“Punchline”

“Punchline” – March 2019

The story of a boy and that book of jokes he got for Christmas a few years ago and he found while rummaging through his closet and he was like “crap, I never thanked my Grandma for that book” and now the guilt haunts him so he tries to learn some jokes and share them with his friends and they’re like “dude, those jokes are lame” and now he’s very self-conscious.

We had been working on “Firesword” for a while, and we needed a break. Andrew had been listening to a lot of punk music around this time. He specifically called out wanting to make something like “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” by The Dead Kennedys, a short and aggressive track. So we got to work!

This was the quickest turnaround of any song we’ve done. Ben strummed some overdriven power chords while Andrew laid down the drums. Andrew and Ben shouted the lryics into the same mic, no time for overdubs. We used a screenshot of a Snapchat as the cover, uploaded it to SoundCloud, and called it done in about three hours total.

Punchline is our shortest song to date, and also the only one in which we swear. 

Lyrics:

(Hey do you want to hear a joke?) (Okay)

Priest and a Rabbi in a bar
Horse walks in and the bartender said… uh, you… uh…
Shit

I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline

What do you call it when you’re on a plane
And you want a drink and the flight attendant walks by, and… you…
(What do you call it?)
Fuck

I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline

I’m supposed to be the funny one
Cracking jokes with my friends
Guess my comedy career is done
I’ll just share my memes instead

I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline
I forgot the punchline

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