1. |
Try Hard
03:56
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Lonely opposition
Like a cautious melody I feel
Livid, tempered, seasoned
Nothing beats a felony I have a
Crazy, simple delusion
Like I never wanted anything
At all ends, it all ends, it's all ended
You want fire?
You'll never get lighter
Tied to the sun
like a star shaped liar
Coping with losses
and teenage bosses
Until the teet drops
Faster than you tossed it
I'm not a dreamer
I'm an unbeliever
So put me on your list of people who can scream her
I'm a fighter
a cryer
a liar
and a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
New wave people need it
Like a mother fucking lolipop and
I know I'm not the best one
For the understated dodgy rock but
Hear me out it's a poison
and you need it too
You need it too
You want fire?
You'll never get lighter
Tied to the sun
like a star shaped liar
Coping with losses
and teenage bosses
Until the teet drops
Faster than you tossed it
I'm not a dreamer
I'm an unbeliever
So put me on your list of people who can scream her
I'm a fighter
a cryer
a liar
and a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Keep it up
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Keep it up
You want fire?
You'll never get lighter
Tied to the sun
like a star shaped liar
Coping with losses
and teenage bosses
Until the teet drops
Faster than you tossed it
I'm not a dreamer
I'm an unbeliever
So put me on your list of people who can scream her
I'm a fighter
a cryer
a liar
and a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
Yeah I'm a try-hard
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2. |
Cocaine Shame
02:34
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Introducing capitalism
To the unsuspecting man
with the children out of reach
so you can turn off the engine fan
And when the water - isn't finished
You get a Communism Hoe-Down
with some cole slaw spinnach
I'm a dancer
A lancer
An old-timey prancer
But I won't take no for an answer
If you think you can ever count on me
Count your blessings
'cause the moon is coming down
and it's bringing second-guessings
Tylenol on my brain
Tylenol in my heart
My lungs are filled with cocaine
But my intestines are filled with shame
Defining what is cold and what is hot
isn't all that hard to do
You take the good and the bad
and mix it in a stew
Give or take, all the things that you've seen
Make a microwave fridge
look like a macrowade spleen
I'm a liar
A tryer
and a washer disher dryer
But I don't give a shit about your crying
When the world goes under
You can drive to Australia
You asshole
(I'm outta here)
Tylenol on my brain
Tylenol in my heart
My lungs are filled with cocaine
But my intestines are filled with shame
Tylenol on my brain
Tylenol in my heart
My lungs are filled with cocaine
But my intestines are filled with shame
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3. |
Rodeo
03:08
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Whiplash, turns to dust
Magic gypsy calenders running to bust
Barking at a dog is harder than it looks
Rodeo damnation
is in town tonight
Feel good animation
leaves us
(keep it up)
Yard sales, bargin deals
Counter-culture losers don't get how it feels
Writing up a resume to learn how to squeal
Rodeo damnation
is in town tonight
Feel good animation
leaves us
Whiplash, turn to dust
Calenders, running bust
Barking dog, harder looks
Reservations, gravy books
Gunsmoke, train wheels
Yard sales, bargin deals
Counter-culture, how it feels
Resumes, learn to squeal
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4. |
Fusion Candle
02:36
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I fear the world's gone dark
I look along the mountain range, I see the land's mark
Tonight, I'll see the world end brightly
Along the angels move so lightly
and I will end my life
Tonight I feel them open right
For me to end it all
I know the answer
This world is too much for me to handle
I hold an empty fusion candle
For love - its weakness, the land of the free
is held back by lies and locks on the leisure
and I have something to say
This world will never pray
For a demon - with no name
I know it's the truth
I fear the world's gone dark
I look along the mountain range, I see the land's mark
Tonight, I'll see the world end brightly
Along the angels move so so lightly
and I will end my life
Tonight, I'll make them lie
To end the world is my right
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5. |
Interpolation
04:32
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Give it up, giving out
The speedy man always slows down
I have a Hibachi in the colour red
Give me money, or complaints
Either one will be worthless
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
Have a glass of wine, then define what it says
I don't have any patience for no newborn newly-weds
If there was a hole where my face was
I'd probably name it Sam
Unfortunately there's no way to detect
If the price was ever right to begin with, in fact
I've got a secret, it involves killing goats
Nothing to boast, nothing to coast OKAY GO
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
You're no Sega Saturn but it'll have to do
I guess I'll just have to destroy things to make room
Death is near, apparent and inherit
Brothers and sisters don't make very good parents
Give me complaints, or give me money (GIVE ME MONEY)
Probably the former, I could really use a buddy
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
I don't need no interpolation
I don't have to see the future to tell you
It's a damn shame we're so disconnected
Because if we weren't then I could tell you
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6. |
Granger
04:01
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The psychopath in the curly dress
is making lots of destruction with his swirly hands
and Kory The Man versus Lakyn The Loser
The cards come together and they're never too loose, err
