Track 12 – Scapegoat
Scapegoat’s cool as hell. What else can I say? It’s a minute long. C G Am G F G C Am Am9 Am Am4 E7 Dm7 G7 C Em Am Dm7 G7 F Fm C. “hush, my little scapegoat, with all the attention that you get, sometimes it’s hard to feel proud of who you are/it’s ok to feel lost/oh I know the world can change so fast/it’s ok to feel angry sometimes/coupled with your nervous ticks, your laugh’s unbearable/somehow everything seems to hide behind that smile/some things are best left unsaid, seemingly unformed inside your head/the opportunity you were waiting for has gone.”….that’s it. that’s the whole first record. We hope you enjoy it. Hopefully, in the near future we’ll post some random demos, outtakes, and other songs we’ve given up on. Until then, keep your chin up. –midge and the rest of the jurors.




Scapegoat - Sure Juror

Track 11 – Social Cheerleader
Kevin Convery is perhaps the only person in the world who likes this song. And that’s good enough for me. It’s about people who discover their worth through self-help books and repeat little mantras over and over to themselves. Fuck them. Words art “are you sure you want to be happy again?/you’ve bought books and you hope they can show you how/enemies acting friendly/everyone’s getting too involved in it/he’s standing barefoot in my backyard/there’s the luck he didn’t recognize til he lost it/it’s true I’ve never been good to you/but this Christmas it’s the least I can do/I didn’t realize you felt this way and have for a long time/you’ve got to make up your mind/it’s hard for me to understand/don’t count on me to stay your friend through it/you’ve got to live with what you are/ ‘everything is alright, everything is alright, everything is alright.’” –midge mcgibbons





Social Cheerleader - Sure Juror

Track 10 – New Recruit
The words in this song were written by me and Becky Sulin. Since I have no real right to reprint her lyrics, I’ll only write the section that I’m completely responsible for (the bridge). Chords are Am-C-F…Dm-G7-C-Em-Am-Dm-G7-F-G-C…C-E7-Am-F…G(aug)-G#(aug)-Am-F7-G(aug)-G#(aug)-Am-Dm(aug)7-F-G-C. Words for the bridge are “I can’t call you crazy for joining the Navy/it’s fine/we’ve had our time/I miss being bothered by the drama that followed these kinds of self-designed lies and how I’m working too hard to be kind/we were first in line cos faith was so easy to fake/we could waste more time taking turns always failing, saying ‘I just can’t afford you, darling’/maybe it’s the drinks talking.” –midget.




New Recruit - Sure Juror

Track 09 – Fussy
I wrote this song when I was 18. it’s a bit sentimental and tacky. It’s about how being miserable is sometimes the only thing you can count on. Whatever. Chords are C9-Em-D7-G…F-Am-F-Am-F-G-C-G-Am-F-G-C. Words are “the courage you finally found/I won’t let you down/the home you left behind/I won’t let you down/I have no answers/I feel like an accident/and this time around, I might never come back again/but I know you will stay/you won’t leave me on my own/and I know that when I am here, I’m home/the spirit you spread around/I won’t let you down/with some honest opinions know I won’t let you down.” –midge.




Fussy - Sure Juror

Track 08 – The Drive Will Do You Good
I thought this song sounded too much like the white stripes when I wrote it, so I kinda hated it for a while. I think its one of the better songs on the record now, however. ‘What’s it about?’, you ask. Mormon girls, unfortunately. Deal with it. I ripped off the wrens at the end (see 13 months in 6 minutes off Meadowlands). Chords: Em-A-G A7-G Em-A-G A7 Bm7-A7 Em-D-A7-G-Bm E(maj)7 G#-A(aug)-E-F#m(aug) E-B-A…etc. Words: “I might take you more seriously if the lights weren’t in your eyes/everything you’re telling me is a lie/I found my piece of heaven quietly sneaking out the back/everything’s been leading up to that/and as a matter of fact, each day’s a dimmer glimmer of the life I had mapped/a one-sheet exaggeration of a dream I once had of being cornered by the coroner saying ‘I’m so glad that you came’/I never thought you would change/I never thought you were strange/it’s just odd that you’ve been mingling for so long/forget all the mistakes you’ve made/they all get fixed while you’re away/girl, I’m sorry I ruined your family home evening/don’t know where you’re going but I can’t be too far behind/don’t know where you’re going and that’s just fine/tv warned me this shit’d kill me but I wasn’t listening/she’s barking like a caged bird/she won’t stop and think/you didn’t even say hi/you reorganized my furniture and laid down on your side/let’s stay friends by staying silent and let love pass us by/there’s an underlying urgency in how you waste time/the drive will do you good.” –midgie-widgie.




