Mediocrity from Infinitesimal by Unwoman

3. Mediocrity: written July 1999. recorded at UCSC- about sleazy guitarist and playing in worthless pretentious bands. [I don't want to name names here but this is about a man in his 30s who had been hanging out with me as friends (so I thought) but who, when my best friend and I were barely 16, gave us wine and tried to molest us both. Two things about this angered me especially: 1. he could never remember her name when asking about her later, even though he'd cajoled her into seeing him again after that incident and 2. because he was older and in “the scene” I let him convince me to play in his amazingly mediocre band. I got paid $25 but it was not worth the humiliation. That was several kinds of learning experience wrapped up in one repulsive package.]

Tracklist

3.	Mediocrity	3:18

Lyrics

You sleaze in everything you do. Once you sodomized a child, and never even
knew her name. That night I lay and wished for none of what you tried to
give me. "You're like two sirens" you said. But I never called you.

Still I always wanted my name in lights
What I thought I could do for fame, back in those nights

But now I will not submit to mediocrity
"Angel named Mercy," who could that be?
Any fool could see through you
Ephemeral bullshit is not for me

I was a 25 dollar whore for you
I wasted my talent on your worthless crap
I was no one, trying to make you look good
The worst job I've ever had to give

(I'll never submit again)
Nevermore will I submit to mediocrity
Your self-serving ignorance, hypocrisy
I was ashamed by our name and your pretension
I know this life of whoredom is not for me

In all your decadence I will not lie
(an inside joke, July 1999)

Credits

from Infinitesimal, released December 20, 1999

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.