how does it feel to not exist
and still people want you dead?
how does it feel to be the product
of one man's dislike of jamaicans?
jar jar your heart's on fire
your heart's on fire your heart's on fire.
and as it turns out
every day you're moving faster away
unless our dust calibration is wrong.
so do your dance. do your funny little dance.
crystallized on dvd, buried in the sand.
the last sunrise, the last sand people move on.
salute the boiling sun. compressed to a point.
spend your retirement as hawking radiation.
still jar jar your heart's on fire
your heart's on fire your heart's on fire.
it was pitch black. victor was eaten by a grue.
he was very young and it changed him forever
in entirely predictable ways.
nodded off for an hour in an insecure jacuzzi.
awoke with benjamin button skin.
got a stick up his ass to keep him straight
when he walks down the street.
he's thinking of cash crops, he's thinking of cash crops.
he wants a chorus here. he wants a chorus here.
it was pitch black. das kapital was written by a grue.
we were somewhat immature and it changed us forever
in entirely predictable ways.
write that one fucking novel you presume you have in you
based on standard success in unrelated endeavors.
write it entirely in WordArt$^{\mathrm{TM}}$ with drop shadows.
you're thinking of cash crops. you're thinking of cash crops.
there should be a chorus here. you want a chorus here.
but times are tight, old belt new hole, old belt new hole.
all i ever wanted was an honest nosebleed.
autumnal chords for industrial man,
shovel coal and work the bellows.
lie back and don't think too much.
post-it wish wall overflows,
poster child for loud mistakes.
lie back and don't think too much.
walk the streets - this flat has gone grey,
and a cold foul thing asleep in the kitchen
as you lie back and peel tangerines.
and it goes on, on and on and on,
and you know better than to ask it why.
night furies stop by, prop up the tattered times.
excuses excuses - i am chicken cheep cheep cheep.
i'm not going out there again, i'm a vicar in a vampire film.
a snowdrift head to toe - can't feel my face at all.
and it goes on and starts to eat itself,
and you know better than to ask it why.
when i was a child i spake as a child i thought as a child
and the womb such creatures crawl from is still going strong.
you standing there, an unsung song today.
there's a fine fine fine fine semi-imagined line.
there's a big red button and there's a sign.
now they're building new towers that we will not climb,
and they are writing new songs so put on yours and just drive.
and there's a fine fine fine fine semi-imagined line.
and there's a big red button, and there's a sign.
so ring out like long-forgotten song today.
ring out over chaiarascuro courtyard crowd.
ring out over yes-man network going down down down.
and when i was an old man my one-shot understanding
became increasingly irrelevant.
and when i was a princess my tower walls they crumbled,
the ivy so black and wet.
and when i was a great ape i climbed the tallest buildings
in the wrong part of town.
and when i was a playwright the characters made light of their predicaments while the actors unionized.
and there's a grasping and a pulling
- no palantir no need i see a swelling need of needing and an aftermath of boredom.
and there's a lazy urgent ambience,
there's a box that won't nail itself shut.
there's love as bridge (contract bridge).
and how the light of burning bridges guides our path.
about
recorded falkevej 6, oct-dec 2016.
contains excerpts of interviews with richard nixon, spiro agnew, james baker.
credits
released December 12, 2016
words, music, mixing, super realistic spider leg shadows: llama. thanks to whoever left out that disgusting sandwich at work. thanks to philip and brad for working out 'morning' and 'jar jar' live!
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