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Rented skeleton, motel medicine
it's a cheapskate way to operate
anatomy to automate
new skin, quickening
walking blood machines
mattress barricades
psychic chi thieves
think you'd get away without payment?
yeah, they got a way of persuading
new air circulates
inside your veins
it's a quick fix
a sedative
a small pill
answers
could you explain
or demonstrate
how to feel
all of me?
losing a name
jettison belongings
disintegrate into dust
drift away, silent
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2. |
Keno
03:57
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Escaped west texas
station wagon
once played waitress
in a foreign film
Self-made methhead
rents a trailer
tight with the pit boss and
can tap the cameras
wears real cool clothes
came straight for tokyo
headset mental
a briefcase, cashflow
no phones
one final plan
last one
we'll move silent
Remember when
I said
we'll rule palm springs
you've been helpful
useful partner
trusted audience
automatic
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3. |
Freon Dumb
03:53
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Defused the bomb
you set on mom's lawn
police see
the red bridge
you set on fire
stumbling high
walking your bike
down the turnpike
get up on
freon dumb
chased your friend with a big steak knife
your dad's terrified
get up on
freon on
should never cross
the nitrous mafia
can't run away
couldn't explain
cause they'd break both arms
heard the DA about to indict
with two black eyes
get up on
freon dumb
you hit a family on I-95
they're all paralyzed
get up on
freon dumb
freon dumb (repeats)
shoulda came home
well-dressed, handsome
you'll fade away numb
you'll fade away alone
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4. |
Horseface Josey
02:54
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Look at the time. Outta my way.
I'm late for Horseface Josey.
She's probably outside, folding laundry.
Estranged from her family.
But she still kicks karate.
Sundays she sings Pavarotti.
Up late at night,
gathering your loose ends in piles.
Yeah you brought sweetness and light,
but you never smiled.
The whole thing,
such a sin.
Hypothesize
all of the ways
to change and reanimate.
Hare Krisha,
retreat upstate,
baptize the neighborhood strays.
Read your last rights,
lotus on your TV, enshrined.
Shrugged all your Catholic pride.
They say you sense when it's your time
But we'll be ok.
We'll just pray for Horseface Josey.
And I beg, and plead
all your faithful devotees
could take away all the pain
and set down.
White light and lace
a levitation.
Just a bag of blood, on a skeleton.
We all decompose in the same ground.
And when we reach old age,
reminisce frequently.
Drive out to see your grave.
Recite your blessing.
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5. |
Honeycreeper
03:16
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Principal killed himself
and there's a vigil in town
about 10
never believed her
cheerleader theater
they'll have to after
thought he was a good clean man
never been
all that you wait until
graduation
played wide receiver
team honeycreeper
I, felt him
pickpocket
I, fell in
summer shut in
devising a plan
with caution
blood on your sneaker
crushed in the bleachers
I, saw him
get violent
I, fell in
And feel that again (repeats)
I feel that again
I could feel that again
I feel bad again
And feel bad again
wanna feel bad again?
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6. |
Ghost Dad
03:13
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Who wants to be a dad?
go to work all day and eat crap and come home and get yelled at
rather spend my time at the track
mess around with my shit out back
who needs another lifeform?
haunting in your scaffold
astral spirits
in your basement
sent a message
I once was a dad
I drove to work each day and ate crap
then I died of a heart attack
you can find my corpse out back
but my soul's playin' catch
who needs another lifeform?
I'd build you a scaffold
I could raise your kids
ecto-plasmic
well things went bad
Made a good ghost dad
all dressed in red
scaring the neighborhood kids
human my lifeform
I'd build you a scaffold
a loving
apparition
who needs a lifeform
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7. |
Ortolan Sung
03:05
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Bureaucrats in basement
devising plans
followed the ortolan
up the stairs
hats off to the waitstaff
and the chef
prepared the maincourse
laced with rat poison
look away they're sickening
president just vomited
on the best man
photographs and film of the decadence
protected by clad-iron waivers
now they're all
strung out
laughing
on the ground
security's all waiting
open-mouthed
jumped on the senator
when he pissed himself
minister just raided
top-shelf
harassed the caterer
and the bride's locked out
look away they're sickening
we celebrate the treacherous
at their final hour
here's to the great
and prestigious
fairly elected guides and saviors
but should you need a favor
reach out
we'll try
never betray
top percentile
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8. |
Mode Fatigue
05:45
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Breathe out
gently
I swear
they'd comfort me
spoil
empty
suffer
from mode fatigue
cache
cruelty
waiting
for me
on adult halloween
ennui trending
we'll guarantee
esteem frenzy
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9. |
Power Con
03:01
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Give me my peace
I played my part
status
money
I need payment
head fiend is a blood sucker
last seen in Indio
with get-rich
quick schemes
and sick game shows
It's a dead-end scam
heard you got an opening?
still laughing when
they're shaking your hand
horse head
sleeping
inside your bed
and nightmare
pipe dreams
invading
infiltrated the corporate structure
blackmailed the CEO
eat shit
cronies
skid row-quo
it's just business and
everyone's an open hand
still laughing when they're shaking your
hand again
telephonic lens
and NDAs
reconsider when
you power con me
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10. |
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Up late in your circuitry
mishandled your alchemy
red blue green
can't remember last new year's eve
except your morning TV
and my Stanley Kubrick dream
static vision transmitter
projects
a pixel scan of your head
I heard you laughin
broadcast
some lost station
thought I could find you on NBC
checked the signal in between
you always loved lucy
followed a phantom frequency
and hope to find away
through the cable
but you invade my set
just then
I turn to Channel 10
drinkin' with Sam and Diane
our friends
up 3 am
light pulse sends
new wavelength carrier
chrominance
interlaced in your TV land
it's good to see you again
my TV friend
been working to plan
a cast reunion
I scheduled repairs
with my cable man
love UFH
but you're made in japan
My TV Friend (repeats)
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