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The Thing and the Other Thing
This is the thing
And this is the other thing
This is the thing
(There is a gap between the man I think I am and who I really am)
And this is the other thing
(I’m taking the liberty of speaking on behalf of both of us)
This is the thing
(There I am across the main divider)
And this is the other thing
(Singing to myself again, la da dum)
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Wunderkind
01:49
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Wunderkind
The miasma got redirected
Into the headlights of complacency
Where the coddled tyrant wept
Into a handkerchief of memories
Beneath an onion flavored sky
Breathing down on Custer’s cavalry
Who though legless and half conscious
Drank to better days and victory
In the morning they ate lunch
So as not to underestimate
The precision with which minutes
Outrun those who would procrastinate
While their daughters and their sons
Sip mimosas out at Wimbledon
Because the children who dig ditches
Bring bag lunches with sandwiches
Contrary to opinion
He was something like his sister
Who decapitated penguins
From a distance
Just with scissors
Cutting through the dead of winter
Like a fighter plane messiah
In a silver spoon airliner
Across France and Asia Minor
The pontificating orphan
Preached to throngs in Central Africa
With his mother taking notes
For his dad the Deus ex Machina
Who is caring for the kid
With big ideas and no direction home?
As annoying as he is
He’s still our kid,
He’s still our kid
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The Common Denominator
03:14
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The Common Denominator
Japanese riflemen sip ceremonial tea
Amidst thunder bolts of silence
Mixing the sacred with science
The cocoa butter sonata
In the background at Camp Grenada
Makes the natives dance and sing
As the camera records everything
The American-Americanizer
Never look direct into the light
He wanna see how they rise and they fall from the highs to the floors tonight
Sweet Scent of magnolia from late 1934
Wafts through the space station floor
Where they keep two of every animal
Everyone’s welcome here
We’ve got a common denominator
For every vulgar fraction
To begin interaction
The American-Americanizer
Never look direct into the light
He wanna see how they rise and they fall from the highs to the floors tonight
The American-Americanizer
Never look direct-out from within
He wanna see how they rise and they fall from the highs to the floors tonight
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Caterpillar Wishes
02:32
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Caterpillar Wishes
Chip on my shoulder
Its just the weight of the world
(Balanced on a boney blade)
I hear a symphony
Been keeping a back beat
(As the melody is played)
Hit on the three and five
Bird to nest bee to hive
I’m making my way up
Been climbing the food chain
(He’s been being very good)
I’ve been waiting patiently
With other species
(Caterpillars Wish they could)
Turn into butterflies
And take to the sky blue sky
- Can I get a witness, got to get a witness
Caterpillar Wishes he was blind
- Can I get a witness, got to get a witness
Making up his caterpillar mind
- Can I get a witness, got to get a witness
To drink from the nectar of the caterpillar gods
From the bottle of butterfly wine
I’ve been thinking it over
I’ve been thinking it over
And I believe it can be done
I’ve been testing the water
I’ve been taking readings
And I believe it can be done
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Everyone Here is Going to Die
Everyone Here is Going to Die
So at least have the decency to wave as you walk by
We're dropping like flies
Every hello and goodbye
Means something
Everyone Here is Going to Die
I'm as cynical as the next person
But Jesus Christ
I'm looking in your eyes
And right now you are alive
Yes it all really is...something
All your pretty flowers
And all of your friends
Will be coming to an end
So let's not pretend
Or act all cool about it
Everyone Here is Going to Die
And thats reason enough
To look'm in the eye
With the minutes moving by
This is no time to be bashful or aloof
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The Non Sequiturist
02:19
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The Non Sequiturist
All the clues that you will need
To transcend the body are in the body
Mazel tov said the Jew pilgrim
Not meaning it
The bravest people shit their pants
And proceed anyway
He was always a fan of disco
For fifty francs I’ll give you a fake compliment
For a hundred francs, a real one
And for a thousand francs I’ll …
Fret not my love
Tony Levin is in here
In the house
One man’s gargantuan error
Is another man’s measles shot
I’m forcing now
Use the Ford Luke
The endless potentiality of childhood
Makes a moron of death
Who
Though a moron
Is infinitely patient...
