Name: Mandatory Pancake Breakfast
Duration: P00H03M01S
Description: Over 10 years ago, I wrote the lyrics to this song. And more than a year ago, I finished recording it. Then the great show Severance debuted on AppleTV+, and suddenly this song seemed coincidentally tied to it. Not a waffle party, but mandatory pancakes.

Mandatory Pancake Breakfast

by thos e.

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Over 10 years ago, I wrote the lyrics to this song. And more than a year ago, I finished recording it. Then the great show Severance debuted on AppleTV+, and suddenly this song seemed coincidentally tied to it. Not a waffle party, but mandatory pancakes.

lyrics

MANDATORY PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Another memo
Another drain on your time
But treat it with reverence
Give it consequence
Despite common sense
As it’s essential to your climb

You’ve got no free will
And probably no spine
So add to your calendar
What’s in the new brochure
And try to reassure
Yourself that you are still fine

And there
Should be
No question you’ll attend

CHORUS
It’s a mandatory meeting
And pancakes you’ll be eating
You will eat them with some teamwork
And syrup too (there’s no I in syrup)
It’s a mandatory breakfast
Don’t treat this as a request
Have an involuntary scramble
And compulsory bacon too

You’re moving upward
Or are you dying by degrees?
But can you really motivate
Or try to tolerate
As you capitulate
And pray for Lyme disease

It’s not the weekend
But it’s five o’clock somewhere
So just follow protocol
Stay above it all
And dream of alcohol
Or just give into despair

Was there
Ever
A question you’ll attend

© 2021 Those Chuxx Tunes (ASCAP)

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released April 28, 2022
thos e.: vocals, basses, guitars, drums, keyboards, all other sounds

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thos e. Los Angeles, California

A gentleman of a certain age who is also named Jeff Drake. He does other things, but when he's not doing those things, he's doing this.

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