1. |
Birth of Angus
02:12
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Scraping at walls of his womb of stone and
keratin film
Snapping out soaked in yolk & gasping down
putrid muck
Wrestling useless treasure
from the dregs of the trash can
Open the lid
& look out at this heavenly land
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2. |
ACH!
01:55
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ACH!
The parrot said,
a bark!
From out it's head
no more!
Swallowing down bread
Its skin it had to shed!
ACH!
Wandering through a drab scene
Gettin' pummeled by blast beats
I'm hearin' the cat scream
from
The other side of the door
ACH!
Its fingers spread
Its toes let go
up!
Back from the dead
its barren head arose
ACH!
Hooks from her fingers
I try & not fling her
Slobbery stingers
sinking
in to me!
She only has one eye
yellow & opened wide
I have two working eyes,
I have a dog & he's blind
Dedicated to Morris
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3. |
Gullet
03:40
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The beasts in the wall
they keep me awake
So I was late
again for work today
But can they be blamed?
They scrape through the wall
& eat into the blueberry cake
Well I'm hungry too,
I'd be happy to share
I could make you some peppermint tea
Lay your head down on the seat
& I'll pour it in
You helpless young beast
I see you in dreams
With your gullet
trapped under a guillotine
Your friends are there too
with their scraggly broken backs caught
in between
I shed not a tear
'cause I can't have you near
But I know that you never belonged
So softly I mourn as I watch you get buried in snow
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4. |
Gormvelt the Toad, Pt. 1
02:19
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Trapped under a dome in his home of
BEARDS AND JOCKS
They live to impress their elder pop
His brothers are obsessed with beer and
cockfighting
But adventure is inviting
Sweet Gormvelt!
His mother's child
Refused to give into machismo so he was reviled
Sweet Gormvelt!
A stealthy toad,
one day he snuck out of the door, and he left his home sweet home
So with a bindle on his shoulder he takes his leave
Packed with his mother's gilded sword that's prepared to cleave
Look over there, across the river! What's that? He sees:
AN ORANGE APE
Swinging high around the trees
Soaring so gracefully
Gigantopithecus so free
Gormvelt sees from underneath,
says to himself:
"What could this be?"
Then the beast lets out a mournful shriek
Plunging through the underbrush from the canopy
Their arm is tumbling beside them and chopping trees
The toad he hops out of the way and shouts to the beast:
"Hey there! Can your severed limb be repaired?"
"I don't think so," they answer back
"but now that I've just lost my arm, I could use a snack"
Sweeet Gormvelt
reaches in his pack
Pulls out an apple for the ape
& a bandage rag & says:
I'M GORMVELT
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5. |
Lanky Garth
02:36
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He steps out across the street,
bones reaching to the concrete
He wears his socks up high,
his ears reach the clouds in the sky
In open pouch he finds
strange trinkets hidden inside
His name is Lanky Garth
and through pockets cash he will pry
Fingers like spiders
to reach inside of a pocket
Nails long enough to reach
through cloth dim lighted socket
Here he will take a coin,
maybe even two or three or four
He transfers to cargo shorts
where stolen treasure are stored
His shorts can hide
all that's inside
His pants are bursting (bursting)
but not with what's implied
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6. |
8206
02:49
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Leaving a brick white home
founded by
a thief of ice
Knowledge in your dome
put in by
an old playwright
Home of tall white jocks
runnin' round the basement
throwin' round rocks
History runnin' through your bones
gremlins in the front
chewin' on stones
I've been breathing up & down underneath the sink
I've been hiding up and down, waiting for some water
to drink
Feelin' like I'm home alone
thinkin' 'bout cryin' my eyes out
Talkin' on the phone
with you
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7. |
po peepaw
00:36
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8. |
Frog Tree
02:32
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Went out today to find
a new way to find
A new type of frog tree
They fall right off the branch,
one big avalanche
In that old cemetery
But don't say that you heard it from me
Went out tomorrow to see
their sorrow
Becoming their new face
Host he is now in Hell
with no such shape or shell
And no protective case
And that's where the frog planted its seed
DON'T SAY THAT YOU STOLE THE CONCEPT,
IF YOU TOOK IT FROM ME
EVERYONE MUST KNOW OF
THIS BOUNTIFUL FROG TREE
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9. |
brwn lqud
01:26
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Brown liquid falling down
my throat
I went off the road
On my way home from work
today
Falling through
Brown liquid falling through
my teeth
I don't like to work always
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10. |
Long in the Tooth
04:50
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Walking through forests
all on my own
Grasping at metal straws
with precise and sharp bone
Bearded heavy lifter
covers my dome
Leggings of chain link
colored in chrome
He's wringing you out and it'll be dark
Until we behead this fiery monarch
Crushed under crystals
we will slog on
Trees tower, leaf shower
pick up the lawn
There is an apple we must shake down
Stab through the bastard,
topple the crown
I'll stay here til I'm long in the tooth
We will scream and we'll scream the truth
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11. |
Requiem for Angus
05:10
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He was born in an old trash can
& he picked up a trombone
He put it up to his parched lips
& he began to blow
Sweet songs of an old land
that he would never know
The movements, quickly, of his right hand
struck me down beneath the bone
And his face fell off in a plastic bag
in a forest for all to see
For he burned an American flag
an act of
blasphemy
And he spoke of revolution
but it fell only on deaf ears
He pissed upon the constitution
so they took away his years
And his lover tried to save him
but he just couldn't reach
He threw them down into the pavement
struck them down just like a leech
and his face fell off on a plastic beach
somewhere on a cold winter beach
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