Despite the band‰’s screwball titling, this closing track to their 2013 release Bad History Month reeks of existential, universal agony. The song opens with warm synthetic distortion and a meandering guitar, gradually transforming its single note melodies into chords. Everything comes to a premature climax that cuts itself off as Sean sings, “It‰’s easy being alive, it‰’s hard to enjoy it,‰” the sheer despair of the line killing its own energy.

The pace picks back up with an apocryphal blessing of grace, “Thank you for giving me hands, thank you for giving me feet, and teeth to eat me.‰” The “teeth to eat me‰” line flows right into a scene filled in equal parts with sixth grade potty humor and biting iconoclasm. Sean fantasizes about eating himself until only an asshole remains, shitting pure gold of his previous existence. His golden essence is molded into a 200 pound golden dick that ejaculates laughter, solving all of humanity‰’s happiness issues. The rest of the Earth‰’s animals remain ignorant of the whole disaster, but it‰’s unclear whether they‰’re unaware of the golden dick or the paradoxical pursuit of happiness, itself ceasing to exist if happiness is ever captured.

At this point, the music is louder and more urgent as ever, and Sean laments his “body that works‰” and “mind that works to destroy it.‰” This section feels like the album‰’s climax; guitar, drums, and vocals are at their most powerfully honest. We find ourselves back at the beginning lines about life being hard to enjoy. The instruments come to a quiet, and Sean closes the song and album with maybe the only statement that could capture the absurdity of the whole thing: “Aw, what the fuck?‰Û