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Sort Yourself OutCosmo Jarvis

Released: November 16, 2009

Songwriter: Cosmo Jarvis

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

I'm getting too old for this young man's game
As soon as i settle people change
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please

So you come home
And look around your room
At your superman comic collection
"why can't i fly?", you say
And you think about
Where all of this is going
Why couldn't you be a hero?
Well, being a hero's easy in a way

And you're angry that
You've only got two words
That you ever type into google:
"free porn" and that's it, nothing else
And you're so sick of
Pathetically quitting smoking
'cause you're scared it'll dent your lifespan
Quicksand, that's all smoking is
You can't help yourself

And you're broke too
'cause you always waste your money
Like on that stupid mandolin
Still sitting in the corner opposite me
So you lay down
On your bed and try to sleep
But you can't even do that 'cause you've got
Some obsessive compulsive
Thing where you pray for your family

And you're running out of friends to lose
There's something wrong with you boy
You make them leave, you're harsh
So give up and give in to being human
Like you gave in to smoking
How you loved that rollie in your mouth at last

I'm getting too old for this young man's game
As soon as i settle people change
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please

And you sit there
With cups of piss in your bedroom
'cause you figure you'll be gone soon
So you don't use the toilet anymore
And your mother
She's having a nervous breakdown
And the fault is all just yours
You call her names until she sleeps
"goodnight mum you're a whore"

And you're dreaming
Of marrying jessica whats-her-face
Well maybe you will and maybe you won't
But you've gotta deal with now, right now
And your brother
Yeah i can tell he hates you
'cause even on his birthday
You somehow managed to cause a row

You treat
The people that you meet
Just like you treat guitars:
You use them, be nice to them
Then forget them like r.e
And you're so mad
That when you leave the door
You turn into this other guy
And without him you're useless as can be

Sort yourself out please
I'm getting too old for this young man's game
As soon as i settle people change
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please
Sort yourself out please

Sort yourself out please

(this is god. i'm stuck in a barrel
I've been in here for 140 years
Help me.)

Cosmo Jarvis

Critic, journalist, sometime musician, onetime actor, and full-time Midwesterner Mark Deming provides a discographic-based biography for Cosmo Jarvis:

“Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis has earned a devoted following for his witty, often satiric tunes about the foibles of relationships and contemporary life, often rooted in personal experience, as well as his own self-produced videos and short subjects that have given his work a global online audience. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis was born on September 1, 1989 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jarvis' family relocated to the United Kingdom when he was young, and he grew up in Devon in Southwest England. Jarvis began writing songs when he was only 12 years old, around the same time he began making short films using a VHS video camera. While Jarvis' early videos were little more than documentation of pranks played with his friends, with time he began constructing more complex narratives, and similarly his songs began to evolve, ranging from folk-inspired acoustic guitar pieces and elaborate pop tunes to tongue-in-cheek hip-hop tracks.

At the age of 16, Jarvis quit school to focus on his creative work, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his debut album, an 18-song set called Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, which was released by the British indie label Wall of Sound. The album combined Jarvis' observational tunes with a cycle of songs reflecting the emotional turmoil of his parents' stormy relationship. Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch received enthusiastic notices from the British music press, but it didn’t sell especially well, and Jarvis teamed with 25th Frame for his second release, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? A track from the album, “Gay Pirates,” became an Internet sensation after Jarvis' low-budget video for the song was endorsed in a Twitter post by actor and author Stephen Fry, and subsequent airplay helped make the second album a commercial success. While continuing to tour, write songs, and record music, Jarvis has also been writing and directing a feature film, provisionally titled The Naughty Room. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"

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