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The Influx Of Brains
00:24
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Baited Breath
01:25
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Please call and say come over when you're done with your homework, and you wanna come play
I'll try and play it cool while my heart is racing like it wants to get out
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ooh ooh
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ah
It's like a Friday evening with a weakest promise of chocolate ice cream
When we can get together, it's like candy confection, my favorite thing
So long
So sad
When you're gone
Oh, come back
We'll sing like this
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ooh ooh
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ah
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I go to the liquor store
Run out and go back for more
And in the evening when I leave the bar
I stop at the drive through Liquor store
Yeah
I got good genes in me
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A Wonderful Idea
00:54
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5. |
Lovely Mathematician
03:08
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she spoke that sweet language
killed me cemetery dead
she spoke that sweet language
killed me cemetery dead
she spoke that sweet language
killed me cemetery dead
now the vibrations from her tongue still bounce through my head
she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
now my body’s left me writhing freely, making me sweat
I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating constant of her equation
she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
now my two-beat pulse is racing out of syncopation
I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation
she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
now my satellite’s in orbit with copernican spin
I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation
I said a lovely mathematician’s got me factored in
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6. |
Casper
03:15
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Down
Looped sidewalk
Sink
Up
Mad flailing
Cosmic leak
How you feel now? (Girl, what’s happening?)
Out
Side closed windows
Hummingbirds drink
Fer-
-Mented berries
To test class glass
How you feel now? (Girl, what’s happening?)
Dues ex machina
Trillions of hosts
Strutting
Down the road
I was not a friendly ghost
I was not a friendly ghost
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Julia, on her prayer stand
and she’s feeling disdain
and the troll where the doll was
is what the doll became
to understand
a man
has got to find a place for plants
and he waters them and then
he grows his own legs
she keeps asking where the door goes
well, dear, it opens a wall
go and open it right now
reveal the great hall
let loose the hose that knows where all the words, they go
the point of this speech
the sequence of events is not coincidence
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8. |
Hope & Water
02:50
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I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills
Temporarily relieve all of my ills
I need a tempo I can dance to
So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you
Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go
I think we should be perfectly honest
Each of us has a little dirt on us
All we need’s a little hope and water
To clean up myself after my self slaughter
Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go
All these drugs
Never make you disappear
They just make me smile
Through my time here
I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills
Temporarily relieve all of my ills
I need a tempo I can dance to
So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you
Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go
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9. |
Your Personal Number
01:05
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Today, Satan!
03:09
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Some folks say
Not today
Lord Satan, weep
Cause I got away
By luck's design
I've won this time
Fuck you, Satan
Not today
But I won't
Live life that way
Biding my time
'till Satan takes yours and mine
No, I'll make a stand
Make a fist with my hand
Fuck you, Satan
Today!
Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Satan, Today
When you unfurl your wings
I'm sorry to say that you're just not as scary as you think,
Satan
Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Satan, Today
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11. |
The Devil Can’t Dance
03:57
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sweet is the day, when you pass it away
with your hips and your thighs and your feet and your legs
she surely can’t dance, but she surely can sway
what it’s really about is the lips on her face
it’s a sin, girl
it’s a sin, girl
when you sway, oh
it’s a sin
I do not know where she learned it all from
her daddy’s side or maybe her mom
sweet Jesus knows what I’m talking about
it’s the devil’s work when she comes around
it’s a sin, girl
it’s a sin, girl
when you sway, oh
it’s a sin
I heard the truth in an old country song
the preacher’s not right if his wife is all wrong
the devil can’t dance, but she surely can shake
the devil can’t dance, but she surely can sway
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Honey
02:28
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I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got some news
I’ve got a handmade shelter, the fire shows my moods
So, let’s get cozy
Your secret, show me
We’ll set it loose
Leena, feel the beat
Know where your center’s at
The fire takes your feet
Tiny crop circles form
Shadows, dust, and light
Play with my senses torn
Leena, feel the beat
Know where my center’s at
I can surely lead you on to the commotion
Leena, feel the beat
I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got no blues
We need no man-made currency to stock our rooms
So, let’s get cozy
Your secret, show me
We’ll set it loose
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A Wonderful Idea
00:44
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14. |
A Walk In The Park
01:59
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Lucy plants herself amongst the soil and roots
‘Till she knows the flora/fauna by name
The stickbugs in the leaves know what’s carried via breeze
And shiver as they hear her name
It’s Lucy
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, no no no
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth
When you made me fall and scrape my knee
I just wiped the blood, that’s how love can be
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, no no no
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth
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Becky, Go Home
03:26
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Becky, don't you know that's not the way that its done
Russell’s chasing after Moses with his old shotgun
and Becky
Cant you choose the one you love?
