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Bitchin'
02:49
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I know, you gotta whine about your life but you ain’t got the time to lose
You gotta bitch about that itch but you ain’t got the time to scratch
You wanna whine about your life but you ain’t got the time to lose
You gotta bitch about that itch but you ain’t got the time to scratch it
A shrill cry is unheard, yet complaints remain
No, don’t tell me, perpetually busy but you always have the time
To talk about it, instead of your work what else are you gonna do to
Validate it, perpetually busy but you always have the time
To talk about it, instead of your work what else are you gonna do to pass the time
Rinse and repeat, nothing’s changed
I know, you gotta whine about your life but you always got the time to lose
You gotta bitch about that itch but always got the time to scratch
You wanna whine about your life but you always got the time to lose
You gotta bitch about that itch but you always got the time to scratch it
Complaints drone on, and remain the same
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2. |
A Razor Wicked
05:25
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Once I had a beard
Fierce as a wolf rabid
Loved at first, then hated
By everyone we know
When you’ve got a beard so
Clean faces look ugly
Razors seem wicked
When you’ve grown
Hair
Beard away, beard be gone
Facial forests are no more
Deforestation come upon
The faces ah those who wish to be men
With each day that passed by
Chin foliage fed
On the souls of friendships
It gets high
Not before long came torches
In the shape of razors
All those together
It’s a trim they’d kill for
Beard away, beard be gone
Facial forests are no more
Deforestation come upon
The faces ah those who wish to be men
Shaven
I have shaven
The call of the raven
Calls for a cave in
Of the jaw stalactite
Revealing the under bite
That will kill us all
That will kill us all
Beard away, beard be gone
Facial forests are no more
Deforestation come upon
The faces ah those who wish to be men
Once fiercely defiant
Shaken to the core
Hair begins to shrink back
To what came before
Every place we traveled
Doubt began to grow
Faster than the beard
Something had to go
A beard is not an excuse for hate
A stache is not a reason to abhor
What happens now must be fate
For anything more is surely war
Beard away, beard be gone
Facial forests tumble down
Deforestation come upon
The faces of men in the world pretend
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3. |
Didgeridoo Blues
11:28
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Played me a didgeridoo, got the heebie jeebies all night
Played me a didgeridoo, got the heebie jeebies all night
But when I be playin’, it make me feel all right
Given to me by an aborigine man, got the evil inside
Given to me by an aborigine man, got the evil inside
Once the music start to flow, the folk around gotta hide
Learn to breathe forever, play didgeridoo till ya die
Learn to breathe forever, play didgeridoo till ya die
When I be done, Satan come ‘n away we fly
Satan cup me in his hand, mold me inta clay doll
Satan cup me in his hand, mold me inta clay doll
Sen’ me back inta the world, act at his call
See a man playin’, take his soul in ma hand
See a man playin’, take his soul in ma hand
That man don’t know, he got his chance
Take ‘im back to Satan, waitin’ fo’ my reward
Take ‘im back to Satan, waitin’ fo’ my reward
Satan shake his head, throw me in the pit, ah lord
Got me them didgeridoo blues
Neva shoulda played
Now my soul is flayed
Got me them didgeridoo blues
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4. |
Stove Sensations
05:10
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There is a fire inside
It leaps right outta me
A blue hot fire inside
It begs to be set free
And if I have to blink
I pray it’s not my fault
If a dish is placed within
I say it’s not my fault
It cannot be my fault
The dead cold hands of fate
Rub their troubles on me
Filled with all the reckless hate
Of a man who cannot see
Is this my place?
Stoved in such disgrace
So take your troubles and leave
Thrust forward from a late summer’s eve
Now looking out from the glass
Breathes a world unfeeling
Grease bubbling out from the gates
Cries from within are unceasing
Their cries are unceasing
How many men must die
Before we find a cure
Men will always tell a lie
To see a fire be born
And it shan’t be long
Before the fire consumes
And though I sing this song
All will rot in their tombs
Inbred filth is shoveled aside
To the glee of the eyes above
Emotions forfeit, only abide
To those who turn the stove
Is this my place?
