1. |
Shoot Me Down
05:06
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SHOOT ME DOWN:
I spent fourteen years in Texas penn
My God, it's time to blow this joint
My money's in a mattress stashed in Western Idaho
I've got my rifle in my saddlebag, a bottle for a soul
But if I get back to sweet Oregon, yeah, I'll know I've won the war
So shoot me down, just shoot me down
On my way up through New Mexico my luck just up and died
Now the sheriff needs a scapegoat for somebody else's crimes
And now they know my face, they know the graceful ways in which I kill
If my soul's spending on credit, oh please Lord, don't send the bill
Just shoot me down
You ain't got nothing' to decide
Shoot me down
Cause you won't be taking me alive
Now I've wasted me a Pinkerton, that boy was twenty-five
They hunt me like the devil's spawn and for once I don't know why
And if I make time to the border I might make it out alive
But, oh my God, the posse's running and my credit line's run dry
So shoot me down, just shoot me down
Now they've got me on my knees, the sheriff's looking down his sight
The pastor spits tobacco as he's reading my last rights
But I'm daydreaming of the dawn on sweet McKenzie's morning light
Then I reach up grab the barrel just before I say goodnight
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2. |
Teak
03:10
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TEAK:
Teak was a man,
A man that was constructed with a branch for a hand
The hand that was created just to fuck with the land
But the land just deconstructed back back back back back back back
to their minds
And in the end you'll burn cause that's the way it is
And in the end you'll burn until you figure your race out
If you tax us, we'll just tax you symbiotically
Teak's feeling blue, for a man in a palatial winter house for two
Decided that this comfy human life's not for you
With the final vague assumption that he'll find find find find find some way to survive
So Teak goes to the store,
To the clerk he asks "May I purchase some Marb Lights before I make it to the show tonight?"
But the shopkeep says relax, then he pulls out an axe, Screaming "I'm gonna cut cut cut you back to
nature's fucking whore size,
NATURE'S FUCKING WHORE SIZE!?!!?!?!"
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3. |
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DECLARATION OF ENTROPIC (IN)DEPENDENCE:
Everything, everything, everything will change
Everything, everything will stay in stasis
As my mind and body windowpane drips slowly, slowly back to basics
It breaks us, it takes us back to when we never thought about it
Constantly we're trying to find our way, denying
That what our lives have been will be again, we'll be again
Our precocious race can't be contained,
Bottled and sold for entertainment
No, in the end, in the end we'll be the same
Bodies and minds exchanging places
It breaks us, it takes us back to when we never thought about it
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4. |
Astral Travel Battles
04:21
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ASTRAL TRAVEL BATTLES:
Twenty billion corollaries of the future,
Where do I even start?
If you keep driving yourself this crazy, good sir,
You're gonna tear yourself apart
So, don't think about her sweet kiss, resist,
There's time enough for that in dreams
Just give yourself over to the sunshine bliss that's
Bursting out your motherfucking seams
I'll just be here now, be here now, be here now
Don't let your future slip away
I don't give a fuck about how I'm dancing now,
Just moving where the music goes
And I don't give a fuck if you think I'm romancing you, girl,
Just got to move these magic toes
I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot darling,
Don't want into your pantyhose
I'm sorry, I've already got a tigress I love truly,
Just here to let the motherfucking music roll
I can't stand it when you're talking ‘bout your future plans
When all I really wanna do
Is save you from your metaphorical nightmares,
Motherfucker, I miss you
So don't tell me ‘bout your astral travel battle plans,
I'm trying to reconnect with you
I'm sorry you need to go back read it again, man
It was on the front page but you missed a clue
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5. |
Crystalline Logic
06:36
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CRYSTALLINE LOGIC:
You said you would remember not to lose control
You said you could take the perception shocks and shakes like changing clothes
But you never could remember
In the midst of all this entropy, you struggle to control
You just try to isolate what's real from what's forlorn
But you never could remember to
Disintegrate so slowly
To the pull of what's not there, you're gonna lose yourself and
Disintegrate so slowly
Till the purging fire of crystalline logic pulls you back in
You'll reintegrate so slow
I said I would remember that our bodies are still whole
But I couldn't resist the icy tryst of death's sweet pull
No, I never could remember
In the midst of all this entropy, I struggle to let go
But I just can't release all our thought, all our work, all our love unborn
I never could remember to
You're gonna lose yourself tonight
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6. |
Mama Bear (EP Version)
03:42
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MAMA BEAR:
Dun nun nun nun (repeat)
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7. |
Somnifero
04:48
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SOMNIFERO:
So you think you wanna hurt me,
Well just hurt me, it still feels the same
And you're trying to convert me,
Well just convert me, I'll remember my name
Cause all this sleep is gonna turn me, twist me, burn me,
But I'll never be tamed
Then in eighty when we're worm meat deep, deep, deep sleep,
but our words will remain
Yeah, our words will remain
Look through the trees,
You'll divine the mystery that sets us apart from
Flock symmetry,
You'll believe the mystery that sets us apart
Trust your heartbeat
Now you're thinking that you want to haunt me, taunt me,
But I'm slipping away
And you’re trying to convert me,
So just convert me, I'll remember my name
All this sleep is gonna turn me, twist me, burn me,
But I'll never be tamed
Then in eighty when we're worm meat deep, deep, deep sleep,
But our words will remain
Yeah, our words will remain
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