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i am an optimist, you are a pessimist
we coexist all the same
you think things are going south
i think they will go north
but in the end we’ll both get hurt
cuz that’s not how the world works
you have ambitions of conquering nations
and molding them to your aim
you think that others will bend to your every whim
they will join in on your game
but that’s not how the world works
that’s not how the world works
one day you will crash and burn flat on your face
but the world will continue to turn
let me enlighten you on a few things
the promised land ain’t real
you can’t get back what you have lost
that’s not how the world works
you may be a pious one
worshipping the sun or a merciful god in the sky
all the universe is endless and infinite
our memories will never die
but that’s not how the world works
no, that’s not how the world works
there is no source of energy
that doesn’t increase entropy
sorry that the universe isn’t working out how it should
let me enlighten you on a few things
you can’t please everyone
some people are just total jerks
that’s not how the world works
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2. |
Institute of No Fun
02:32
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why have you come to the institute of no fun?
we are so uninteresting and it’s no fun
we sit around solely devoted to an absence of fun
lacking all purpose and just getting high
walk but don’t run to the institute of no fun
come talk about mundane events for no reason
we sit around telling each other nothing profound
boring each other and our dues are so high
who’ve i become in the institute of no fun?
why bring a gun to the institute of no fun?
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3. |
Child Star Glass House
01:05
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comin’ back to the raging sea
cuz you know it’s bringin’ out the best in me
[unintelligible] so strange to me
but I like bein’ fly with the frequency
you know what i’m easy, yeah
live another life between my love for the cheese
but you know I couldn’t make it to your album release
well I couldn’t find the time to come outta the sea
but I thought your magnum opus was a previous piece
once again you’re violatin’ my boundaries
get out of the roller rink you’re stiflin’ me
why you askin’ for a revenge fantasy
complain about you and i’m wastin’ my energy
so i’m done
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High School
03:04
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i’m intangible till there’s nothing left
i’m impenetrable just like the rest
for mean girls with skin to protect
and innocents trying to connect to you
unattainable real estate inspect
unintelligible real and direct
cuz high school will leave you a wreck
and fade away till there’s nothing left of you
danger on the ground (you are saying)
piled up ego in my mouth (all that waiting)
i should seek some decent help (was for nothing)
i love you cuz i hate myself (but a paper)
but you’re so good at poking through (you’re so bad at)
i think the impact turns on you (your one function)
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Total Attention
02:40
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it’s summer, where are you going?
i’m going to maine, to texas, to california
i gotta ask, what’s out there?
well, i don’t know, but i’m pretty sure it’s more interesting than you
mutating bird in an endless sky
i’ve already lived way too many lives
in one lifetime i’ve seen it all
no one’s gonna rescue you
everything is psychedelic, everything is a bad trip
no one’s gonna rescue you
your eyelid movie’s gonna run out of film and it’s gonna go….
mutating bird in an endless sky
i’ve already lived way too many lives
and you’ve been moping around your sad little stall
wishing you could see it all
it’s winter, where are you goin?
goin’ down down down my little hole
and i won’t come out
i cannot come out till i’m in control
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Hangover Cure
03:11
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hangover cure
canopy in the rocks we gave to her
hangover cure
there she sits with the cameras rolling
and i feel like aligning pleasantry
the moment passes and it’s misery
we can be the kings of consciousness
we can make our minds an omnibus
we can celebrate the two of us
and so get separated by condition
finessing fire from the television
with all the pain of creeping mission
destroying vessels of your portraiture
removing ring stains from the furniture
colliding bodies of the future
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It's OK to Lose Friends
01:04
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it’s ok to lose your friends when you’re the antichrist
it was a secret at first but now you’re gonna dance all night
you will follow the fool, you’ll find him in the mystery bubble garden
you don’t need this old therapy, you need a revolution
it’s ok to lose your friends sometimes
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Medication for Satan
05:05
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no pepto bismol, no vitamin d
no melatonin or fluoxetine
no progestrogen or ketamine
here in the house of god we only take placebo
i don’t ever feel bad
i won’t ever be sad
here in the house of god we are the super ego
i don’t ever feel bad
i won’t ever be sad
as long as he is with me here
-.-
A vast technology opens up in the landscape, melting ice with the outer worlds and inner visions. Domesticated denizens of the archetypal machine, the leviathan, like a ufo at the bottom of the ocean
The dance of reality far beyond our understanding. How can things that can be one way also be another? Stoking the flame of uncertainty is no way to live. And so foreign objects inevitably make their way into the mind, declaring themselves the lingua franca, the pinnacle of reality, or whatever - seventeen eons worth, each mask replacing a decomposing mask until no face lies beneath.
And this is the state of things, and to deny it is its own mask, a mask which leads only towards death.
