1. |
Out of Steam
02:54
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the machine's out of steam
our highest hope
we wouldn't dream
of gleaning
without contest
this conquest
leaves my eaves
full of leaves
and my sleeves
as thick as thieves.
i do believe
something foul's
blowing in
on the breeze
its called progress
nevertheless
you're overdressed
for dealing with your stress
give it a rest
have you tried sweat pants?
reading internet rants?
why dontchya put your head in the microwave
and do a little dance?
self imposed screen trance
fucking love at first glance
if you've never had a meaningful connection
in your life then here's your chance
to stay the same
stagnancy's deranged
have your habits rearranged
or toss them out on the curb
shit's perturbed
like some fast food trash
no one else will say a word
so act fast
or get stuck in the past
bound to be broken
born into a caste
let it be spoken aloud
that we've reached critical mass.
down to brass tacks.
you just hesitated
and i think we should tax that,
i'm inebriated
but i think you should pass that
no need to debate it
when were already at mass
amen mister mister
wont you kindly kiss my ass
to prove i've got nothing to lose
when i pass go
fiasco
GET THE FUCK OUT MY SHACKLES
i'm that astral rascal
chained to the stains on my shirt
doomed to grapple with the dirt
motivation's inert
so insert your card chip first
in my intentions
did i mention
that the first ten
come with a heavy handed
explanation of scansion.
solar expansion's
reason enough
to start planting
our worst fears
in the cracks in concrete.
delete the memory
of frustration
and in its place
build a gas station.
time to refuel,
there's no win or lose
when all you do is consume
the only real question is
can i eat this?
can i eat something else
that can eat this?
no need to defeat this
tyranny of desire,
the fire's blind
to gears grinding away,
i hope you're finding your way
into my sway.
tides fade
confined in the stockades
dismayed at how degraded
this charade is,
i'm poking holes
through the pages
of the phone book
but what's the hook?
when they call your name
there's no escaping this forsaken outlook.
look out for louts left rooked
or you'll end up undercooked
shaken all night long
to the same old song,
perchance just bored enough
to take a stance
against the barren expanse
to find a kernel of truth
and mill it into stardust.
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2. |
Foghorns for the Wayward
02:57
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look up to nothing
like a deer in the headlights.
uncertainty is the only certainty
anything else is delusion
self induced mania
aimed at convincing ourselves
that everything around us
is'nt crumbling outwards.
we take these shattered fragments
and rearrange them as we see fit
forever ambivalent
and wastefully vigilant.
you know i keep an eye out
in case my steeple turns inside out
lets find out
if there are any gods in my house.
keep your grass-fed ass in bed
flick on the tube and get
taught up on how to play dead
take it all in until the walls spin
don't change that channel
trip and fall in, your thoughts are sprawling
upon a panel of glass
as hours pass
your futures already past due.
what'll last dude?
wasting fast
put your mind in a cast
or a casket.
bricks and brambles
my worlds in shambles
im ready to ramble
with empty cans of cambles
soup with an ally oop
up in a trash can
or nike swoop
your shoes are trash, man
i don't mean to be brash, knawmsayin'
but you probably wouldn't find kitschier styles
on your gramma's kitchen tiles.
white walls
white walls
all i see is white walls
cigarette butts
cell-phone calls
selfie-sticks obstruct urban sprawl
mirror to mirror
feel real tall
reflect your deflection
pay no attention
just pay the price
for these white walls.
every interaction's eliciting smiles
like i'm soliciting air-miles
to greener pastures
under piles of mixes and masters.
litter's literal disaster
for here and after.
some daft bastard
thought he'd get a pass for
dumping his stash here,
so go pick it up motherfucker.
you're living on a heap of rubber tires
and grease fires.
the garbage in your garage
wont bring peace ties,
just sties in the eyes
of dece liars
you cant despise this
or criticize the status quo
just stick to what you know
and never question what you do
or where you're going,
just keep going nowhere.
I'll see you when you get there
you can leave tomorrow
if you wanna peddle petty sorrows
on another man,
ill leave today
don't need another gram of your next trip.
this way towards the exit,
follow the flashing lights
through the cesspit
if you're not desperate
for a respite.
the mild zealot's
never restless.