The Drive Will Do You Good - Sure Juror

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Track 07 – Ex-Cuties
Ex-cuties is a cute little song about bad relationships (cos that was all I could bring myself to write about at that point in my life…these songs were written about 3 years ago, understand…I was only a kid at the time). Reeeeeegardless, its okay. Give it a try. Chords are mostly C-Dm(aug)7-C-E7-F-C-G. Words do something like this: “you won’t say the phrase that pays/our lines have been crossed for days/your talent is slowly going to waste/you’re not in the mood to dance/this party’s gotten out of hand/you’re making that face you know I can’t stand/your brilliant strategies waste more of Dad’s money/complaining we got no energy left to make it through to the weekend/if this is love, it won’t last/I’m no completist, I’ll take but I won’t finish/there’s something very charming about how you got lost driving your point home/if this is love, if won’t last/…/this is hardly our first fistfight/tradition don’t make it right/you knew I could never live up to the hype.” –get some. (midge).



Ex-Cuties - Sure Juror

Track 06 – Done Nothing
One of the last songs written and recorded for the first record. It was written as a Christmas present for David (keyboards) about our lives when we lived together. Fun shit, motherfucker.
Chords: C-Bm-Dm-C-Cm-Gm-F#7-G#7-E-Gm-Fm-G#m-Gm(aug)7-C. words: We’ll stay at home/spend our lives on the phone/burning cash in our lungs/dancing naked for friends/short of breathe/hard on love/that’s the thing, though, I’m not going/wishing for an end to all the time we’ve spent/done nothing with ourselves/punching holes in walls.” –midgito vito montgome.


Done Nothing - Sure Juror

Track 05 – You’ll Never Recognize It
I wrote this song when I was 18. I got shit for the cut-and-paste intro from the engineer at the time, but I think it’s the best part of the song. Song’s about racism and shit. Chords are D7-Bm-G-D Em-A7-D7-G. Words are…monotonous, but here they are anyway: “you will never recognize it…/I know that you will wait for me…/it’s true that I never loved you…/a runner in one of the few races it’s still ok to hate/two babies born with working eyes and ears on someone else’s face/it’s true that I never loved you, but, it’s true, I’ll never leave you/I know the truth would bother me.” –midge.



You’ll Never Recognize It - Sure Juror

Track 04 – Thank You in Advance
The last song we recorded for the first record. This was about porn addiction and God. Chords are Am-C-F-Dm(aug)7 E7(add 9)-D6-F#m-D-Gm(aug)6-D-Bm-E-A Bb-Gm-C-F G#-Aaug-D#-Eaug-Fm-D#-C#-Cadd4-C. Words are “you shout out slogans while you sleep/a dream full of actors you can’t believe/a laundry list of dirty words, some milk/we’re so ugly it’s almost cute/they won’t come knocking at your door/this time I can truly say it was not my fault/I’ve never been hungover like this before at all/next time let’s pretend that you were impressed by me/you believe all the promises you knew I’d never keep/here’s some more clumsy anecdotes on love in the next ice age/a flirting compassion minus the embarrassed sincerity/oh there is a line/you’ve been slowly losing your mind/the corner is dark with the integrity lost by faking a name and your fame/this is turning into one awkward conversation about if I’m truly happy with life/no I couldn’t have asked for a more effective waste of my time/in so many words, I’ve come all this way to thank you in advance/a fistful of tarot cards been dotting her eyes with hearts/let’s take the time to feel less than at ease with ourselves/I’m taking you home/you need some time to be left alone/in the quietest house, I went soft in your mouth/there’s no one to blame, it’s just a shame.”-midgie-widgie.






Sure Juror - Thank You In Advance