Cosmo Jarvis

Released: September 26, 2011

Songwriter: Cosmo Jarvis

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

[Hook] x4
My day!

[Verse 1]
We weren’t polite, we were bad mannered and we didn’t give a crap
About anybody’s feelings or the property they had
Too much cash, ate too much food and threw away what we had left
Only ever cared about the shit we thought we had to get

Our education only hindered our social activities
Never let the teachers teach us, treated them like enemies
Kept on smoking, kept on drinking, kept on bitching bout our health
We chased money; when it never came, we cursed the men with wealth

[Chorus]
In my day, we were spitting in the street
In my day, no promises to keep
In my day, all we did was buy
In my day, 'cause everyone was high

In my day, bitched about the wars
In my day, but no one had a cause
In my day, never spoke our minds
In my day, we pissed away our time

In my day...

[Verse 2]
Kept putting sewage in the sea and putting garbage in the ground
Then we paid to go to festivals where they restrict the sound
Claimed as much as we could claim wherever we could make a claim
And then we spent it all on drugs, 'cause life is better when you're caned

We were ignorant and didn’t care to learn the things we lacked
There were wars and we would criticise them, then we would relax
We were sheep, we sat on any fence that had a pretty view
If it came from men in suits or YouTube, then it must be true

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
We saw 'Planet Earth' on YouTube and left comments on its state
As the internet expanded, made our lazy minds deflate
Grew up thinking we were so advanced and had the largest heads
Didn’t masturbate with our own minds, instead we used the Web

We had no tolerance for anyone, so then we made it law
Which just made people more intolerant to everyone they saw
We gave racist brain-dead alpha males the power of arrest
Joined the army 'cause we saw an advert saying ‘be the best’

[Chorus]

[Hook] x8

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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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