Name: The Misery Song (Or, Must I Wait All My Life)
Duration: P00H04M34S
Description: Guitar and bass played by Sampsa Heikkilä in a secret location in early 2007. Vocals and pathos by Antti Filppu (for the Jews and T.J.) at the Grandfather's Cabin in July 2007. No Master was seen during the mixing, also done in July 2007 (except for the spice up your life).

The Misery Song (Or, Must I Wait All My Life)

from Rehearsal Times (2007) by Thirst

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Guitar and bass played by Sampsa Heikkilä in a secret location in early 2007. Vocals and pathos by Antti Filppu (for the Jews and T.J.) at the Grandfather's Cabin in July 2007. No Master was seen during the mixing, also done in July 2007 (except for the spice up your life).

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Must I wait all my life
For a certain thing to happen?
Must I spend all my days
Just in dozin', just in nappin'?
Isn't there to be a fire?
Oh won't some color come?
Am I blind? Have I no luck?
Am I just plain dumb, dumb
dumb, dumb, dumb, wow
Must I wait all my life
For a certain person's comin'?
Will I die, my life gone,
And still a love tune a-hummin'?
Is my life to be empty?
Oh, won't some real love come?
Won't some real love come?
Is my life to be just one grey
Minute after minute after minute?
Oh God!!!! I could scream!!!!!! Oh God!!!!
I could scream, oh God. Oh, God......
I could bite, I could cry, I am a-hell tired of waitin'-
That's right! When the Lord made me
He did some bum creatin'.
I listen for a sound but all I do is listen;
Now listen: what other people get seems I'm missin'.
I am missin' and I am in a deep unhappy ditch,
And miserable, miserable as sin......
Must I wait all my life for life
All my life for life, all my life for life
All my life for life, must I wait for life
For life, for life just to begin?
Life!! life!!! life!!! For life just to begin....
Must I wait all my life for life just to begin?

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from Rehearsal Times (2007), released February 14, 2019
Music by Sampsa Heikkilä. Lyrics arranged by Antti Filppu, after Eli Siegel's poem "Must I Wait All My Life (or, The Misery Song)". From "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems" (1957).

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