Whatever You Choose To Believe

from Barely Noticeable by John Magnuson

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The price of really saying
How you feel is not worth paying
Despite how it can buy you
What you really, really want

So you stay essentially silent
And equip your harmless island
With items that are useful and can be relied upon

The rich control the weather
This chair is not real leather
There's nothing up the ruling party's sleeve
We're all in this together
I'll live with whatever
You choose to believe

Ghosts hear your repartee
They hang on every word you say
Living, breathing ghosts locked down in prisons that they haunt

That's all they do, is listen
And they know so much is missing
It's straight from day to night to day, without a dusk or dawn

Spaceships in the desert
Way too small to measure
Strange creatures we will meet on Christmas Eve
We're all in this together
I'll live with whatever
You choose to believe

Whatever you may tell them
In all likelihood won't help them
Just give them ammunition for more scrutiny and taunt

So parts of you remain
While others go, against the grain
You seem to have departed and will stay completely gone

Our fate depends on whether
All this empty pleasure
Is all that's left out there to be received
We're all in this together
I'll live with whatever
You choose to believe

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from Barely Noticeable, released November 20, 2020

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John Magnuson Minneapolis, Minnesota

Back in the 90’s, John Magnuson was in a Minneapolis band called the Carpetbaggers. John was the middle guy in that band. On November 20, 2020, Magnuson released an album called "Barely Noticeable". It features Peter Anderson, Stephen Murray, Ray Barnard, Paul Bergen, Dave Boquist, Alissa Jacobsen, Becky Kapell, Ian Nygaard, and George Turklebaum. ... more

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