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3. |
Smalltalk's Padlock
02:08
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we don't have to believe in
what we cant see.
pull apart the weft from the weave
and see what's left, greave
everything entitled to a keyring.
concealing your feelings
isn't self healing
or even appealing
reveal your intentions
never mention kneeling
as a option,
to cooperate's
just to conceal the toxins
washing through your noggin
urging you alter your conscience
in the face mutual defeat's
adoption.
oh what a godsend,
this peace.
and quiet
beckons bias in the face
of impious defiance
our reliance
on crisis
goes all the way back to papyrus
on fire
screeching out a siren's song.
alluring thoughts
of violence's wrongness
altruism flawless
until someone gets labelled
the strongest,
and honestly,
develop an interest in botony
because back to the dirt
is were we're heading
demonstrably,
our economy's
a wobbly top.
build a yurt
before you buy that stock.
the water clock's ticking
down to cases closed
on smalltalk's padlock.
come say it to my face
come say it to my,
come say it to my face
come say it to my,
come say it to my face
come say it to my,
come say it to my face
you view me through my race
cuz your hate's misplaced
around the waist
of people without a face.
personality's erased
without a trace
of distaste.
belligerence,
go buy a case
of something different.
everybody's looking for deliverance
in a cigarette's flickering,
hard pressed to stop liquoring.
who am i kidding?
no one keeps their winnings,
no such thing as beginnings,
only visions and spectacles.
we'd be fools
to think that anything's correctable.
such a fucking trek
to check the rules,
so we settle for neglect
and misdirect ourselves
into retrospective
genuflection.
ineffective interjections
denote linear perspective,
the collective's not selective
so much as reflexive,
aggressively suggestive
at the prospect
of how much like them you can one day
aspire to be.
just not right now.
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4. |
What___is___you?
02:09
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you think you can really know someone
until you realize, you don't even know yourself.
only you can ask
who am i?
the question who are you
is meant to confuse
how you're seen
and what you do,
and whether you follow
the predetermined rules
and stay in time.
one day you'll find
that its all a game
to reduce
and reuse preconceptions
of weaponized
expectations.
titles are the foundation of nations
and the death of change
but what if being is knowing
and growing is freeing
yourself from boundaries,
found in reason
not down to these
emotions and thoughts,
packed in tight with the locks
its time to take stock
of what our minds have become
lest be become undone.
I for one refuse to stagnate
or hate anything.
see,
you're smarter than this.
you don't have to fall for such artifice.
the superlative mode opened up an abyss,
compassion's amiss in competition.
you can't coalesce with the opposition.
from their position,
our minds are closed to their
inherent superiority.
so might as well just bow down
to their authority.
is what they want you to think!
you don't need a phone or a shrink
to live on the brink of insanity
as defined by the white man.
they want you to think
they're the right man
for future plans towards
their own divested interests,
oh how boring,
back to pintrest
or whatever you do
to relabel your dreams as garbage.
hunting bargains
exhausting carbons
without purpose.
what a burden to feel worthless.
its easy to think
that everyone else
has what you wanted
but deep down
they're just around as hollow as you
with that comparative attitude.
define yourself
and find the wealth
in understanding
that demanding others
submit to your qualifications
is gentrification.
the world's a diverse place
but we're putting all that in a hearse
in the first place
without really considering
what we have to lose.
we have to chose
to think about it.
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5. |
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this is a happy potato slumber
sitting for long hours
with unsupported lumbar
twitching,
itching,
snip off the tag
refresh your screen
and wait for the lag.
bite through the cheese and mustard
that crusty cracker custard.
i'm so fucking sick
of this rhetoric,
all i hear is the clock tic
and tic
its telling me
its time to panic.
i might just scream
i might just scream
i might just scream
it's time to panic
and you have wounds to lick
and i'm high from illogic
i am the queen of panicking
i am the queen of panicking
i am the queen of panicking
that sweet anxiety blanketing
the tightening squeeze
of your wedding ring.
the time has come
to step into the panicdom.
i might just scream
i might just scream
i might just scream
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6. |
Bang on the Roof
02:20
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you and i like to bang on the roof
and a you and i like to bang on the bang on the
(x5)
me and jesus chill on the weekends
play smash, eat trash
try to make amends
for our cheap moustaches.
i must ask you
how do you do.
etiquette dictates
that id be a dick face
if i don't acknowledge
when you enter the room.
boy do i hope
i'm just dopesick
the rope's slick
climbing the reminders
on my phone
when i'm home
i'm alone
just a clone
of what you wont click.
no class.
if i had tits
you pelt likes
at my pics
until the screen cracks
obscene tracks
wont convene pax.
i'm vaping acetate while i'm waiting
just to relax.