In wanting to become a part of something, we cripple ourselves
we dreamers, distracted by our dreams, our dramas, continue to hack at egresses, until the frame collapses around us, leaving no exit
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Monkey Heart
02:26
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i dream of monkey heart
cancer on film
lapsis conditional
half had his fill
i dream of iron lung
ivy and silk
captured by heaven’s own
captured in pills
clam
rock
oh
doctor my
monkey heart
is falling apart
trees on the other end
they look like kids
fading away from their
only parents
dancing undoubtedly
already dead
mourn possibility
all in my head
glam
rock
oh
doctor my
monkey heart
is coming apart
my monkey heart
is falling apart
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Grab Me By the Noose
01:25
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hit me in the face
put me in my place
grab me by the noose
string me to a tree
you can watch me fall
i can take the abuse
hit me in the balls
grab me by my hair and punch me in the head
tuck me into bed and tell me you don’t care
pull my trousers down and snap my underwear
hurt me cuz you can
you know you want to!
grab me by my neck and stab me in the back
throw me off the overpass
stab me in the prick or you can cut it off
play the stupid lick
play a different song
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Interstaller
02:24
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interstellar baby (comin’ at you!)
interesting lady (she’ll give you two!)
super hot body (that’s what it’s for!)
want her rock solid (she’ll give you more!)
kiss him on his face (that’s what it’s for!)
super hot body (she’ll give you more!)
can’t get just one (she’ll give you two!)
interstellar ladies (comin’ at you!)
interstaller comet (comin’ at you!)
headed for the planet (what do you do?)
ride a comet tail (into the sun!)
baby you’re my asteroid (havin’ some fun!)
lead him through a wormhole (WHOAAAA)
lead him to a black hole (WOOOOOOO)
lead him through hyperspace (bbbzzzZZZZwwTTTTwwwwwwTTT)
lead him through cyberspace (100100111001001001110110101)
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Now or Never
06:28
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i tell you when i get up, when i’m gonna go to sleep again
a word never hurt, you know, alone inside your parent’s home
never thought i’d see her go from the clouds blowin’ in the holy land
i thought i was a holy man, but i guess i’m not as much as
go too far, it’s now or never
be too much, we’ll be together
i can see it last forever
i feel like i’ll lose her, just cause i know her
i feel like a loser, just cause i know her
i feel like i’ll lose her, like a four leaf clover
be too much, we’ll be together
i can see it last forever
well you could change your mind if you don’t like what you find
walk off into the blue, well, good luck to you
throw my heart at the wall and watch it stick
i feel like a loser, just cause i know her
i feel like i’ll lose her, just cause i know her
i’ll feel like a loser when the night is over
i feel like i’ll lose her, like a four leaf clover
go too far, it’s now or never
be too much, we’ll be together
i can see it last forever
in as much as we are ever
what to do but fall forever
still confused but i know better
i can’t see it last forever
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Good Ideas Factory
03:39
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morning egg
wheel of cheese and veggie strips
cooked to please
community living in the factory
scrub the pans
don’t forget your morning dance
say a prayer and wash your hands
of the past
you won’t regret it
sun is up
better get your trousers up
go to work and serve the lord
be a part of something bigger
take a bath in the big industrial vat
you’re a twig, you need some fat
fatten up your third eye
good ideas
i am full of good ideas
they are coming out my ears
coming out to thee
evening egg
half a dozen from the hens at your cousin’s plot next door
with you in the factory
her room smells like the farm where you grew up
but no harm to sheep (baa baa)
you two would look cute together
as a holy sacrificial lamb
my children must be made clean
and free of all their silly dreams
or they will never follow me to the factory
good ideas
i am full of good ideas
they are coming out my ears
coming out to thee
to thee!!!!
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and if heaven’s birds were falling right outside your walls
if it didn’t really hurt you would you notice it at all?
movement of mind
a little mind over matter
nothing matters to your mind
(got a little box of books right next to me
containing everything i ever learned written down
put em in there so i don’t even have to remember anything)
what’s this? extra large jumbo fries on the royal barge
and i know it’s for me
(add it to yer little “story”)
highlight
the highlight of my week
was asking you the time
(it’s two o clock)
it’s gonna rain
if heaven’s birds were singing would you sit around
with your field recorder out
there’s a car no there’s a truck passing
ruined the take
you could be like this
what’s so bad about bein’ the way i already am?
are you kidding yourself you little shit? you walk around with confidence
bout to get flipturned upside down when the earth turns the right way up
(how do they know which way is up?)
