A Double Chorus

Can you hear the two different choruses that Phil and Ennis sing simultaneously on this song?
"When I slip away and cannot make it through another day, don't you say that I was wrong to believe in Art and Beauty and the Song."
Variation:
"When I slip awake and make it through another day..."

We all know how hard it is
Seeing beauty through the ruins
When value is determined by money
And I haven't any

I won't waste my life feeding into fear and its factors
We all know by now
TV really isn't real
It's made up of compensated actors

When I slip away (awake) 
And cannot (I) make it through another day
Don't you say that I was wrong to believe
in Art, Beauty, and the Song

The ends never justify the means
Because there never is an end
We walk up that hill
Only to fall down again

Maybe it's a cosmic pun
There's nothing new ever under the sun
And all there is for us is trying
I can't help but laugh for crying
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When I slip away (awake) 
And cannot (I) make it through another day
Don't you say that I was wrong to believe
in Art, Beauty, and the Song

When I slip away (awake) 
And cannot (I) make it through another day
Don't you say that I was wrong to believe
in Art, Beauty, and the Song

When I slip away (awake) 
And cannot (I) make it through another day
Don't you say that I was wrong to believe
in Art, Beauty, and the Song

The Song
The Song
This Song

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Instrumental version 

The FlipCharts · Only What Matters - Instrumental

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Phil Carter, from Sisyphus Banana Peel

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"Remember Das Damen? It's been a decade, but the old New York SST band use to play around here a lot, and now guitarist/singer Phil Carter is back with his "first fully arranged project" since. With "homage references" to John Entwistle, the Ramones, and George Harrison, and thanks to Aristophanes, Camus, and Woody Allen, Carter is a funny, existential '00s guy. But he makes an unhurried sort of old folk-rock filled with quiet spaces, lighthearted piano, trumpets, and low-register acoustics, making a sort of early-'70s art rock witches brew. Think All Things Must Pass meets Tim Buckley, or the first two Entwistle solo LPs without the decibels (sorry, don't hear any Ramones here at all, other than the inserted snatch of "Loudmouth" which sounds more like the Who doing Tommy!) Over this he sings with his plaintive voice, sounding calm and focused on the best song, "Swing It," and in general coming across as a real mellow dude calling the pop of his childhood to come out and play. But not loud enough to bother the neighbors."
​- Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover

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