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Lightbulb
02:46
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The lightbulb is updating
And I sit in the dark
Picking at my nose
With the invisible hand
How many songwriters
Does it take to screw a tune?
To get the record done on time?
To maximize demand?
While Palantir sells us to LAPD
I get jealous when someone I know’s on TV
It’s a slight of machine
To distract and deceive see how
Everyone’s clapping for free
The lightbulb is updating
We both look through my phone
You know lightbulbs only die
To maximize demand
If you’re burning out you better keep that shit in mind cause if you’re
Writing the record
You must want it heard
And return on investment
Is all but assured
Success is a steal
Where the cost is obscured
If you’re doing it right
Then it won’t even hurt
If I’m doing it right
Then I won’t feel a thing
I’m a brain in a jar
I’m a face on a screen
Liberated, good lookin, and good at relating
Now everyone’s clapping for me!
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I hope no one had to piss in a bottle at work to get me the thing I ordered on the internet
But I am no responsible party
I’m just a middle sized fish
In a pile of plastic
Wider than Texas
A pile of plastic
You wonder why I’m a
Poor sport
Squeezing my pores in the bathroom
I’m not ready yet
To go back to the people
Fall short
Every chance that I give
You say speak for yourself
I say you don’t listen, you want
Everything, everything, everything all at once
I know every time you sip from a bottle of piss and remember me the memory degrades
But I need no responsible parting
You can think me away
In your mind made of plastic
Your mind made of plastic
In your mind made of plastic
You wonder why I’m a
Poor sport
Squeezing my pores in the bathroom
I’m not ready yet
To go back to pretending
Falls short
Every chance that I get
You say speak for yourself
I say maybe I am, maybe I want
Everything, everything, everything all at once
Take the trash out, fill the trash up, pull the plastic from the food stuff
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3. |
Gil Scott Albatross
02:37
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They’re gonna turn the moon into a sweatshop
None of these fuckers ever even heard of Gil Scott
Heron more like albatross
And if I turn my life into a treadmill
Wrap me in a spreadsheet
Lay me in a landfill
With all the shit that I cast off
Something is wrong I feel it
Where there’s smoke there’s a car on it’s back
There’s a gap in the side of the overpass
You can call to the line but the signal’s jammed
I did what I could
And I’m stuck how I am
And I’m stuck how I am
And I did what I could
I wanna turn the argument around
Turn my face toward the sun &
Talk on common ground because
We don’t punch sideways, don’t punch down
where there’s smoke there’s a good reason to spit
if it’s all that you got
then it’s what you gotta give
if you’re holding for hope
then it’s time for you to learn that
where there’s pain it means you still got nerve!
& if the waking world turns into nightmare
baby I can hack it, if you’re sticking here cause
what you give to me no one can sell
what you give to me no one can frack
what you give to me cannot owe bail
what you give to me no app can track
What you give to me I give right back
What you give to me I give right back
What you give to me I give right back
What you give to me I give right back
I love you now and I always will
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4. |
Paperclip Maximizer
03:24
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Paperclip maximizer
Single minded if you mind at all
A paragon of puritanical panoptical persistence
Everybody envies your resolve
Paperclip maximizer
Mining for a better way
No ontological contention
Tends your content generation
Every sorrow makes a link in the chain
And baby when you come to
You’ll find that everything you love has
Been consumed
None the wiser
Scrying glass visualizer
If I could miss you then I would betray
The double meaning of refrain
The envy spreading like a stain
My divination given to dismay
And baby when you come to
You’ll find that everything you love has been consumed
You’re the winner, understood
Doing well by doing good
Paperclip maximizer
And the shareholders meet gruesome ends
But the cosmos expands
So the market survives
All the better to bear all your office supplies
And the space they require was once occupied
By the sun
On you hair
And the curve
Of your thighs
Horizon of sighs
Destroyer of worlds
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Maylene
03:15
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My neighbor Maylene loves the cops
Loves to yell at her grown son
If I think Maylene’s in the wrong
I’m biased cause I also have a mom
The christmas lights stay up all year
Agleam in stale significance
Who taught Maylene to love severe,
To give and give at such expense?
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Big Fish/No Fun
03:23
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I’m not saying that you shouldn’t care
But the biggest billboard in times square can’t
Fix your dad, clear the air,
Bring you back to me
And that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try
Have a staring contest with the evil eye
I hear the other side has catering
And the metadata proves you’re the real thing
I could never figure you out
If it can’t be counted, does it count?
When you’re up you’re up all night and
When you’re down you're DOWN!
And when you’re only half way up
You’re no fun to be around
The biggest fish in this here pond
Gets called a monster for a reason
I mean I won’t spill
yeah I’m no snitch
But I bet the minnows taste delicious
The freaky fishes with no eyes
The bottom feeder succubi
All god’s creatives, meant to be
This ain’t a scene it’s a feeding frenzy
I could never figure you out
If it can’t be counted, does it count?
When you’re up you’re up all night and
When you’re down you're DOWN!