pay the tax
like stay back,
or they'll frack your fucking backyard
if i don't rap hard
they'll plant me in the ground
between the swiss chard
and my credit card debt.
if i had to make a bet
my regret will probably reset
if i could just drink one more,
probably gonna be sore tomorrow.
sorry if i snore
its such a chore
to keep banging some more,
you know?
dishes pile up
liquor cup
pour it up,
before we intercourse
sign the prenup.
don't forget consent
so no regrets,
be present
or lawyer up,
party with your bro mates
fuck these other hos mate
trained to hate girls since before we were, like, eight?
because we're scared of what they create,
hope in the face of fate.
chewing the 'ol erasermate
while i dictate
rubbish in the bin,
let me gospel for a hot spell
putzing with a safety pin.
no need discussing
the flaw in your bluffing
that shaky chin
gave you away before your mother did,
when fist saw your face
much to her own chagrin
she tried to haggle
your inconsequential ass
for a bagel
with cream cheese
her dreams freeze
when you refuse
to quit wheezing
about what's so displeasing
to your particular breed
of douchebag.
no one ever promised you huge price tag.
bite the carrot at the end of the shtick,
you idiot
wake up shit eat weep sleep
don't forget to drink water
boy you outa keep a straight face
like an iguana.
fucking reptilian.
living from one fart to the next
like a million years
of civilian jeers
and light beer
leaves you feeling maybe just a little bit queer?
well here here,
may i borrow your ear?
cuz i haven't Van Goht any
tried to listen to Bennie and the Jett's
on repeat.
are there any of us left
who're incomplete?
the cell phone
is a real fucking feat
of social engineering
to steer clear of
anyone who wishes to
really hear here.
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7. |
Blowhole
02:47
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what's that?
you're complaining?
oh how interesting.
you're indebted so the interest stings?
got a credit card for the simplest things
so your never far
from those distant strings of discord
pegged to the morgue
on your circuit board?
tuned in to your ordinary dose of death,
breadth of destruction next,
the presumption that everything
you see in the glass is correct, like
vague instructions of what to expect
in the palm of your hands.
the sand's slipping through our fingers
like our bond to the land
go figure, flipping through suggestions
just to hone our indiscretion
to the point where
there's no need to mention
our joint pain.
anoint the vain vessel of my brain
in polyurethane,
fill up my orifices
i'm finished with these little fishes,
i got to go
meet my mannequin friends.
its really romantic
when you pretend
that your the epicenter
of whatever's the trend
they're selling these days
to the kids, these waves
are square grids
trawling our eyelids
to choke the memory
of everything original we think we did,
tangled up in that mangrove of lies
they call your synapses.
immenant collapse is what it forsees.
if i have to hear one more fucking time
about your synesthesia,
hold up a minute take a breather,
beware the dick squeezers
coming out of your speakers.
this aint no way to spend your leisure,
we're beautiful creatures.
your withered quintesential essense
dithered on a t-shirt?
beautiful creatures...
the world's vicious
so be seditions
and come bump this shit
with me, yeah
don't be ridiculous
you only got one excuse
to revel in your fickleness,
mortality is ticklish
so come out of your chrysalis
and have a sip of this
pity party
figurants tryina figure out
just what ignorance is
is it what we know
or what we don't know?
when we're drowning in uncertainty
a gasp for truth
only serves to fill our lungs
wordlessly
with the inurgency of eternity!
close your eyes and there's
that net again,
squaring away the contour
of your impure bemusings,
grooving out to the dentist office
music of your choosing
mouth agape
the unavoidable escape,
there's no space for disgrace
on my chip & dip plate.
imma buff out all my imperfections
so they sparkle so good
you see the reflection
of your ancestors
smiling back
telling you
you're understood,
they're so proud of you
for reaching adulthood.
meanwhile
deep down
i'm sporting a frown,
dreams of making verbs and nouns fuck
to gain renown, shucks,
i could've been the frank zappa of rap
if some other snowflake rhyme monger
hadn't already tapped the line
access declined,
you must be this cool
to ride a wide smile
so go stockpile
your excuses
for a boring lifestyle.
but please,
like my profile.
