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Where The Wild Things Are

from Fiddler On The Ground by The Speak Easy

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According to author Maurice Sendak, at first the book was banned in libraries and received negative reviews. It took about two years for librarians and teachers to realize that children were flocking to the book, checking it out over and over again, and for critics to relax their views.

Francis Spufford suggests that the book is "one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate, and beautiful, use of the psychoanalytic story of anger".

Mary Pols of Time magazine wrote that "what makes Sendak's book so compelling is its grounding effect: Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side, but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper 'still hot,' balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort.

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Wanna go where the wild things are
Wanna go where I'm real far
Wanna go where the wild things roam
Wanna go where I'm alone

Turbo:
Turbo sucks at rapping, no that's a fallacy
My rhymes are infinite like all of the galaxies,
I use this verse to expand my mind like the universe,
Life ain't that bad I could be doing worse
Need to be living freely so I can speak easy
Just so it can please me, like a girl on her knees we
Give you pleasure for which there is no way to measure
We can go wherever. Off to Ben's cool ass barn,
Unroll our thoughts like a spool of yarn.
So fuck cut the thread, get it straight through your head
They won't let me live free til I am dead.

ATel:
When the stress level's high, everything else is low.
My creativity's screaming "where's your flow?"
Oh no! The kid's lost his mojo.
He needs to focus in on where the wild things go.
Remember that happy innocence as a child,
That's long gone it's been gone for a while.
Currently my life's a living shit pile.
Pissing of Mama J, Step Deuche Lyle
That's uh-uh subject, let me not interject
Topics I don't know why you're not a friend yet.
Luckily, I found this barn, a grotto,
Fuck Hard, Speak Easy, Our Motto.

Corduroy Phoenix:
Now I'm here making mischief in my wolf suit,
Crazy coot sent to bed without his fruit.
Acting delusional with liquor in my cup,
Not exactly cannibal but sure I'll eat you up.
Now I don't fuck around with PCP or shrooms,
But I swear I see a forest growing slowly in my room.
An ocean appears, I can clearly see the stars.
Following cassiopeia where the wild things are.
They mash the teeth and display their sharpened claws,
But I like being with them despite the flaws.
We start a crazy rumpus where we dance and sing
I'm at peace with these demons who call me king.

Wanna go where the wild things are
Wanna go where I'm real far
Wanna go where the wild things roam
Wanna go where I'm alone

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from Fiddler On The Ground, released September 11, 2009

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