• Artist: The Mates
  • Title: Joke
  • Genre: Rock - Alternative Pop, Pop - Alternative Pop
  • Mood: Down/Dark/Melancholic
  • Speed: Medium (78-95)
  • Instruments: Textures/pads, Real Drums/Drum Kit, Electric Guitar (Clean, Overdriven), Loops/Samples, Bass
  • Track type: Lyric - Full Length
  • Date added: 12/10/2009
  • Lyric themes: Denial, Egotism Selfishness, Anger Hatred, Sympathy, Low Self-Worth, Jealousy Animosity
  • Lyrics: Gather 'round let's watch this clown go down What a graceful fall Flat on your face you feel so small You're a joke (joke!) Everyone is laughing at you (you're a joke!) Everything you say and you do (you're a joke!) Everyone is laughing at you Can't deny you cry for humble pie Such a hopeless mess Your crushing failure's a big success You're a joke (joke!) Everyone is laughing at you (you're a joke!) Just can't seem to win so you lose (you're a joke!) Everyone is laughing at you Oh it makes me so happy to see you Drowning in your misery But I am you so you'll agree The irony The joke's on me yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh Suppose it may be cruel To ridicule a brilliant fool like you Joke (joke!) Everyone is laughing at you (you're a joke!) Don't know how you stand to be you (you're a joke!) Everyone is laughing... At you
  • Keywords: sad
  • Ending type: End Button

About The Mates

The Mates

santa barbara, CA United States

The Mates

Looking forward to looking backward? Join The Mates on their defiantly nostalgic journey into Future Junk, the imaginary soundtrack to a Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy set in a Britpop version of The Jetson's. Melancholy harmonic fields shimmer behind the perfect pop craftsmanship of the slaphappy opener, Which Way to the Future, as well as in outright downers like The Buzz Is Over, and Despair. The dialectic comes full circle with the eminently danceable This ...

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