it wrong
i'm know i'm singing it wrong
i'm know i'm doing it wrong

shut off the tape
shut off the mic
shut off the tape
shut off the mic

shut off the tape
shut off the mic

that was horrible
what a waste of tape
  

Tardation

Dumb vocal idea.

Lyrics to "Tardation":

if you have to call somebody a funny name
you better funny it like this

my name is tardation tardation
will you feed me some good carnations
i am from the tardation nation
i am just a retard

hmm
good one trav
same day