1. |
Repeat Perform Ants
03:53
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Elevator pitch:
what if problems don’t exist?
write each worry on a list
you can read buh- you can read between
read between, oh.
Dance your life away
legal case in disarray
chew on something good to say
never tell a- don’t speak a word
don’t you say a thing!
Way to celebrate,
eat a half a birthday cake
took your keys out of the vase
no one lives there- lives there now
Strain to stay awake,
walk around without a face
witnesses will say that they
saw you standing- you stood right there
Gamble out debt
dig a hole and pitch a tent
choose the one that represents
the way you- way you feel
the way you feel
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2. |
Midtones
03:48
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I’d kinda like it if you stayed
I’m trying to say why don’t you
make yourself at home here,
hunker down for a moment,
put your feet up and
let your hair down for once?
but I don’t know even know your name
oh, I just see the way you’re looking all around you,
memorizing faces like you’re trying to wear them, just
Behave, behave,
Behave, behave.
You work so hard for your family
you just scrape by to survive
you carved out your little corner
just outside our life
it never occurs to you maybe
we just look the other way
you don’t understand what I’m saying
but you read my face
Let’s not mince words
you’re afraid
you’re looking for a face to call your own
but you wouldn’t know what to do if you got one
I kinda like it when you fail
blustering like you got something important to say,
but you’re just making yourself look foolish
Oh, fancy meeting you here
for a piss round quarter to five
a novel idea that I had that you copied off me
we’re crossing paths maybe too often now
feel you elbowing in on me
won’t be replaced in my own house,
but we like having company
Behave, behave,
stay out my way.
Behave, behave,
stay out of my way
Behave, behave,
things go my way.
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3. |
Man's Laughter
05:07
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You seem to look a little pale
or are those cheeks a little flush?
open your mind to miracles
we think we may just have the stuff
Have you sampled our face cream?
it's kinda making my hands bleed
pilot test our new product
it maybe rots out your tear ducts
oh no.
Your heart may race, but that’s okay
your wife may faint, and that’s just great
your blood pressure could go either way
if it works or not, we still get paid
You gotta stick to the system
just ignore your new symptoms
you must commit to a year’s worth
sell it to friends if your hair hurts
email us if you bleed out
next of kin gets a discount
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4. |
Abandonment Salve
03:18
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Give up and go to sleep?
no, I will never surrender
the learning curve’s too steep
and I won’t go under
The morning I foresee
a couple missed stops on the train
hey if that’s where I catch them winks
it’s worth more than I paid
No, no it don’t seem strange
to be up this time of night
‘cause I don’t seem crazy
in the right light
I’ve not lost my mind
from the word go
Now that I’ve got me all to myself It’s going to be a time
all wide awake take in everything ever all night
Don’t you feel so crazy
just skipping out on life?
It’s so amazing
I’m all mainlined
you’re wasting time
but I’m impossible?
No one’s paying me
I’m the provider my service is free
I
drift through my
day but lights
out my mind
comes alive
every night
Don’t it seem so strange
to be running out of night?
Oh no. OK.
The sun may rise
I won’t close my eyes
I won’t go
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5. |
Kid Hideous
04:03
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Where does all the time go?
Did you make sure the lid’s closed?
Sometimes it finds a way to leak.
Keep both of your eyes closed
make sure you have got clean clothes
the way your mother taught you to
Dig yourself a shallow grave
assume that you will not be saved
six feet down into a pit
put your back right into it
Take a cognitive shower
(Make this man an honest man)
every hour on the hour
(Make sure there’s just nothing left)
don’t want intruders hanging round, no
What? Is this happening?
Why? Is this happening?
Will? This keep happening?
How? Is this happening?
Hands up, do a little spin, don’t forget you gotta
clean up, give a little back, take a mortgage out and
spend it, put a little down, ante up to a
house with a yard and a ditch and a grave and a
Where did all the time go?
You had to make sure the lid’s closed
already feel us slipping backward.
Thank the brutal policemen
for kicking your teeth in
so no one else would get the chance to
Ooh, air is harmful to breathe now
(Air is harmful to breathe now)
take a deep breath and slow way down
(Take a deep, deep breath and slow way down)
this is happening, this is happening, this is happening
Chew your food to completion (Chew your food!)
minimize all of your excretions (Chew all your food!)
this is happening, this is happening, this is happening
And you die, and you die, and you die,
and you die, and you die
without flinching, without flinching
And you die, and you die, and you die,
and you die, and you die
without flinching, without flinching, without flinching
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6. |
Hyperbole Basement
03:14
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7. |
Crumple Splits
03:01
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You’ve been invited
to take holiday forever...
tell Grace in Accounting,
let Sam in HR know that
you’ve gone away
Every day there’s an endless buffet
and the chef will cook omelettes or different souffles
it’s embarrassing, embarrassing, all of the riches
You will be graded
for your thoughts and all of your feelings...
on a merciless curve where
you’ll cling to hang on
and won’t find a way
Don’t get too cozy and act like you own the place
maids are complaining that you’re a disgrace
you’ve got everything, but you’ve got to live with yourself still
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8. |
Smock Cannon
07:53
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Rubber Spaniel Chicago, Illinois
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