Terry’s not an honest man
He's stealing from the trucks at work
and Becky, please
Go home
You've been sleeping on the couch for days
Drinking all the beer and saying
You ain’t got no reason
you ain’t got no reason
you ain’t got no reason to go home
Sister liz is out there telling tales
She's at grandmas and she's got her on the telephone calling Russell saying,
“Russell go and get your gun.
You won’t believe what our sweet little becky has gone and done!”
and Becky, please
Go home
You've been sleeping on the couch for days
Drinking all the beer and sayin’
Rusty’s kicked Dilaudids
He's calling on the phone and he's crying in my ear, saying, “Man, I need my Becky
Man, I need my Becky
Man, I need my sweet becky at hooooome!”
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Eyes Forward
03:24
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I woke up on Sunday morning
Tempted by the thought of sleeping in
But then you hooked your arm around me
To whisper please,
“Make eggs for me”
And so I did
With eyes forward
You snuck up on me in the kitchen
Moved by scarlet thoughts of lips to lips
And when you wrapped your arms around me,
I said, “Please, set the table for me,
And call the kids”
With eyes forward
And when you wonder why
Makes me wonder how
All the memories we buried under the ground
Found their way back to town
After the sun has left
No light behind to reflect on
All the memories we left back eating our ground
In that tidied town
I won't find work as a pilot
Nor build a house or dig a grave
Loving you's fine work
And we're so good at doing our jobs almost every day
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17. |
Have No Fear
00:34
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18. |
Chaos In The Yard
03:18
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The copper pipes went missing with the chaos in the yard
The cops they are a’ chasing someone; from the back, I saw
Flashing lights and footsteps that I hear as fingers point
Baggies found on wet grass prompt, “Put your hands up on the car”
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Put your hands up on the car
Snowflakes are a’ falling on the SUV outside
I see they are all melting in familiar pop time
I locked my doors and windows, and I thought that I was safe
Blocked that spice of life, variety, the human race
Here’s the dream catcher your neighbor left behind
Here’s to the LSD that showed that painting’s smile
Here’s to the chaos in my mind and in the yard
Here’s to the ones downstairs, more susceptible than I
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Put your hands up on the car
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the zombie
apocalypso is the song of this prudish
melody we’re calling “God”
and all his daughters
are conjuring up six pagan dogs with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headdresses on her
and all the muddy
rivers of this vital Earth are over teeming
with six corpses giving birth to awful armies
rape the world and giving head to the master, all the dead look simply understated in his arms
and I was certain to be the wander
certain certain certain certain
certain to be the wander
certain certain certain certain
certain to be the one
certainly the wandering eye of 666
keep me abreast, keep me abreast, keep me abreast of the
zombie
apocalypso is the song
of the prudish
melody we’re singing, God
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Shiny Red Nothing Holland, Michigan
Embark on a sonic sojourn. Surf waves of joyous, freaky indie rock. Make a left turn into a an offbeat township in the
American south of an alternate dimension, & then find yourself stoned & a little drunk, peeking into the side offices of Hell’s halls for the giddy thrill of it. Become possessed with an intimate knowledge of how Shiny Red Nothing necessitates their own genre.
Blackgrass.
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