Unlike you
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Barry Got A Bum Deal
01:52
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Barry Got a Bum Deal
Barry Got a Bum Deal in the end
He was fucking off as usual
Daydreaming with his headphones on in the toilet
Alarms going off, whistles and sirens
Smoke plumes in the hallway
But all he heard was…
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all
Barry Got a Bum Deal in the End
He was fucking off as usual
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The Breakdown
01:34
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The Breakdown
Everything is bleeding together
Clock on the wall has stopped
Everything is bleeding together
Cant tell the difference between the bottom and the top
Everything is bleeding together
The sky and the tree and the you and the me
Everything is bleeding together
The length and the width and the stick you measure with
The Breakdown The Breakdown of left right and up down
No more parts or sections
No sense of direction
Everything is bleeding together
I had it all colored by the numbers
And now its all going over the lines
The Breakdown the breakdown of left right and up down
No sense of direction
No more parts or sections
The Breakdown
The Breakdown
The Breakdown The Breakdown of left right and up down
No sense of direction
No more parts or sections
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A Parallel Afternoon
02:20
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Fits And Starts
04:09
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Fits and Starts
The sun came up slowly
For a thousand years it was dark
And the ocean is melting again
Fits and Starts
I lost all sense of direction
Spent a thousand years finding one
I spent another thousand getting lost again
Fits and Starts
In the wreckage I have found you
Impossible and yet here you are
In the wreckage we move forward
In Fits and Starts
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Being And Time
01:54
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BEING AND TIME
After the fact comes the interpretation of the fact
After the feeling comes the recognition of the feeling
How can I know If I've ever been here
At all
How can I know If I've ever been here
At all
After the present comes the identification of the present
After the future becomes present its past
How can I know If I've ever been here
At all
How can I know if I am here at all
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12. |
14 Girls
01:39
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14 Girls
Dahlia in a dress, Madelyn cleaning up the mess
Grace can barely see over the head of Stephanie
Sarah’s pointing to the sky at Lorelei
Who’s hovering above the sea with Emily
Lollipops and Lace
Open Face
Sheetrock and pearls
14 Girls
Bridget’s in her prime, Jane retires sipping wine
A toast to Laura-Joe, she and Cheryl have to go
To Barbara’s in Bowling Green with Kathleen
Stopping once along the way to meet Renee
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Shazam
01:24
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They all seemed so courageous
Like Farrah Fawcett Majors
All that talk about bionics
And nowadays 6 million
Don’t even buy a catcher
They took you to a basement
To teach you about physics
But you ended up reading comics
On a dryer in New Brunswick
With a classmate in 77
He kept his cardboard gods
In the back of his parents’ van
Shazam
I believed in you
And I guess that I still do in a way
Despite all of the proof
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Precision
02:26
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The Sod Is Always Greener Than the Grass on the Other Side
The sod is always greener than
The grass on the other side
As the monkey flings his dinner plate
And flaunts his family pride
What your neighbor’s got
The thing you so desire
Isn’t half as good
As what the people
Down the block have
The sod is always greener than
The grass on the other side
An ape is waving to a fish
Across the great divide
What you think you want
Is simply not as good
As the other things you’ll want
Once you’ve got it
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17. |
Lucky Star
03:20
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Mark Lesseraux New York
Mark’s mother is Irish Catholic. His father was a Russian Jew. In the 2nd grade, Mark veered “off course”… secretly. It is not clear how the "thread" was lost, but it had to do with a botched reading assignment; a chapter in a blue and yellow book left unread. Later, there were 2 nervous system glitches and at least 2 ecstatic dot connecting sessions. Finally, a Need… to sing. ... more
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