Stoved in such disgrace
So take your troubles and leave
Thrust forward from a late summer’s eve
A flame rises higher
And higher
And louder
And richer
Without fault
I see
A fate
Beyond
Nothing
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5. |
Lonely Games
01:37
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Change is a lonely game
Against a repeated refrain
Left naked along the way
So to speak of plans unmade
To scream of whispers soon to fade
So you left me there
With less than a prayer
Time floats vacantly through the air
Imitating her words delayed
In the midst of a man only portrayed
And alone they play
Beside an empty grave
Returning to stay
With the thought of being saved
And along a lonely path
Will not yield to a hopeless wretch
With a dream of death
And you led me there
To face your cocaine stare
Dried drool forms a river through my hair
To scream but be unheard
Or to whisper
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6. |
Parallels
04:34
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And I don’t wanna know
If your love can fulfill
My mind
And if you speak to me
Your words can only be
Of my own design
So I hold you to your word
That your love cannot clearly
Be defined
But you cannot
Leave my side
Tethered by
The bleak confines
Of my own lonely mind
But I can’t
Be free
But you cannot be seen
By those who don’t believe
In your song
Sung to me in a key
Unknown to those who hum
Along
I reach out for your hand
And recoil in the fear that
You’re gone
And I don’t wanna say
If your face is what my mind
Can’t deny
But I don’t know
If it matters anyway
And I won’t hear what they say
If it means my mind is your foe
Hold on
I won’t be long
I hear
Your words form songs
Composed by my lonely mind
Singing of
Desire
But you cannot
Leave my side
Tethered by
The bleak confines
Of my own lonely mind
But I can’t
Be free
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At night, I hear the sirens softly roaring
Underneath a weary eye
In fear, that I may not see the morning
Free from the roaming sky
A smile, bleached white and toothless
Leaks into my blurred sight
And a needle makes no unwanted persecutions
Into the calculating night
But under my skin
Is an ink of its sin
It keeps me staring
In both directions
But I don’t know why
It croons my name
But I don’t know what it was I wanted
Only that it came to me
It’s fate, whose good grace I have exhausted
And the leaves fall from its tree
But I know, as I make the last incision
Somehow it’ll erase my pain
And a dog, mangled beyond description
Lies motionless in the rain
But under my skin
Is an ink of its sin
It screams from within
My last intentions
But I don’t know why
It screams my name
Released from my mind
A sensation divine
A woman shouts foolishly
Through the night
But I don’t know why
It croons my name
But I don’t know why
It screams my name
But I don’t know why
It screams my name
So sweetly
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8. |
Reboot
03:40
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Open, I open my eyes
Before me laid out
A screen’s familiar reprise
If I, If I depress my vice
A memory will fade
No back up will suffice
And I know
This won’t be the last time
And I know
Those thoughts I will never find
Stop
Reboot
Shut down
Your message is no longer astute
Freeze
The hard drive
To my memory laid siege
Hold, I held the key in fear
Of hushed demons within
Their stench has led me here
Fold, I relinquish my hold
On a system and my mind
As the final credits rolled
I don’t know
Which was the first time
I don’t know
If this reason has a rhyme
Stop
Reboot
Shut down
Your message is no longer astute
Freeze
The hard drive
To my memory laid siege
And I never said what I thought was in my heart
I never said what could not be mine
And you spoke words scrambled from the start
But I never thought the events would align
And I never said what I thought could be mine
I never said what wouldn’t be yours
I never knew if you would be fine
And I never said anything more
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One fall day
Cars squeal the rain
Boredom led astray
From a restless refrain
She uttered familiar words
From a gin soaked glass
She was undeterred
And spoke without a mask
But she dropped from the sky
On the wings of a flaming zeppelin
In the midst of a bedlam gone awry
Bristling clarity set in
They ran through
The exit of a gift shop
In each mind brewed
An unspoken rule
A dude and a girl
Look away from the law
A tale unfurls
Impulse burned raw
She looked like a firefly in the night
And flew with the shifting winds
Created by the thought that they might
Not be alone in sin
But there were those
Who stared from behind
Rusted glass and stone
Of electric design
Even as she leaves
Her old life behind
Thoughts just conceived
Can never be denied
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That? Bloomington, Illinois
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Eric Novak: vocals, reeds, organ, lyrics
Ayethaw Tun:
guitars
Jonas Wightman: guitars
Ethor: keyboards
Ryan Donlin: basses, guitars
Madz: violin
Abby Lyons: vocals
Derek McAnally: drums, percussion
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