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I guess I sort of sing/speak the liner notes on this one. It's hard to connect with other people.

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I went to see my doctor for my three-year check-up
He scanned me with his laser, he said “Oh dear, you’re all messed up.”
I said “What is it doc?” He said “I don’t know where to start,
But thing that’s probably gonna do you in is this cancer of the heart

Your muscles are all twitching, and your tendons are about to snap
And your system’s all sickened from taking in all this crap:
Bad food, bad drugs and the sedentary life, and someone’s stabbed you with a knife, it’s tearing you apart
But the thing that’s gonna kill you though is this cancer of the heart

Look at all these people in the world who need your help
You just sit posting pictures feeling sorry for yourself
Look at all these people you walk past every day
Every one of them needs love but you turn them away
When they talk to you, what do you have to say?
Your heart’s been corrupted, the conversation’s interrupted.”

I wrote this song because I didn’t think there was such a thing as cancer of the heart, it was a metaphor. It turns out there is such a condition, it’s rare. The heart is not as susceptible as some of the softer tissue to malignancy, it’s connective tissue, less prone to tumors for some reason, but if you suffer from this condition, then my heart goes out to you, as far as it can, as much as it can.

All that love that surrounds you
Can’t you feel it?
All that love that surrounds you
Why can’t you feel it?
All the love
Why can’t you see it?
All the love
Why can’t you be it?
You put yourself apart
Cancer of the heart

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from Too Much Entertainment, released September 1, 2021
Corky on background vocals

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Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band New York, New York

Dan Kilian swallows hot coals of worry, regret and sorrow, then spits out rough diamonds of pop music. He's well regarded in the Antifolk scene, and whatever that is happening in Park Slope.

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