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Cheer Up

by Soul Low

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    "That push-and-pull, that post-adolescent rage and confusion, reverberates throughout Cheer Up. “Tired of the life I know / Raining with no rainbow” sings Balistreri on “Chancin’ In.” It’s a song that laments life’s “ebbs and flows” and the drudgery of “[driving] to another show,” but cloaks it all in a head-bopping barn-burner that grows more manic as it goes along. The title track is even more direct: “Do you wanna die? So do I” Balistreri croons, before offering a resigned “cheer up, everything is fine” capper." - Milwaukee Record

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Intro 00:55
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If I tell you I don’t need sunshine I want you to call out my bluff And if I tell you that I don’t feel fine I want you to say I’m enough Cuz I got a bad set of moods and I think they’re gonna last longer than you I’ve got a bad set of moods and i think it's gonna be a while Be a while 'til they move If you catch me asleep in the daytime I want you to wake my ass up And if you catch me humming “Take Time” I want you to tell me “Shut Up” All across the shore You feel it even more Your body hits the floor You lose You wake and go to school You’re feeling like a fool Cuz no one understands Your mood
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Feeling fine feel like I wanna go outside Life’s alright but only for a while Then you get old and you slow down And I can't surmise what it’d be like to tie my ties Life’s alright but only for a while Then you get old and you slow down And I don’t know who I would call if I fall down in the dead of the night and am not alright And if we should drown in all the stuff that brings us down Hit me up cus’ darling I’ll come around And we’ll get old and we’ll slow down Cus’ when feeling fine it gets so rare you wonder why You stay alive then darling it is time That you ask me to be your wife Propose to me Darling take a knee, oh baby get close to me I can't promise anything, oh baby propose to me, propose to me, oh, propose to me Tonight Feeling fine feel like I wanna go outside The weathers nice and I just paid my bills on time Feeling fine, feeling fine, feeling fine, feeling fine Know it’s time when everything is settling right Its grey outside but I got you right by my side
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Chancin' It 03:22
Over the water’s flow 100 feet down below But oh my god I feel like chancing it Giving up and letting go Tired of the ebbs and flows Drive to another show And oh my god I feel like chancing it Giving up and letting go Letting Go Tired of the life I know Raining with no rainbow So oh my god I feel like chancing it Head full of mud and you know I’m chancing it Tasted my blood and its sour who gives a shit Giving up and letting go
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There are women who think I’m something but you are a woman who knows I’m nothing I’m in love with you and don’t know how not to You keep on pushing my goddamn buttons There are men who think they’re something but I am a man who knows he’s nothing Trying to get though but sometimes it’s hard to When I wanna stick my head in the oven I keep your contact solution next to the once a day vitamins in case you come back again, it will be the same And if you need me I will be here next to the once a day vitamins in case you come back again, I don't think I’ve changed There are people who think they’re something but you look at me and you don't see nothing I’m in love with you but what you put me through It lets me know that we could be nothing
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Waterslide 02:41
Do you wanna die? Black and white Cheer up everything is fine Darling look into my eyes and I’ll try to think up something nice Said are you gonna cry? “No, I’m fine” She tears up and lets the water slide down passed her breast onto her thigh While I try to think up something nice
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I’m sad You were the best friend that I had And now you’re gone and all is drab Now you’re gone and all is bad But we’ll meet again I’m not sure how or why or when Not sure as frenemies or friends But I am sure we’ll meet again In the moonlight Damn This stupid place is all I am Where the great beer’s made by the working man Where the fears maintained with a shaking hand Get out while you can And if you can my baby run Cus in the city with all these churches You can see what god has done In the moonlight You wait to see the man and when you finally shake his hand you’ll ask him “How do you do?” He’ll show you around his place and when you see his master plan you’ll ask him “How could you do this to me?” Cheer up, fuck up Get up, drink up, eat up or shut up You’re too young to die you, you don't try and you give up You’re so down you don’t even know what is up
8.
Our New Deal 05:20
You and I we have lost the will to fly In the land of milk and pie we’re down about it And I can try to turn water into sprite, but if the ice is going to melt either way then why should I Was in your place when you said you needed space I can see by the look on your face you thought about it Said I can change but you were not entertained So we walked home in the rain and cried about I won’t see you 'til I need to that was our new deal Dot the “i”s We have lost our fucking minds All the things holding us down have come untied Future of mine, it is ugly and unkind All the music’s dead but we are still alive I won’t see you 'til I need to that was our new deal And if I can’t see you when I need to who will help me deal You and I we can give it another try I can grab some food if you can grab some wine Perhaps this time a joke will get us through the night And I won’t cry because you start to cry
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JD & Me 02:26
Chubby little second grade pre-teen in school on the north side of Milwaukee fifth graders found me ripe to tease fifth graders found me easy Called me over to the evergreen they said they had to warn me secretly Jeffrey Dahmer lives right down the street Told me I was just plump enough to eat Now I’m terrified Jeffery will come and get me Terrified Jeffrey’s a little hungry Get off the school bus I’m all alone Open the door but there’s no one home I rush to turn on every light we own Scared to have the meat sucked from my bones I asked my mom if Jeff was real She said “no honey, cheer up, you ain’t no meal” But that didn’t chase off all my fears Cuz hey here’s me after all these years I’m terrified Jeffrey will come and get me Terrified Jeffrey’s a little hungry for me
10.
Amputee 02:21
Just because I said I would doesn't mean I really will Just because your touch feels good doesn't mean it always will I don’t know where this comes from I just know I want it gone Thinking of an older time I was yours and you were mine In hindsight everything was fine but I guess hindsight can lie Darling wake up He’s gonna make a fool of you Oh wake up No matter what he says to you He’s gonna send you back to me And you can take a piece I’ll be your amputee
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Cheer Up 04:29
Do you wanna die? Black and white Cheer Up everything is fine Darling look into my eyes and I’ll try to think up something nice Did i forget a line? Whoops That’s alright Cheer up everything is fine Darling give this one a try And I’ll find i works most of the time Do you wanna die? So do I But cheer up everything is fine Darling look into my eyes and I’ll try to think up something nice Did I fuck up your life? Whoops That’s alright Cheer up everything Darling give this one a try and I’ll find it works most of the time

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"Cheer Up" is the third full length album by Soul Low
All songs written & performed by Soul Low
Soul Low is Sam Gehrke, Jake Balistrieri, Sean Hirthe, Charlie Celenza

Recorded & mixed at Shane Olivo Audio
Mastered by Carl Saff

Album photograph by Phillip J. Hoffmann

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released July 28, 2017

Ernest Brusubardis IV, Violin on 1, 7, 8
Viktor Fineas Brusubardis, Cello on 1, 7, 8
Glenn McCormick on 6, 10

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