I make this land turn on its head
and South Park runs in an infinite land
and there's an Egg Man on a Gameboy Color
and I understated, I underplated this
No, Fence
"Haha", says Super Kay
Tiny and ready to play
When they're never going back
Turning their clocks to the ones that laugh
and when the monitor points to the file cabinet
The man in the crown will load up his Work In Progress
The car isn't out of fuel, it's just wooden
and on the wall
The tiger and Lady Liberty know themselves to a brawl
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7. |
Fire Squid
03:50
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FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
FIRE SQUID
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8. |
Saturn
02:55
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I've been alone for so long
That I forgot what it's like to be awake
I believed in a fairy land in my dreams
Where I was the air, and the air was fake
The lights are on and on
and dreams are made of war
But fantasy is far from over
Her eyes are a quirky lore
I wish I wasn't alive to see this happen
to what I call my home
I wanted to be dead forever
But then I'd have to be my own
The nights are on and on
and dreams are meant to die
But reality is never real
and sleeping dogs still lie
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9. |
Remote Dancer (Fresh)
03:21
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Micro-sonic ashtrays
Explosive decay
Give a lover to your mother
Free weekend getaways
Put out the chainsaw
Let a hobo use it
Show the world what it's like
to be a train set
Marking up prices
and holding guarantees
I don't sell out, I sell in
I don't mellitus, insulin
Capital choke-hold, we know
Party of three I got a load
Nothing beats the best
When you're expecting morse code
I'm fresh
Like a pirate in a courtroom
Keeping up appearances
but never let you through
I'm fresh
I'm a remote dancer
Find a new girlfriend
Give her a chance, sir
Open road clinics
for superior cynics
Take a shot for the road
Shoot the load while you're low
Talking up storms
and whispering sunsets
Putting up a barrier
to shield the brain cleft
Deafening the old
and cleaning up the new
Forfetting the gold
and spilling what you spew
Michael has a wish
his wish is to be a fish
So give him what he dished
(YO, JOHNNY)
I'm fresh
Like a chef in an oven
Grilling off to the sounds
of refridgerators running
I'm fresh
I'm a remote dancer
Fine a homeless man
Give him a foreclosure
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10. |
Halothane
02:48
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Defying the laws of nature is an easy task
First you varnish life to nothing, then you finish last
Creating what you destroy? There's a simple solution
Make nothing at all, that's my professional conclusion
Halothane
Halothane
Halothane
(Halothane, Halothane, Halothane)
WARNING: HALOTHANE LEVELS CRITICAL
Devaluing your home owner's property? I wish I were you
That way I could just weasel my way out like a goody four shoes
Turn around the market, make yourself some change
Hoping for the best, won't get you any range
Halothane
Halothane
Halothane
(Halothane, Halothane, Halothane)
(Halothane, Halothane, Halothane)
Halothane
Halothane
Halothane
(Halothane...)
(Halothane...)
(Halothane...)
(Halothane...)
(Halothane...)
(Halothane...)
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11. |
Telephone Bill
03:54
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Breaking stones
with your long john bones
Giving up prostitutes
on the microwave loans
Taking shimmy jimmies in
on a Saturday night
Coasting on good luck
with the facts on a Lite-Brite
Hold the phone
Someone's calling in from Rome
Gotta take out the flash
Before the camera moans
In a minute with a priest
Turned sideways
Approaching high altitudes
on the Cali bays
I see
The lights on me
I give 'em what I want
and they take it away from me
Wishing I wasn't here anymore
Wishing I wasn't here anymore
Keeping up
with the nearest intersection
Timing all of your food
to your kitchen's ovulation
Beating a dead horse's ass
Until it's bleeding new jokes
Making Monty Python choke
I'm an unusual man with unusual taste
If you cook up something good
I'll make sure it goes to waste
Now about that loan
It'll cost you three pints
of wine
Interjected with some full blooded crime
Wishing I wasn't here anymore
Wishing I wasn't here anymore
Breaking stones
with your long john bones
Giving up prostitutes
on the microwave loans
Taking shimmy jimmies in
on a Saturday night
Coasting on good luck
with the facts on a Lite-Brite
Living on the edge
Living on the edge
Living on the edge
Living on the edge
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12. |
Grandfather
06:06
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I turned to them in the sky
and I asked "where you going?"
They looked at me and smiled
and said, "where I belong"
Go with the flow
Where did they leave me all to the world?
In its many places...
A flow isn't there unless something is flying
and a river can't remain without a rise
Turn to where they stand, and I will make it all together
But now I have no guiding hands to call me
on the lies to never, I shall fry
Grandfather, why did you leave me to myself and the world?
Grandfather, why did you leave us all in hell?
I turned to them and said that I knew he was
But I really didn't know I just wanted to pretend like I did
Feeling so ready
Turn the gates open sideways and see where they want to go
I know that they hear me scream for his name
To let me know where to go
Tired of these other false prophets leading me to shame
and if I had a say in the matter I would never have let him dig his own grave, no
Grandfather, why did you leave this world alone the way?
Grandfather, why did you leave me with everything?
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