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FRANK WOEBEGONE'S LAMENT (feat. Miranda Zickler)

from Woebegoner by Danbert Nobacon Miranda Zickler and The Bad Things

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F/FWD>>> PLAY>
Thanksgiving - Thursday November 27h 2025
LEEDS, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND

Woebegone had bad dreams. And why wouldn’t he. His mother had been murdered when he was aged six and his father had disappeared. Some said Frank Woebegone had killed her, but as a son —in spite of the crushing anger of losing one parent and not knowing where the other was— he could not believe the one had killed the other. In that he was right, unless you counted falling in love as a cause of death.
When Johnny finally caught up with his dad the old man was in a hospital for the terminally ill in Leeds, Yorkshire. He was in debt in a mountain of medical costs, and he told his son that he’d better take back what he’d told the nurse about being the long, lost son, lest he be slapped with the final bill for the treatment.
Frank had nothing to bequeath to his son except the explanations, stripped of excuses and self-justification, of a man who was almost dead. It was as close to the bone as his pale yellowing skin, flexing with barely existent muscle, and it came in fits and spurts as the death rattle breath of pneumonia allowed.
It was Thanksgiving in a country that did not celebrate it, and food for both of the men wasn’t even on the menu, but for the first time in his life, that he could remember, Johnny spent it with family.
And later, not much later when Frank died as Johnny watched, new wounds transmuted from father to son. But also, in combination, feelings at the atomic level had new and sharper tools to work with. In fact they were already at work, ever so imperceptibly engaged, in cutting a new opening in Woebegone’s straight-jacketed heart. In the meantime, Johnny would naturally re-interpret the death song in the attempt to make it his own.


RWD<<< PLAY>
Friday June 4th 1993
CHICAGO, IL

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FRANK WOEBEGONE’S LAMENT

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I DID SOMETHING RIGHT, BUT IT TURNED OUT WRONG
WRONGER THAN WRONG COULD EVER BE
I REACHED OUT TO MY SECRET BABY, ONCE TOO OFTEN
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE DEATH OF ME

I WAKE UP IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT AND I SEE HER FACE
PURPLE BLUE IN THE REFLECTED LIGHT
I SEE HER IN YOU, NOW THAT DEATH HAS FINALLY TRACKED ME DOWN
SON, SHE LOVED YOU. MORE THAN ANYTHING

SHE’S DEAD! THERE I SAID IT. SHE’S DEAD. SAID IT AGAIN
SHE’S DEAD. SAYING IT DON’T HELP ME NONE
SHE’S DEAD. ALL THE HURT IN THE WORLD.
SHE’S DEAD. COMPOUNDED BY NUMBNESS
SHE’S DEAD, AND CONGEALING IN ME

I WAS DRINKING MY SECOND GIMLET, WHEN I FIRST SAW HER
SET A BURNING, BLOODY BONFIRE IN MY GUT
SHE LOOKED AT ME AND I KNEW, THEN SHE LOOKED AWAY
WHEN HER ARMOR PLATED HUSBAND SAT BACK DOWN

A GANGSTER BY THE NAME OF MOSES
VETUS TESTAMENTUM! LIVED BY THE COMMANDMENTS IN REVERSE
YOU MIGHT WANT TO REBUILD YOUR FACE, IF YOU EVER CROSSED HIM
BEFORE HE DIED, YOU KNEW HIM AS YOUR FATHER

WE LED A DOUBLE LIFE, FOR SEVEN HATE-FILLED YEARS
FRANK KISSED HER BRUISES WHEN I COULD
I— WE TRIED TO RUN, BUT HE WAS WAITING FOR US
MOSES KILLED ME, YOUR REAL DAD KILLED HIM AND FLED.

SHE’S DEAD …
WE’VE YET TO EVOLVE THE GENE BY WHICH YOU COULD EVER FORGIVE ME
SHE’S DEAD …
I’M SORRY SON I COULDN’T EVEN WRITE
SHE’S DEAD
I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY SO SORRY
SHE’S DEAD
I HAD TO DISAPPEAR FROM THIS LIFE
SHE’S DEAD AND CONGEALING IN YOU
SHE’S DEAD AND CONGEALED IN ME

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from Woebegoner, released February 1, 2019

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Danbert Nobacon & The Axis of Dissent Twisp, Washington

Danbert Nobacon 'freak music legend,' 'mischievous political goblin,'got an associate degree in the science of children’s play in England in the 1990’s whilst moonlighting in the punk rock band Chumbawamba.
The new album "Kochtopus's Garden—Now That's What I Call Capitalism—The Musical" lands on Mayday 05.01.24. ... more

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