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12. Goodbye My Love

by Tucker Booth and Helias

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    Conceived in 2005 these beats by Helias (aka Michael Schaefermeyer, R.I.P.) were supposed to be the original backdrop for 'Ex Boyfriend' an album not-so-loosely based on our recent break ups with our respective squeezes. Later, after a string of cop outs and near miss recording sessions I drunk dialed him one night and gave him a piece of my mind for 'hijacking my album.' Helias then proceeded to pull the plug on our project, give the beats away to my competitors, and declare Ex Boyfriend dead.

    About a month later Helias had a major computer meltdown and managed to lose all the wav files to the songs he had given away. He then went and ate the requisite amount of humble pie that accompanies telling everyone that the beats they had been given were unusable because there were no files to master them with.

    In the interim 932 producer/dj Splitface and I made the Ex Boyfriend album with beats Split made as an ode to the lost project. They can be listened to and purchased at www.tuckerbooth.bandcamp.com

    The Boyfriend beats were officially declared dead in 2006 and remained so until 2009 when J-Toth uncovered a long forgotten spool of wav file cds that included an early burn of what were now being called 'The Ex Files.' Much rejoicing ensued from St. Louis to Redondo Beach.

    In essence this is the sequel to Ex Boyfriend featuring the beats which originally inspired the album. Hence the sequel is the prequel.

    Sadly Helias passed away last May at age 31. ExFiles is made to honor Helias and the original Ex Boyfriend project we never got make long ago.
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Featuring the same break as Danger Doom and the opening credits to Pulp Fiction, 'Goodbye My Love' eulogizes Mike and the ExBoyfriend project while continuing to say farewell to our friend and muse Dr. Michael Schaefermeyer.

lyrics

They can't play the way that we play
The game we flame for them is too insane
We came to stake our claim in Mike's name
Ain't no shame in my game quite simple and plain
and easy to explain....

After the laughter comes the rain...and then the pain...
Too overwhelming to explain...
But nonetheless we'll kill it...and resurrect his spirit
every time that we hear it...
cuz isn't that why we truly did it?

Coulda wrote 10 albums already...but I didn't...
Cuz ExBoyfriend was my Moby Dick...my prison...
My desire to reconnect with the Doc and his Wisdom
and me, his Emilio E...chasing his Ghost like Demi...
Trying to stay off the coke and quit drinking the Henny...
Cuz it never helps any way that you flip it!
And Mike's music was Meth so it had me addicted...
So high and oh so lifted and
making shit that's holy writ
or as close to it as we could push it...
So even people who hate rap would say 'that's good shit!'
Bash Brothers, back hunkered in our bunker
bout to blow out your back...ExFiles...
you're overwhelmed by our Sex Styles...
It gets wild in the mean streets of Redondo...
Where the dimes are so above 9 and on point like Rondo
and my bomb blows off the upper terrace patio...
with Mike's voice in my earlobes...
flowing deep and low like...

Goodbye My Love...thanks for the memories...
Goodbye Michael...you've been a good friend to me...
The Best Styles...Mutherfucking Midwest Styles....
Some Absofrickinlutely Pass The Test Styles...
Goodbye My Love...thanks for the memories...
Goodbye Michael...you've been a best friend to me...
Some Sweat Styles, Sex Styles, Wet Styles...
Some 'Shut The Fuck Up and Listen to The Ex Files!!!'

Gently...with a chainsaw...
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO THE EX FILES!!!

Defeat The Rocker and The Good Doctor?
You must be tripping off some brown microdots or
misinformed...you will never conquer
what we've got in spades...Soul and Spirit HARDCORE...
Not even Punk....just call us The Litmus...
The Upside Down Standard 24 Hour Fitness...
with the remedies...writing audio prescriptions...
and raping the same breaks as Doom and Pulp Fiction...
You'll never stop us! All you can do is hope to contain us!
Throw us in a padded room
and sneak meds in our Grape Nuts...Electro Shock?
Hey...ever go ape much?
Guess that's why when we got dumped
we didn't date much
and why we got wasted and didn't act our age much...

And of course the snakes on the plane...how they hate us
Want to castrate or straight eliminate us...
But our joints are eternal...so they'll never fade us...
and when they see the light Dr. Mike will
gently educate us on some...

Goodbye My Love...thanks for the memories...
Goodbye Michael...you've been a good friend to me...
The Best Styles, Mutherfucking Midwest Styles,
Some Absofrickinlutely Pass The Test Styles...
Goodbye My Love...thanks for the memories...
Goodbye Michael...you've been a best friend to me...
Some Sweat Styles, Sex Styles, Wet Styles...
Some 'Shut The Fuck Up and Listen To The Ex Files!!!'

Gently...with a restraining order....
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO THE EX FILES!!!

Saying goodbye to a legend is delicate
because it should be sincere and relevant
With that in mind...Mike you were so goshdang excellent!
And you always will be since our God is Infinite Good
and that's who you were...through and through...
So many people miss you...we will forever Love you...
and let these songs we wrote live on in your honor...
May God bless your Soul and you continue to prosper...

credits

released November 30, 2010
The Ex Files, written by Tucker Booth and Jonathan Toth from Hoth, Beats by Helias, Recorded and Arranged by J-Toth at The Cooler in St. Louis, MO for TheFrozenFoodSection.com.

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