suicide
takes away all your attitude
could be good
and you should if you want to
and i know you could be
so bad
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Men of Games
02:41
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at the turn of the new millennium, men will spring into action
packing their bags and heading off on an aeroplane
there they will meet their confidants
and manifest what they really want
in power plays
the central organizing force
of the men of games
due to our endless obfuscation, no one knows what’s inside us
are we from outer space or are we just human brains
if you could just be someone different
more than a gear stuck in the system
full of shame
would you be down in killing fields
for the men of games
men of games
we travel across the usa
everyone digs the games we play
we are men of games
men of games
we’re flying across the world today
everyone plays the games we make
we are men of games
you probably feel empty and powerless
and nothing you do will alter this
and all of that love and happiness
just brings you pain
cuz no one’s watching over you
but the men of games
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Minotaurs
00:58
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my heart stopped upon the dozenth donut
and i fall in a white flame
surrounding me are minotaurs
those keepers of the maze
they brought their dads
the reeds become enlightened
they enter the house
start knocking over artifacts
and half lacquered nightstands
and smashing stained glass windows
and scratching the floors
and poisoning the well
i taste the sting of everything
and all my furniture
once perfectly arranged
is rearranged
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locked out of the mycelium, these spores do nothing else but
listen to the hate within them, crawl into the head within, learn a fear of failure
you never heard the b side? you never heard the b side?
i’m in a house that’s full of teenagers who think they know more about music than me
she has new legs
they run down the beach like eggs
no one can catch up to her
she has a made up culture they don’t have
locked out of the proscenium, blood freezes at 32 degrees
do you think they wouldn’t call for the elimination of every race except for one?
you never save the plastic? you never save the plastic?
listen to the child who screams out the meaning of life that you always pretend not to hear
wane wane
wanettaiyo
riyu ga arimasu
ashi o sageru
she has nice legs
they run like her mouth, clean shaved
all her vices on display
and the songs we like she’ll never play
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Kiss the Fates
02:43
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I threw away the esoteric notebooks
I’m done with tarot cards and stars and little boxes
I’m removing every word that ends in -agram
I’m tryna figure out who the fuck I am!
I’m no bowl
I’m just a hole
I’m no hole
I play no role, yeah
Anarchy has too many rules
All my friends are little fascists in the making
When will you learn that less is more?
If you don’t want them to rule you why don’t you just ignore them?
I’m a hole
I play no role
I’m no role
I’m in control of it!
Smashing my head against the wall so I can feel it changing
I’m removing every word that ends in -ism
I’m tryna figure out who the fuck I isn’t!
You think that we’re all different, because we look so different
But we’re all acting exactly the same
Isn’t that worse?
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose??
Doesn’t that make you more of what you criminalize??
Doesn’t that make you less of a human being??
What did you really want???
What are you really after???
Who are you??????
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Around Around
00:32
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this is the way my head goes
around around, around around
this is the way my tail goes
around around, around around
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Social Darwing
04:30
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when the waiter brings you the wine you want
but the bottle breaks in the restaurant
was the service fine? was the atmosphere okay?
will you let it linger in the space behind your face?
when you’re all alone and there’s no one there
when your god is dead and there’s no one there
why do you lie with your back to the wall?
no contact with the outside
you’re too cool to even think at all
is this what it’s come to, betas in the chat?
bullies in the basement talking about math
where are all their offspring reaping what they sow?
where are all the real ones who just know?
when you host a party with all your friends
will you be authentic or just pretend?
are you even trying to engage in conversation
or are all these people just another decoration?
so when you’re all alone in your lonely room
are you in the abbey or in the tomb?
why do you lie curled up in a ball?
no contact with the outside
it’s too cruel to even think at all
this is what it’s come to, newbies in the chat
bullies in the basement talking about crap
where are all their offspring reaping what they sow?
where are all the real ones who just know?
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Queen of Falling Stars
03:42
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this apology is inadequate
but it’s the least i could say
all that i’ve said will float away
you did not need to hear it all
i thought you were endless
with a fear of fire in your heart
this apology is inadequate
for what i said to you, queen of stars!!!!!!!!!
there is no right way to fall
we are always falling
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my soul is heavy in the moonlight
weighed down by stones of its own design
why can’t i be happy in the normal way
a little bit of caramel goes a long way
a tiny salamander on the stair
bag full of books with pugnacious spines
you will be fine
if you open up to somebody you can trust
(that is what you said to me)
after twenty-seven years of studying
my system cannot possibly fail
why can’t you just love me in the normal way
and keep yourself sequestered from my unholy shame
if you can figure it out
there’s nothing to cry about
there is no pleasure no pain
there is no loss only gain
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For Your Heaviest Days
08:31
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fading light, lying awake
let your worries float into space
forget all the trouble that happened today
there’s no reason, no reason to stay
here’s a little number for your heavy days
here’s a little prayer for your heavy days
fading light, dying away
let your insides fall into place
and in this crazy world, there’s nothing left to say
don’t say a word, open the gate
here’s a river running for your heavy days
here’s a child laughing for your heavy days
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Fomosurfer Lowell, Massachusetts
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