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Slipped and Flew!
03:08
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The man who slipped flew up and away
Like televised strands of DNA
From the percolating crises of the day
To a surreal cereal of another beast next week
Screaming
Go percolate in trivial mucus machines
As I polish my psyche for bizarre activity
Tomorrow in my hometown of Almond Plum
Where change is a constant stagnant machine
It's the strangest town you’ve ever seen
But it's exactly like everywhere you've ever been
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn’t
Slipped and flew
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn't
Right into you
What's the evil you see in me
Evil's so 20th century
Like cheap sixth sense extension surgery
Unmodified hand in melted wax purgatory
Bellevue suicides seeking serenity
And me of all people can do the laundry
Yes me
For seven billion paralyzed infant animals
Can stand in a park in front of a tree
For five seconds longer than I did yesterday
I can say I'm still lovin' you
And I don't care who know about it
I'm still lovin’ you
And I don’t care who know about it
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn't
Slipped and flew
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn’t
Right into you
If the 4 AM G train man can smother his beard in factory cheese
And attempt to seduce my leg to his hand beyond deformed human hand
Only to return one heated evening stripped of hair
Rage of karmic surprise emanating from inner eyeballs
Scouring my invisible wall for a crack
Or hidden entrance not otherwise specified
And flee gracefully with a quiet rumbling thump
Then I'd make a damn fine pacifist
And I can play this song when I get pissed
And I can be your exorcist
I really wanna be your exorcist
You're gonna be my exorcism
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn't
Slipped and flew
It is what it is when it is it
Even when it isn’t
Right into you
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I got a message
All it said was earthworm
Told me things inside my sleep
I got a message
It said
Soon I will love you
But for now, I'll sleep with someone else
Someone else
I don't know
Someone else
With you
I got a message
All it said was earthworm
Told me things inside my sleep
I got a message
It said
Earthworm
Soon you will play my drum
Play my drum
I don't know
Play my drum
With you?
I took a walk around Rego Park at five in the morning
I took a walk around your neighborhood and I saw you in the street
I took a walk around Rego Park and I saw you in the street
Stared you down in Flushing when I found out how you got back on your feet
You said
Take the red mouthwash
And the green shaving cream
Take a walk around Flushing
And dance into my dream
I got a message
All it said was earthworm
Told me things inside my sleep
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Degenerates?
03:07
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When I was 16 years old
My friend's dad told me
That only degenerates go to nightclubs
I thought
So what?
What’s a degenerate?
That was the same year I recorded a record in my parent's apartment
Called Campaigning in Empty Apartments From Room to Room
It was the first record I'd recorded in 6 years
And my first time recording vocals on Lithium
So what?
What’s a degenerate?
6 years later
My friend who played sitar on the last song on that record told me
That he lost the keys to his apartment because he's a degenerate
That was around the same time I realized the world is made of plastic
You know
Here comes the new plastic
Same as the old plastic
The classic plastic
Classic half-wit tone-deaf horseshit yelling
Rock and roll is dead
All the great songs have already been written
All the great drugs have already been taken
All the great cars have already been driven
And all the great love was a lie
And other unintelligible drivel
Plastic is a life that you can buy
So what?
What's a degenerate?
The day I meet the reaper
My body will find a new enclosure
A brand new heart to beat around
But my old corpse
With its vampiric ideas
And tidbits of useless information
Will degenerate into dust
Like every crook on Wall Street
Every song ever written
Every poser in Brooklyn
Every fucking angel
Every friend of mine driven aimlessly around by a great dead cat in the sky
Death is a life that you cannot buy
And that
That is a degenerate
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4. |
Year of Seven Puppets
02:40
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You'll meet strange people in a test tube
Girls in a living room laugh at a television
Boys scream screamy things at their socks
Like joy joy joy and riding a donkey
They went to find a place to sleep
And woke up inside what seemed like a mansion
A regular resting place for those who feel the need to sit
And wait as the rain sets
The windows bled out into a space into green fields spanning beyond the comprehension of man
The steps in a life that echo for eternity
Forgetting this they slept in king-sized white beds
Bags unpacked
All the things they'd taken with them down the road
Taken out and placed in place
They were advised not to stay long in this mansion
But to savor the time while they are there
And dream of most astonishing things
Because when you leave part of you stays behind
Told to dream of most astonishing things
Like wild olympian yellow jacket stings
On hands of marzipan caramel rings
Because when you leave part of you stays behind
In this mansion
I saw seven gods in my dream last night
I saw you and seven friends in a streetfight
I saw seven puppets on fourth street
They said I won't last long in the shadow of your shadow
It's raining
Children play in the garden outside
"Do they know where they are?"
