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Dakota Loesch - Don't Solve My Mysteries

from Group Picture Vol. 8 by Making New Enemies

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I’ve been listening to a lot of Dakota’s music (solo, Animal City, Lemp Lungs) recently. I keep coming back to it, and its not a mystery. After hundreds of songs in his pocket, songs like “Don’t Solve My Mysteries” still sound musically and lyrically fresh, like Dakota has never had writer’s block in his life. When I listen to his music, I feel like it vicariously breaks down my own creative barriers. For instance when I first heard this song and he dropped the hook “just don’t solve all mysterious” I had that knee-jerk urge to ditch what I was doing and go write a poem or something. His will to create is just that contagious. Combine that with the Casio-keyboard bedroom drum machine vibe that I love so much about his songs like “The Basmati Rice” and you have a 10/10 GP banger.

buy the hard candies, put them in a bowl
you eat first the candies that you like the most
you’re left with pineapple, pineapple, pineapple
aw shit, so what the hell was the point of that?

listen...

don’t solve my mysteries, let a trick be a trick
kid, i hung up my top-hat and the rabbit is sick
you can steal my magic, you can peek up my sleeve
just don’t solve all my mysteries and don’t smoke all my weed

you drink first the blood from the cup of the host
you drink next the blood from the cut above your nose
you dive and dog-paddle, dog-paddle, dog-paddle
goddamn, why didn’t you swim here in the first place?

now, slow down...

don’t solve my mysteries, can’t a trick be a trick?
i done retired my suspenders, i got too old for this shit
now, if you muster your magic just don’t huck your jokers at me
don’t go solving my mysteries and don’t go smoking my weed

you spend about three years in love with their ghost
that’s one-thousand-plus days, that’s three birthdays both
give baby a bottle, a bottle, a bottle
well hell, it’s almost like you saw that coming

now hold on, smart-ass...

don’t solve my mysteries and forget my luck too
i’ll have to hand you your buck back, abracadabra fuck you
if you make up some magic, you might make a believer of me
just don’t solve all my mysteries, don’t solve my mysteries

and for my next trick? i’ll buy the hard candies

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from Group Picture Vol. 8, released December 25, 2018

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