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| Funeral Genius |
A Funeral Genius is someone who is a genius at being negative, a Debbie downer, an uber-pessimist, who obsessively looks at the negative side of things, is morbid thinking of death all the time thereby forgetting to live.
A Funeral Genius is a metaphor for the negativity and self-doubt that creeps into our lives as we age and our dreams face the ever present danger of fading away.
This is the most literally titled song on the album which introduces the Funeral Genius and expresses the effect the Funeral Genius’s pessimism has on the protagonist/heroine, who despite the Funeral Genius’s rampant and unrelenting negativity stays strong, rebellious and optimistic about life.
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From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
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| I Wanna Know What I Don't Know |
Our heroine is an optimist despite the Funeral Genius in her life who won’t listen to her optimism. She is happy and therefore has nothing to offer the Funeral Genius because the Funeral Genius can’t appreciate her optimism. She is going down that road, she wants to live, to know what she doesn’t know, to learn. She is curious about life instead of death. Wherever the road takes her, whatever comes her way, she’s open to it, not closed off like the Funeral Genius, enclosed in a spiritless prison of his own devising. In the end our heroine leaves the Funeral Genius because she doesn’t want to waste another day being affected by his negativity.
Andrea’s side note: the lyrics “I’m going down that road, where it goes nobody knows” is a nod to a Portrait of Jennie (a film my dad is very taken with) – there is a song in there with the lyric – “Where I came from nobody knows, and where I am going everyone goes.”
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
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and iTunes
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| Belong Here |
Our heroine, having extricated herself from the Funeral Genius’s pernicious clutches suffers post traumatically from his negative influence on her. She acknowledges she’s made mistakes, more wrongs than she can ever right, but still wants to belong here, to belong to something, to someone, to an idea, to something she can hold onto. She’s strong not apathetic yet doubt begins to creep in as the Funeral Genius’s voice gains intensity in her mind and her plea to belong here gets more desperate. She fights the negative voice in her head and in the end shouts over and over that she does indeed want to belong here. Who will write the songs yeah? She will write the songs yeah! Who wants to belong here? She wants to belong here!
Life’s tough but she carries on, she wants to belong not fade away, to write songs, to live, to laugh, to create and by deciding to belong here she finally feels contentment, she’s at peace and able to sleep a restful sleep, something she hasn’t had in years.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
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| Bottle of Beauty |
The villain isn’t done with our heroine yet, not by a long shot. He didn’t become a Funeral Genius overnight. He’s been developing his negative worldview from childhood. He comes back to haunt her, to tell her that everybody wants a bottle of beauty, wants to taste so sweet, wants the good life, to be beautiful, to be happy. He tries to convince her that it’s all just a pack of lies, seductive yet poisonous. That people get their happiness through plastic surgery and quick dime store fixes, that most people have petrified souls and he’ll keep his whole thank you very much. But our heroine wants happiness in the deepest sense not the shallow soulless plastic exterior sense. The Funeral Genius can’t understand this, can’t appreciate it for all he sees is what he wants to see; the sleazy neon peep show, the cancer candy, the poison dye.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
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and iTunes
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| I Can't Tell You to Stay |
The villain pushes on after planting seeds of doubt in our heroine’s mind. Now he plays with her, telling her he can’t tell her to stay while really laying the guilt on thick that she’s leaving him, abandoning him. But our heroine holds strong, tells him she’s going away, that he won’t see her tomorrow or today. Then the guilt hits her and she backpedals, says she might stay if he says something kind to her, shows her some light, instead of all his darkness.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639 |
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| America Where Are You |
Our heroine starts to falter, to delve deeper into the negative. She starts thinking of America, of how the poor keep getting poorer while the rich get richer, how we keep getting into war after war because of greedy Politicians and Industrialists wanting their piece of the pie at any cost (even the madness and death of their own country). She blames herself for not being more proactive, more informed so she can do more to make this world and this country a better place for her brothers and sisters and even the little furry creatures who have souls as well. But who can stop the mandate when our leader is saying it comes from God, and that the divine right of kings belongs to him and him alone. America where are you she asks, the one in which peace and reason reside, the one in which liberty and justice is for all not just Americans over other countries, not just the rich over the poor. We believe in freedom but only for ourselves? No! That’s not how it works. It either works for everybody or nobody. You can’t just decide who is more deserving. Everyone in the world is, but the land of the free the home of the brave is being corroded from within. Our heroine sings this anthem to rouse the spirits of her country-people and especially herself.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
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and iTunes
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| Worth It |
As a rock ‘n roll metaphor and extension on the theme of the song, America Where Are You, Worth It continues our Heroine’s slide into self-doubt, negativity and self-analysis. She wonders if wanting to belong is really worth it, if she even deserves happiness or success, and being an f’in rockstar. She can barely play guitar, she’s uninformed, the Funeral Genius is the one with all the ambition for chrissakes! But she rallies, she won’t be the first to try, to go for her dreams, but she hopes she won’t be the last. She wants to make her mark whether she deserves to or not. She didn’t even know she wanted happiness and success, never expected its sweet music to invade her life but she wants it to continue, and as long as she keeps trying for these things that’s all that matters. Doesn’t even need the brass ring, just to keep trying cause after all what’s the other option, to become like the Funeral Genius? To give up? Hell no! She’s going to make the most of her life and this crazy world.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639 |
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| In the Know |
The Funeral Genius openly mocks our heroine and her optimistic pursuits. Downtown is where it’s at, that’s where he lays his hat. Uptown can go to hell, as can anything that’s up, happy, or positive. Oh tell me where to go oh cool one, oh lovely heroine he mocks. Are you in the know? Really? Well how about the West Village Wannabees? Chelsea who tries so hard to please? Maybe Soho the artists stop? Or its edgier neighbors on Bedford where all the posers now go? But again at the end of the song he implores her to come back, makes her feel guilty for leaving him saying nothing’s going to bring him down when she’s around which is ironic because nothing ever brings him up and he can’t possibly go down any further! He’s rock bottom baby. Deep in the hole sugah!
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639 |
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| Show Me That Look in Your Eyes |
Oh here comes Mr. softy with those love eyes trying to wooh our liberated and enlightened heroine down to the molten gates of hell. Yeah, he’s a downer but he’s also a serious sweet talker all dressed up in Valentine red. Don’t know if she can resist this rally, but we’ll all keep our fingers crossed. It’s getting steamy.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
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and iTunes
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| So Slow |
Our heroine’s not having any of it. This guy’s gone too far. He’s a damn stalker and she’s going to take care of the problem on her own, lickety-split. She’s in a killing state of mind and our villain better watch his ass!
Andrea says: This song is also about how time goes both fast and slow, there are so many days to fill, but the years speed by. A strange paradox. It’s a play on the phrase “killing time” which I’ve always hated hearing my brother Matt say – “I’m just killing time” because time is something precious and when you forget or forgo what you really want to do, you do just murder time.
From Makar's new album, Funeral Genius, released November 2011
You can buy our tunes on CDbaby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639 |
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