Asked a voice from the inside
"No," replied the mansion
"They're just there
And so are you
But we'll all figure out
Where we are
One day"
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
You'll meet strange people in a test tube
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Year of Four Flames
03:50
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I walked outside
It was dawn
There were flowers left on the side of the road
And it was cold
There was a breeze and a building
And at the time it was almost Spring
I got a call from an old friend today
I said
I can't find the keys to my car
I walked outside and I fell into a dream
And I just wanted to scream
But I don’t scream in my sleep anymore
I keep getting calls from an old friend these days
He says
Everything's evil
And nothing's perfect
But everything deserves a second chance
But I walk outside to find nothing but the same
You say it’s different now
You haven't changed
Should've walked outside
When you tried to convince every yuppie in the East 14th Street Whole Foods
That you were my husband
'Cause you thought it sounded cool
It was dumb
My mind wandered
I wanna take my man to the moon
To the mountains
To the hidden rooms
I wanna go everywhere
But I keep getting calls from an old flame
He says
We're all soldiers
And we're all cars fighting other cars
On the little highway roads
And everything is fixed
And the whole wide world is predetermined
And made up of guns and newspapers
And toy painted guns that are illegal
And we're so fucking illegal
That we're probably totally legal
’Cause everything is strange
It’s dawn
There are flowers growing on the side of the road
And it's so fucking cold
There’s a breeze and a building
A few more weeks until it's Spring
Let's take a walk
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6. |
Serendipity
02:27
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Insects hungry for the light and the dark in the room
Watching this floor all the time
Serendipity took me out for a walk
Serendipity took me to his side
Thought it was all right
But it's so worth it
Insects circling the streets for the way inside
Watching the people come and go
Summer comes and I run through the park
Hope they're eating me alive
Thought it was all right
But it's so worth it
Think I'll walk myself away from this
Think I'll walk myself away from this
Think I'll walk myself away from
This serendipity
I found a garden inside my house
Now I don't know what to do
Secretly I got tired of working it all out
I knew it'd drive me insane
Thought it was all right
And nothing is worth it
And nothing is worth it
Nothing is worth it
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7. |
Autumn Plum
04:55
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I'm walking in the woods in the English countryside
A few weeks ago
And I'm alone
And I'm lost
Suddenly
I see a wild turkey walking around in the woods with me
And this turkey has a big red hipster beard
And I'm like
"Whoa"
I've never seen a turkey with a hipster beard
And there's another turkey
And another one
Like ten turkeys
In these woods with me
And all of them have big red hipster beards
So I'm like
"I'm gonna take out my phone
And take some pictures of these turkeys
To show my friends in Brooklyn"
So I take out my phone
And it has this blue case
This weird blue case
And it's not my case
And it's not my phone
And I'm like
"I guess this is my phone"
So while I'm taking pictures of these turkeys
These other turkeys
These light blue turkeys
Transparent cyan tinted turkeys
With big dark blue hipster beards
Start appearing
Materializing randomly
In these woods
From all directions
Hundreds of 'em
And I'm like
"I've never seen anything like this before"
I've never seen anything
And to think
Back home
A man walks into a train station
And just starts flatlining
And all the emperors of infancy sit and stare
At everything or something becoming nothing
While sir subway masturbator in the corner fucks off
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and playful melancholy that can be called “romantic punk”.
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