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The Devil (XV)
03:54
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Wine, wine embrace
Teeth as red as your face,
as red as your face
I'm asking you to look the other way
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
Be careful 'cause the devil wants to get you too
Time, time to taste,
the sweat of a poorly run race,
the sweat on my face
I'm asking you to run the other way
(run run run the other way)
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
I hope the devil doesn't get you
I hope the devil doesn't get you too
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Anaphylactic Shock
02:52
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you never thought it through
you're not the thinking type
bit off more than you could chew
in turn, the world swallows you
now you've gone and done it
you're really gonna pay this time
you wont think anything until the dogs have your scent and there's a spotlight in your eyes
you never thought it through
you're not the thinking type
bit off more than you could chew
in turn the world swallowed you
hands behind your head
placing you under arrest for felonies inconceivably evil
accusations seep through porous wood and spread around the neighborhood
your confession was signed and sealed before your arrival
oscillations ring out in your ears,
pumping malice through your troubled lungs -
a spinning top that toppled off trembling legs
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Turning
03:38
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Come out wherever you are
let's not pretend
there is no secret handshake
wolves in sheep skin
What virtues have you kept and how do you account for them?
How do you tuck your children in and wash yourself clean?
Come out wherever you are
we've seen your face
the black and pitiless gaze
the number on your sleeve
What virtues do you keep if every trial ends in acquittal?
What terrors dumped under the waves will float back in the tide?
After twenty one centuries of stony sleep,
what hideous slouching beast,
body of lion,
head of man,
opens it's eyes and shakes off desert sand?
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Alice's Crown
02:17
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Alice's Crown
kissed the train of her gown
she's been lost and wont ever be found
falling through miles and miles of
Alice's fantasy
Falling for miles and miles remain
Will leaves falling down
bury you on the ground?
now we've been going 'round and 'round
falling through miles and miles of
Alice's fantasy
Falling for miles and miles
and miles and miles
and miles and miles
and miles and miles remain.
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5. |
Frame by Frame
04:51
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Pander pandering
our idols exposed
at seven soho square
their factory is on fire.
His sleeve caught between the cogs
pulled him down into the machine.
Separated and processed,
vacuum packaged and frozen,
labeled and shipped out friday morning.
Pander pandering
our fathers are in the tomb
november twenty-two
and their sons in uniform
Wave from your motorcade and
smile for my rifle’s kick.
Roses pop from the back of your skull now,
gold coins hold down your eyelids.
Crouch from my window frame by frame
Peep 'round the corner,
someone's always following me home
Sleep under the covers,
wake up to torches
All the rats come out of the woodwork and congregate on my lawn
Drag me to the scale and weigh a feather to my heart
I'll hunt you one by one and hold you under the faucet 'till you're turning blue
Breathe your last breath,
one eye is truth one eye is god.
Whisper in my ear "one eye is truth one eye is god."
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Proof of love is in the mask
and sprawled flat out on his back
flaking paint chips in the sun
Proof of purchase standing tall
holding lobsters by the whiskers
carving circles in his chest
We stood,
we trembled, we
laughed like burning giraffes
with bamboo scaffolding to keep our spines upright (our disks aligned)
Proof of love is dying fast
sprawled out across the turnpike
shattered windshield from the crash
Proof of purchase standing close
dialing an ambulance and
plucking shards out of his brain
You stood,
you trembled, you
rattled like a wooden cabinet
holding my failing organs back into their proper drawers:
our one-sided relationship suspended by a tendon of
two-way windows
it's a one-way jump (I had an early death)
The sidewalks and alley walls still ring with trumpets from the past,
as cheap imitations come and go but never last.
***
Celtic hymns swallow my eardrums
blood spat and eyelids drawn
the curtains unveiled for spite--
Casting over clouds of rusted hills
(can you see the) burden-cracked masculine bronze frames, so untamed
The absence of sincerity and honesty
leaves of sullen swoon when time is due:
AAAHHHKKK!!!!!
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7. |
Pander
02:01
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Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who...SAY Say say it...you gotta SAY it and get the gold, get the BIG one the big ol' juicy pumpkin patch squash like tomorrow's toast isn't the wrong April 14th 1956 he told me LOOK ME IN THE FUCKING EYES no no no no it wasn't I in the backyard holding a stick... the neighbor killed our cat JESUS who the hell do you think you're fooling you slimy little sly-devil-dog you !
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9. |
Plastic Rock
03:16
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Grabbed by a riptide,
mouthfuls of swirling blue
burned my eyes and nostrils,
I wasn't as cautious as Hatteras is notorious
Dragged beyond the continental slope
I can't swim but i haven't sunk yet
I must be buoyant, full of air, tossing in the waves
seasick on my own fraudulence
(Shoreline disappears, clouds are spinning)
Sink, swim
float like a plastic rock
who do i think i'm fooling?
(Sent out a raven, sent out a dove)
Over rigid slopes of blowing dunes that blister feet for circling vultures
one rock stands out among the infinite same:
deflated, misshapen, and faded in solar radiation
but the Sahara was once a vast ocean deep and it'll be underwater again
soon enough.
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10. |
Be Nimble
03:37
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Plans never pan out how you planned them,
and fans want the same or just complain.
I could live like i'm twenty-two for the rest of my life,
and make three by three again and again.
Hold me up to the candle,
hold my hand over flame.
Jack be nimble,
predictable.
Complain how all you do is complain,
you lay around and jerk off all day.
I'd rather drink bleach than microwave freezerburnt dreams,
in a tizzy, in the darkest pit
where I crawled out as a locust
and set fire to the earth.
Sired by the beast i worship,
he writes my name,
and spells it with a Y
He spells it with a Y
Silence,
the room is electric
and snowflakes are still in her hair
I’m mixing my words and drinks in the kitchen sink
My tongue is tied around my feet
and i slip
like brakes screech and echo
between row-homes and through walls.
Astonishing how we tried so hard,
and so it falls
"and so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghosty
turned a whiter shade of pale"
We tried so hard, and so it falls,
we all became our folks
we all became our folks
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11. |
The Fool (XXII)
04:12
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Wine,
wine embrace
Teeth as red as your face,
as red as your face
I'm asking you to look the other way
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
Be careful 'cause the devil wants to get you too
Time, time to taste,
the sweat of a poorly run race,
the sweat on my face
I'm asking you to run the other way
(run run run the other way)
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
I hope the devil doesn't get you
I hope the devil doesn't get you too
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Wine,
wine embrace
Teeth as red as your face,
as red as your face
I'm asking you to look the other way
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
Be careful 'cause the devil wants to get you too
Time, time to taste,
the sweat of a poorly run race,
the sweat on my face
I'm asking you to run the other way
(run run run the other way)
I'm asking you to look the other way it's true
'cause i've been here so long it's starting to show
in my eyes
and shine through
I hope the devil doesn't get you
I hope the devil doesn't get you too
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Telyscopes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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