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When Will You Die?
02:53
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When Will You Die?
I'm a beetle in a tall, tall tree
Plum-iridescent as the oily sea
Climbing higher up into the sky
Composing sonnets for my friend the fly
I pause on branches to admire the view
Survey the houses of the chosen few
They crowd the valley, crooked, brown and wrong
These dragging husks will never make you strong
When will you die?
You know beetle's wings are made of gold
Ebon-black along their pulsing folds
Moist and pink, your skin is much too soft
The winds would freeze you if you went aloft
When will you die?
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2. |
Gorgeous, Just Gorgeous
02:50
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Gorgeous, Just Gorgeous
Sulfur black and death wish blue
Nothing said, and nothing true
Round and round and round and round
Do it, do it, drooling hound
Make a case for empty sky
Phantom fears, extinction lies
Virus is a man-spoke word
Shared among the dwindling herd
This static is gorgeous, just gorgeous
Your absence is gorgeous, just gorgeous
Fall to ash and fall to dust
Many faces left in trust
Spring is here, so breathe the air
Hands, your hands, you'll find them there--
Sulfur black and death wish blue
Sulfur black and death wish blue
Sulfur black and death wish blue
Sulfur black and death wish blue
This static is gorgeous, just gorgeous
Your absence is gorgeous, just gorgeous
Can't breathe
Can't speak
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3. |
That's a Great Question!
02:16
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That's a Great Question!
Bark, bark, bark
Bark out your answers
Bark, bark, bark
Bark out your answers
Life won't go?
Moves too slow?
See this thing?
It might sting
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
Now go to sleep
Feeling down?
Hate your town?
Does this hurt?
I'm a flirt
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
That's a great question!
Now go to sleep
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4. |
Ha Ha
02:31
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Ha Ha
I can see you in your garden
Fast asleep
By the drowning well
I will write this invitation
Finished and flown
By the dinner bell
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
Mother calls out from her boudoir
Warning you
Of a lightning storm
I watch you twitch and stir from slumber
The falling rain
Is soft and warm
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
Make it real
Make it really real
Make me real
Make me really real
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Guy De Maupassant, I Ain't
When you take me in your arms
And tell me that
Your infowars are sanctioned by
Silver ships orbiting the Sun
Click-click-click
Synchronize the great pacific
Garbage patch to
Astral flares of brain
Memetic consequence and solitary spin
We make our murders
We make our murders
Lies are lies are lies are lies
And lies are lies are truth
Messages we cannot read
Embalmed from me to you
Click-click-click
Synchronize the great pacific
Garbage patch to
Astral flares of brain
Memetic consequence and solitary spin?
We make our murders
We make our murders
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I Pretend That I Know What I'm Doing
And so they tell me: try not to feel so sad
One day they're babies, and the next day they are dads
Whole lotta nothin', nothin' here to do
I'll buy a steamship, and sail it home to you
I pretend that I know what I'm doing
And it's usually really enough
Things get done and people go home happy
We pretend that we know what we're doing
And it's usually really enough
Things get done and people go home happy
I like to think on the secret lives of dogs
They live so briefly, yet lay around like logs
These things we're wantin',
they slip right through our hands
There's so much anger; we all have seven bands
I pretend that I know what I'm doing
And it's usually really enough
Things get done and people go home happy
We pretend that we know what we're doing
And it's usually really enough
Things get done and people go home happy
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7. |
Artficial Reef
03:11
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Artificial Reef
The buildings fall
But I won't go
There is a way
To make them grow
You are here
And I am there
A follicle
Inside your hair
Go
Body go
Go
Body go
Bones
I can see their bones
Bleached and blown
In blood-red light
Walk with me
Through Anthro night
Go
Body go
Go
Body go
Bones
I can see their bones
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8. |
Courage, Mariana
02:52
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Courage Mariana
Down, down, down, down,
Down, down, down--
Down to the loam we go
We can walk all night
Ignoring all the things
That are always gonna make us blue
Fleeing from the light
Another thousand miles
On banking scrip and Elmer's glue
Courage Mariana
Courage Mariana
Rebels in the hills
Cigarettes and meth
Polemics by the darkened moon
Feel the sudden chill
Conjured by a voice
Singing a familiar tune
Courage Mariana
Courage Mariana
Forward, forward, forward--hey
Take a real swing on the garden gate
Forward, forward, forward--hey
History tells us go
Down, down, down, down,
Down, down, down--
Down to the loam we go
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9. |
Candy Hooks
01:51
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Candy Hooks
Is love a fleeting figment?
Is pride a useless curse?
Going downtown with Candy Hooks
He's made of steam, he really cooks
The city growls, the city moans
The city offers up its bones
Captain, where's your compass?
A plague of grackles in the sky
Don't speak a word, don't speak the lie
A man of faith, his touch divine
Turning Slurpees into wine
Captain, where's your compass?
Going downtown with Candy Hooks!
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10. |
The Echo Chamber
03:24
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The Echo Chamber
Nothing ever changed
It all just stayed the same
The days went by
Mothers eat their young
Like bitters on the tongue
It goes both ways
Salesmen waiting in the foyer
Sharpening the words that strike you dumb
Kettledrums announce your party
Cars arrive to whisk your pains away
Passive panting shells
That ride among the swells
At night they pray
Salesmen waiting in the foyer
Sharpening the words that strike you dumb
Science has made us blind
Nothing ever changed
It all just stayed the same
The days went by
Salesmen waiting in the foyer
Sharpening the words that strike you dumb
We bow our heads and say we're sorry
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