If You Wanna Use Your Head (Marc Cheeseman)

from Help Yourself by Songs of Tom Smith

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lyrics

I first met Marc Cheeseman at a crazy gig we did at the Junk Bar with a totally one-off version of the Songs of TS.

Some band members were traumatised by certain events that night but Marc loved what he saw and said he'd be keen to collaborate on future projects.

Him joining the band has inspired me to write a set of psychedelic songs which should be recorded and released end of 2021 ish

Lyrics:

Every morning a traffic jam to work
Like so many other liberal intellectual automotons
In a 5 hour mushroom trip
I learnt more about the brain than years of research in psychology

CHORUS
If you wanna use your head
You have to go out of your mind

Take responsibility for your own mind
Or be programmed by the interests of corporate government
They sacked me from my academic post
For giving staff and students psychedelic substances

CHORUS

LSD was illegal I made it
A League of Spiritual Discovery sacrament
The psychological test they gave me
In prison was the very one I had fashioned them

I falsified the questionnaire
To make myself conformist and conventional
So they put me in a low security prison
I escaped the US to French Algeria

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from Help Yourself, released April 23, 2021

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The Songs of Tom Smith is a recording and performance project created by Tom in 2012. It has a large pool of musicians across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

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