{"id":14,"date":"2026-05-05T22:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:49:10","slug":"brother-black-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/05\/brother-black-lung\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother Black Lung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brother Black Lung by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F120441502&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Notes:<br \/>This is one of my favorites from the first album. This one went together very easily. John came in with the idea for the music for the verses and I came up with the chorus. The drum sound came out huge and fit so well with what we were doing. <br \/>There was one part, the two bar drum break, that was so off it was perfect. I tried to improve upon it and wrecked it completely. Of course, I had no back up.<\/p>\n<p>John wrote the lyrics about Agualung&#8217;s (from the Jethro Tull song) brother, Black Lung.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Standing in the cold rain, shivering your best friend<br>The clothes you wear were worn upon peers of Napoleon<br>Nicotine and frostbite render you cold and bitter<br>Staring at pictures of the local babysitter<br>The atmosphere is desperate, it\u2019s worse than he thought<br>Disillusioned by his masters, and their incandescent plot<br>Can he still do all those bad sins, he did in the past<br>Will his masters let him live, as if his die was cast<br>CHORUS<br>When will his journey end<br>Envy his only friend<br>His song remains unsung<br>He is Brother Black Lung<br>Here walks little Susie, her pigtails in tow<br>She is a graceful vision, backdropped by the snow<br>He wants to hold her closely, like it was meant to be<br>But she will pull away from him, trying only to get free<br>CHORUS<br>When will his travels end<br>Lust his only friend<br>His song remains unsung<br>His is Brother Black Lung<br>She\u2019s running to tell mommy, of this nasty, nasty man<br>Who is frozen and disheveled, hiding in a van<br>Black lung is behind her, she\u2019s waiting to be saved<br>From an elderly kind of pervert,&nbsp; who\u2019s life is so depraved<br>&nbsp;CHORUS<br>When will this sickness end<br>Wrath his only friend<br>Much like aqualung<br>He is Brother Black Lung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:This is one of my favorites from the first album. This one went together very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}