Party at the End of the World

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Welcome my friend to the party at the end of the world
a cup for your cares and a hook to hang your regrets.

Kings and queens have come in sight
on TV screens and lonely bedroom lights

When I was a child, I learned how a thing works by breaking it
But maybe heaven has an entrance exam and I was taking it

And if there's no more grace and no more woe
I'll hide my face and get on with the show

It's getting hotter and hotter under the glass
a crowd's guaranteed for this unholy mass
'cause if we're gonna die of fright
there's no need to sleep tonight.

Did you ever wonder if we're just an experiment in a petri dish
and one day the big swab will come down and wipe away the paintings and the piss?

And there'll be no more wrong and no more right
just one sad song before we say goodnight

So welcome my friends to the party at the end of the world
a curse for your cares and a hook to hang your regrets.

Judgement day has come in sight
so hoist a glass and hold on tight
at the party, the party at the end of the world tonight.

© 2020 Michael J Barry (BMI) & Lillian Margaret Senna (BMI)

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from Party at the End of the World, released April 5, 2020
Michael Barry - guitar, mandolin, bass, vocals
Bill Hansen - vocals
Elizabeth Steen - accordion
William Barry - drums

Mixed by Huck Bennert
Produced by Michael Barry

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Michael Barry Medford, Massachusetts

Singer songwriter and guitarist for the bands "Pooka Stew" and "Super Genius."

Producer/engineer at Babyland Studio. Owner of Ignatius J Records.

Sometimes I still write and release my own records. ... more

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