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Artist: Liz Phair
Canonical path: /phair-liz/beat-is-up
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Beat is up
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Beat is up
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Self-Helpnosis Guru: The trick to happiness is to ignore anything negative you might feel about yourself:
That people don't really like you that much ...
That you got fat because you're lonely ...
Or that your parents are going to die ...
Annoying North-Shore Soccer Mom: I like to get my caffee with all the little frothy things on the side ...
And I like to put in those little sticks ...
S-HG: The trick to freedom is to deny your past regrets:
Questionable lovers ...
Lies ...
Drunken weekends ...
AN-SSM: I just like to have a lotta energy! My life demands it!
Everything's UP, all the time: Up, Up, UP!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
S-HG: People like positive people! Positivity makes good things happen!
AN-SSM: My husband doesn't let me buy those tabloid magazines 'cause he says that it makes me fight with him more.
S-HG: Pills that you mix with wine ...
That your husband and you aren't having sex any more ...
That you got married for the money ...
It's been positively proved that most Top 40 hits have a BPM of 120 or more.
AN-SSM: I definitely like the gin-sing ... and the gingko bal- ... boa?
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
S-HG: Sometime you picture yourself getting impaled on an imaginary spike sticking out from over your bed ...
When you keep forgetting to call somebody back ...
But the more time goes by, the less you feel like calling ...
Because you're embarrassed!
'Cause it kind of makes you freaky.
And you don't want people to think you're freaky.
Even though you are kind of freaky.
But only in the bedroom.
L-O-L.
AN-SSM: My mom says I'm really hard on my kids. I don't want them growing up thinking that everything's just gonna be handed ta them. They're gonna haveta work their asses off, just like I did! Y'know? We get them up at six in the morning, we're like, "Come on, get up! Get outta the bed! It's gonna be a great day! C'mon!" <kids not enjoying that at all> "Up, up, UP!"
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
What's the beat? The beat is up, ah!
How high? To the sky!
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