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Who Cares What You Believe?

from Madison Lint 2001​-​2004 by Mark Lint

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Recorded for the original Madison Lint demo, September 2001.

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Used to believe that I was pretty damn smart
And I still do, I guess
Though I know now that that has very limited uses
And it doesn’t do much to keep me out of a mess

Used to believe that the be all and end all
Was to think our way out of this idiocy
And while I still know it’s a requisite to not be a Republican
That only gets you just so far

Used to believe that if there isn’t a God
Then there still must be some kind of force under the world
And though that may be I don’t think it matters in the least.
Pretend what you can stomach, hey, whatever gives you peace

Who cares what I believe?
Just shup y’all now, and stagger where you please
Do you believe? I don’t care.

It doesn’t matter what you think or say
When what you do says otherwise
And what most of us are doing is work
And we will work and we will work
And then come home to other work
And the illusion of vacation doesn’t make you less a jerk
And when your leisure’s a reaction to the sucking things upon you
So the time that you kick back in
Is spent kicking back at the rest of the time
What the hell could it possibly matter what you’ve got to say about it
You can talk about the system, but you’re in it, and you are it

So who cares what you believe?
Just shup y’all now, and stagger where you please
What we think we might achieve is most often still diseased
As we define ourselves in terms of something foreign

Used to believe, when I grew up I’d be a god
I honesty did, sort of
When you see yourself expanding as a kid
You can imagine that it’ll keep that pace forever, but it won’t

And though your thoughts get much more nuanced
And you get over stupid fascinations
With what first might seem trippy or divine

You might no longer think you’re clever
When you “break out of the box"
'Cause you can see that you live in it
And your head is full of rocks

Just shup y'all now and leave

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from Madison Lint 2001​-​2004, released November 27, 2015
Mark: vocal, acoustic guitar
Jim Low: electric guitar, harmony
Ken Keeley: bass, harmony
Erik Anderson: keyboard, harmony
Jim Turk: drums

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Mark Lint Madison, Wisconsin

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