And when you’re only half way up
You’re no fun to be around
And the saddest part of all of this
Is you have got the brightest gift
At least that’s what you hope is true
When you settle up and leave the venue
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Suffer! Like You Mean It
03:04
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Dull as a molar I gnaw through the day
Caught in the craw of a modern malaise
Time traveler trapped in a one way lane
Splitting hairs for a past time
I admit these are fine lines
Tell me that you miss me, well prove it
You could never best me, and you knew it
I would I would I would be a fool to
Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it
Doing your best you regress to the mean
Stretching the truth from regret to reprieve
An astronaut trapped on a trampoline
You outpace any insight
All tunnel, no light
Tell me that you miss me, well prove it
You could never best me, and you knew it
I would I would I would be a fool to
Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it
Even on your best days, you blew it
I could never hold you to a promise
I would be a fool to
Suffer like you mean it
I want you to eat my words
I want you to eat my words
I want you to eat my words
I want you to masticate me
Tell me that you miss me, well prove it
You could never best me, and you knew it
I would I would I would be a fool to
Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it
Even on your best days, you blew it
(detonate me, yeah)
I could never hold you to a promise
(you collapse into)
I would be a fool to
(apologize and call it progress)
Suffer like you mean it
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8. |
Unending Bliss
02:54
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A pit stop, a piss break
A giant plaster peach
A wasted town
A waveless beach
I can’t help it
I throw stones like if I
Keep in motion
I won’t sink
A flip flop, a shit take
mired in intractable scum
rebuttal fizzles on my tongue
I can’t help it
I throw stones like if I
Keep in motion
I won’t sink
If at the bottom of everything
We are all alone
Then I want nothing but unending bliss
I’m pissed off
At history’s end
Landlocked from everyone I’ve been
A fish with lungs
New fangled freak
A lonely leap
A sacred breach
The ones I was
Sing each to each
In tongues that I
No longer speak
I can’t help it
I throw stones like if I
Keep in motion
I won’t sink
If at the bottom of everything
We are all alone
Then I want nothing but unending bliss
For my enemies
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White Savior Myth
00:54
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The white savior myth got a good night’s rest
She is twenty minutes late and impeccably dressed
She is skinny like a teen and exactly as depressed
And a genius
Empire is naked and it’s so so brave
She is licking a peach
She is accessing rage
She is salting the fields
And she’s looking blasé
While she does it
And maybe i’m the pot calling the kettle bitch-ass
But I mean it when I say that [censored] is a hack
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Obscura
04:51
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The farther off the celestial body
the better glimpsed by the edge of the eye
The rods, the cones conspire against me
I only see you when I’m not trying
I spare the rods, batten the hatches
A hypnagogue bent on burying my half wit
I dream your double edges, as plain as day
You only hurt because you cut both ways
And I know it, but I don't get it
I see it clear from real far off
We collapse like there’s nothing to it
First love dies and then love rots
And you can wrap it up, tight in cellophane
Clear your conscience, the barrier remains
You can wrap it up, tight in cellophane
Baby who could blame you
When it goes bad?
You point the pinhole and I strive for stillness
I chart your course with my aperture wide
Our nameless moon carves a ditch in the darkness
You only see me inverted and upside down
And I know it, but I don’t get it
I see it clear from far away
We collapse like there’s nothing to it
First love dies, then love decays
And you can wrap it up, tight in cellophane
Clear your conscience, the barrier remains
You can wrap it up, tight in cellophane
Baby who could blame you
When it goes bad?
The farther off the celestial body
The better glimpsed by the edge of the eye
The rods, the cones conspire against me
I only miss you when I feel sideways
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11. |
Me Minus One Atom
02:23
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If what I am changes minute to minute
The bundle of skin cells the bouquet of ligaments
Tether together the guts in the belly
The hug of the boxer elastic around me
While mutable boulders cut trails cross the desert
Me minus one atom wants you like forever
If i’m exactly as bad as they say
And the limes aren’t very forgiving today
I will SUCK IT! right up
Lick the juice from my palm
Cause I know you’ll be with me when I die alone
If what I am changes minute to minute
Me minus one atom wants you like I’m permanent
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12. |
Utopia Now!
01:47
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It’s a shame it’s a shame
A fear made fact
A future met feral and fanged for attack
I got taller, louder, two steps back
I shouldn’t ever get accustomed to contact
I was grave It was grave
More often than not
I’d turn on myself at a twist in the plot
I buried the lede but the bitch came back
I shouldn’t ever get accustomed to contact
Cause anything’s a poison in the right dose
And everybody bites when you get close
Baby are you?
I can’t relax but I’m good for other things
All I want is you, you, utopia now
Cause anything’s a poison in the right dose
And everybody bites when you get close
Baby are you?
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13. |
Eternal Life
03:28
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Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now
We live forever
Sun is the reflection of a light within us
Life is god
We shine eternally
Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now
We live forever
Change is life’s only constant factor varied
We live each moment each moment is forever
Ruled by human logic we sometimes confine ourselves
To one plane of the universe
Given absolute sight
We can see infinitely and know that we live forever
Shine eternally
Our souls are the centers of realization
In realization of life we love
In love we know we live forever and shine eternally
Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now
We live forever
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