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8. |
Happy Happy Schisms
03:43
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who here knows what their name means?
what does it mean to you?
what does it mean to you mother?
what does it mean to smother your feelings in butter
until your dreams rise up to the top
through that boiling mess
you call your conscience?
are you conscious of your staunchness
towards an idolized self?
personal wealth or even health will never negate
the ever-present fact
that you and i are animals
about to die.
and that is why
i must reveal the lie
that stands between peace and quiet,
between trees and riots.
fees and flyers
litter your life with buyers remorse.
like morse code bleeping out
your free will,
like hey, i need a refill
but i'm not getting it on my own will
bring it here and i'll wait
while you carry, frustrated,
the weight of our hatred.
we saw you created some ideas,
now were here to condense them into tears
and rate them publicly
until you grow frustrated, reduced to simple fears,
unable to articulate your own gears
and mechanisms,
cranking out happy happy schisms
between your -isms and your well earned isnt's.
remain distant, imprisoned
in a prism of your own vision
wallowing in your self image.
no scrimmage or pilgrimage
or struggle at all
to stand tall at time's fall
and call out to your own echo:
"we will not go unprovoked"
you'd choke
if you heard the jokes,
afraid of some holy ghos,
i'd offer up some bread but you're already toast.
but look here what's this?
put down the mirror, see clearer
sorrows missed.
like crows looking back at their
past broods exude mist.
you kissed sweet forgetfulness
and collapsed upon the future tense.
sense optional,
cropped out the frame
to tame your lame train of thought is all.
you've seen it always
and forever endeavor to devour
your fears as the year's flowers pass.
turn the hour glass.
when the concave shifts to convex
there's no time for reflexes just refractions
of past captions
labels for mindless reactions
mere fables reduce us to fractions.
us vs them in suspended disbelief
like some thief came and robbed us
of our wits and and replaced
them with cheap imitations,
no revelations or relation
to our present selves.
literally Satan in a dirty apron sizzling glass shards
in bacon grease,
reaching for your powdered pride
off the shelf to season his great disease
of ignorance,
a massive inference
to your passive indifference.
you realize from a distance
that your eyes are wide open.
you can see the world.
but when the light pours out
you better get up and fucking run,
and don't look back.
stay on track.
you are your only begotten sun.
the present has just begun
no resistance to the flood,
go with the flow
and you'll know
the right way to go
insane is to look inwards
at the center of the universe
instead of outwards from.
traverse this eroded geode
and suppose you've got something
worth exposing to space and time:
your life
only derives meaning by
its proximity to other life
and therefore holds no significance above or below
but only with.
Cry out and hear your life resound,
hope for a echo not entirely your own
but a grueling, indistinguishable cacophony
of sympathetic vibrations cast from the unknown.
only those who listen know they're not alone.
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9. |
(re)Prize
03:26
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hey man,
its okay man,
i know you tried your best.
its just what happens
when you stick to
the tried and tested,
something fresh comes along
and you get bested.
there's no stopping time.
subprime ain't a crime,
without those enzymes in your gut
you wont make the cut
so eat some onions
and shave your bunions
until prospective sexual partners
come running up
to shake your hand
telling you their a fan
of all the mundane shit you do
when you're awake.
a lotta cheep sleep
and migraines
for heaven's sake
here's a trophy
for your back aches:
a consolation prize
we're all losers
if we try to win,
beggars turn to choosers
when they look within,
ain't no sin
or wrong or right
just tonight and tomorrow
hold the sorrow
for your next of kin.
grow some gills 'n fins
cuz were all sinking
i'm thinking
(x2)
all the money in the world
wont be saving us a cent,
but good intentions
never paid the rent.
forever spent
knees bent
in the event
of relentless descent,
keep waiting
for your hatred to recede
while you vent.
who could've foreseen
that poverty would become eugenics?
pretty much everyone seen it coming
except those in denial
put them on trial
and see who dials in
on what's truly vile,
victory is a loose noose
put your head in and smile
but who would do that to themselves?
take your pride off the shelf
and throw it over your shoulder
should you dare to grow bolder
you'll have to let that smolder, bruh
tired of lifting that boulder, huh?
don't think you'll just understand it
when you're older, son.
you'll have to live it
loss after loss
until you're tossed
to the moss.
whether you want to give it or not,
your body ends up as brown sauce
spread across a rock in space
so might as well embrace
every second you have
before you biodegrade
we're all losers
if we try to win,
beggars turn to choosers
when they look within,
ain't no sin
or wrong or right
just tonight and tomorrow
hold the sorrow
for your next of kin.
grow some gills 'n fins
cuz were all sinking,
i'm thinking
that this prize is regifted
lifted from the stars
rigid and twisted
its who we are
but the truth is omitted.
forget it.
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