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Portrait of the Artist
02:56
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Portrait of the Artist as a self-indulgent, open seeping wound
All his words are out of tune
Portrait of the singer as a ringer on the company softball team
And he’s living in a dream
He suffers for his art, and he’s making sure you’re suffering as well
And your life’s a living hell
Still pre-postironic/ Gin and tonic/ t’s the way he wants to live
Rock and Roll Never Forgives
Dreams don’t last very long….
(We’ll get back to this later)
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Harper Valley F.M.L.
04:05
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Oh the sky won’t reach you/ But a child can teach you
That the truth will free you/ When it’s finally done with you
Oh the stars can’t feel you/ Or the envy in you
Can’t see themselves through/ The same eyes you do
But fame can’t free you/ From the fear that beats you
Cuz The fire that eats you / Won’t die with that fuel
The glossy magazines may one day show your face
But still you’ll crave a food no one will ever taste
This world is very old
And we are more alone than you’ve ever known
Torn between the terror of and longing to find fame
Only see the air between The bars that make your cage
The world is very old
And we are more alone than you’ve ever known
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Evolution Baseball
02:14
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Bitter pills/ The truth comes on strong
Better take two/ They don’t last long
This is evolution baseball
Stephen Jay/ You know he’s not wrong
(You can’t find)
Can’t find the time
Can’t find it’s mind
Punctuation comes on quite strong
Equilibrium won’t last long
It’s just evolution baseball
One bad swing and we’re all gone
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I was born an American dreamer
And I live the American Dream
With pills to keep me level
And my eyes glued to a screen
I was born an American dreamer
And I’ll die an American Death
With a rolling bag behind me
And a pistol to my head
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I’m the True Defective/ I’m the pure invective
I’m the Marvelous Mr. Malaise
Model Citizen/ Zero Discipline
The Marvelous Mr. Malaise
Overeducated and self-medicated
The Marvelous Mr. Malaise
An acquired taste/ Infectious human waste
No, Isaac… The world is my ashtray*
*Based on a true story
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Glacier Races
03:45
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Nice view from here/ empty quarts of beer
The blocks are set/ The track’s too wet/ To run
The pistol fires/ The runners fall to mud
They tied our laces
It’s how we keep these snail paces
So take your places
It’s an afternoon at the glacier races
Spinning from the turn/Apex the curve
The checkered flag/ waves but no one wins
And to the blocks/ to runners start again
They tied our laces…
Sell the latest outrage
Inaugurate the new dark age
We can never win/ We won’t give in
We just keep on pretending
Sell the latest outrage
Inaugurate the new dark age
We can never win/ Too dumb to give in
This will be no happy ending
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Memo from Turner Street
03:11
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I How was where you said you were?
Days and miles are just a blur
To watch the rusting of a dying land
Memo from Turner Street it read…
Enured to the beauty of it all
What great compromise is this?
Two bitter hearts in the same chest
Maybe there’s no more America
In truth there may have never been
Enured to the beauty of it all
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SlowCarFast
03:37
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Faded, fated, long awaited
Second annual cancellation
This is it, my only chance
I will drive my slow car fast
And ride away…
Out of gas or fiery crash
I don’t care how long I last
I won’t let myself be passed
I will drive my slow car fast
And ride away…
Far away from here
Watch the rear-view mirror
The past just disappears
Too afraid for the fear
To fade away…
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Truman's Delusion
02:23
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Where’d they hide the cameras?
Always know where I have been
If everyone is watching me
Why can’t I see them
I DO NOT CONSENT
Where’d they hide the microphones?
So many fillings in my teeth
I don’t seem to know my friends
But everyone knows me
Where’d they hide the transmitter?
Is it buried in my head?
The world’s behind on royalties
Where’s my fucking check?
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Alumni Magazine Superstar
No one knows quite who you are
You look so good from afar
So impressive down on paper
Lay right down into the snow
Freezing’s not such a bad way to go
Just like falling asleep, they say…
This world is never-ending
Swiped my ID exactly 3 times
Password’s in and I’m online
Everything is going fine
EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE!!!!
This work is so fulfilling
Surround the office with suicide nets
Jump from the window
Bounce back to your desk
Maybe life is just another test
Passing on to another test
This work is so fulfilling
Emotional casualty you’d say
Moving onto another day
Thinking it might be OK
This life is never-ending
Staring up into the sky
Drowning’s not such a bad way to die
Passed out by the oceanside
While the waves crash through your bitter eyes…
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Someday You Will Fall
02:48
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Beware of clarity/ May not like what you see
Unfiltered memories/ Can tear you all apart
You can run or crawl/But someday you will fall
Beware of charity/ To give or to receive
They who wear the rings/ Who pull the strings
You can have it all/ But someday you will fall
You can run or crawl/ But someday you will fall
Beware of Certainty/Your facts from your beliefs
What you think you know/ can hurt you most
Try To make sense of it all/But someday you will fall
One day you may scale the wall… Between us all… And stand so tall… And hear the call… A King of All… But someday you will fall
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Dreams... Don't
02:20
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Dreams don’t last very long/ Dreams won’t take you that far…
The secret to not giving up/ Is keeping yourself dumb enough
Or making yourself numb enough / To face the day
Don’t talk about making it/ Just worry about faking it
You just end up hating it/But there is no other way
We just want you to be yourself/ But could you be less of yourself
This can’t be good for your health/ So just face another day
The present choice parylizes/ Nostalgia anesthesizes
The future terrorizes / But there is no other way
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A Fiercely Independent Recording Collective, Studio and Label based in Baltimore Maryland.
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