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Subtitled "The Generation X Love Song", this is a slap at the Culture of Victimhood and sounds the most like what "Alternative" Rock usually sounds like out of all the songs on the full album. I wrote it when I woke up one morning, turned on VH1, and saw two Natalie Imbroglio and Alanis Morrisette videos back to back. I had to respond. I just couldn't...take...it...anymore!!

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DYSFUNCTIONAL (THE GENERATION "X" LOVE SONG)

You took away my pride, you damaged me inside
(but left me satisfied---but maybe that was only me?)

You dragged me through the mud and drained my veins of blood,
but passion it did flood, almost drowning me.

(c) You wasted my time and taxed my troubled mind, now would you be so kind and listen to me whine?

You blackened my skies and told me pointless lies,
it’s you I should despise (so why do I think less of me?)

And now I spout clichés like "I’m the mess you made...
but I wish you would have stayed", now all I’ve got is pathetic me.

I was dysfunctional, you were dysfunctional,
the whole world’s dysfunctional...it should have worked.

I’m not responsible!

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from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache, released January 1, 2001

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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