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Sail away, take a vacation from your skin. Itemize your feelings. Do the right thing.

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She paid a lot of money to get someone to tell her
How to do the right thing, do the right thing
She moisturizes her skin over and over but it don't
Do the right thing, do the right thing
It's not just a matter of your central lighting
Eternal night time, and pay-per-view fights
It's Christmas time all over; the dogs are still biting
They do the right thing, do the right thing
Acrylics, Narcissus, paternalist wishes,
Correct the right thing, reinforce the right thing
Potential repercussions from the cleaning of dishes
Will force the right thing, erect the right thing
While all the local Andy Capps and criminal handicaps
Correct the night time and get it right
A business card collection and its self-reproduction
It's doing the right thing, it's doing the right thing
In practice it's perfect, in life it's short
It does the right thing, it's nothing of the sort
It's hotter than lightning but nowhere as bright
When it's doing the right thing, doing the right thing
It's coming under fire! Celebrity sightings
The water level's rising, it's doing the right thing
Clearly you realize: the sky is falling
So put on your shades and do the right thing!

Early in the morning, cleaning the clutter
Doing the right thing, doing the right thing
Picking one romantic dinner over the other
Living the right thing, embrace the right thing
I've had enough of competitive smiling
Of taking it easy, of tending to the flock
I'm running for President, my parts are interchangeable
I'm done with my filing, it's time for the right thing
Flip through the yearbook, find religion
Discern the right thing, internalize the right thing
She's ready and she's willing she is going prospecting
She will do the right thing, do the right thing
Your sacrificial dance, your Broadways on fire
Your clothing collection, your pearly whites
Its one year's worth of fully paid vacation
Claiming to do the right thing, do the right thing

No one is watching! You're doing the right thing!
Nobody is watching, so it's alright!
You're doing the right thing! You're bigger and better
Your shoes are telling you to do the right thing!
Your haircut is telling you to do the right thing!
Your facebook is telling you to do the right thing!
Your closest friends are telling you to do the right thing!
No one is watching! Supersize your heart!
Correct the indulgences of doing the right thing!
No one is watching! Minimize your feelings!
Mark the territory of the right thing!
Your best friends are watching, so it's alright!
Sail away! Take your skin with you!
Get out of town! It's alright!
Make a getaway! Do it immediately!
On the double! It's alright!
Your best friends are telling you to do the right thing!
Your haircut is telling you to do the right thing!
Your ten o'clock is telling you to do the right thing!
And I am telling you to do the right thing!
Get out of town! Minimize your feelings!
Itemize it! Supersize your heart!
Sail away! Take a vacation from your skin!
Take your skin with you! Do the right thing!
Your best friends are telling you to do the right thing!
Everyone you know is doing the right thing!
So take a vacation! Itemize your feelings!
And do the right thing, do the right thing!

credits

from The Power of the Crystals, released November 1, 2011
Written by the Missing Teens
James Call - vocals, lyrics, keyboards/sequencing
DJ Pu Yi - keyboards
Spencer Chakedis - guitars
David Tirolo - bass
Dan Gottesman - drums
Dave Schnug - sax
Brer Brian - trumpets
Jamie Stellini - background vocals
Recorded at the Kennel in Brooklyn by James Pertusi
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

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The Missing Teens Queens, New York

THE MISSING TEENS have risen like a Phoenix from the Hudson, to strip indie rock of its independence, and haul it away in chains. The aggression of Punk mixed with the marketability of Beyoncé makes The Missing Teens rock’s only hope in this dark hour. The MT have earned favorable comparisons to DEVO and the Talking Heads and have sworn to take their deranged revenge on a world awash in slack rock ... more

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