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I can't feel you anymore
I'm dying, shivering cold.
A crystal ice bath in port wine
With electricity, oh tiny lightning
Branching
Through tendril trenches
Prancing like finches
Blanching while the witches
Cackle and bray
Like jackals and prey
Hack and decay
Tackle and slay
Dancing at the Not So Crystal Ball
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A Caustic Cathexis
02:08
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Gather round you sorry people
I'll tell you a tale of woe;
Life is full is disappointments everywhere you go
Sacrifice your stupid children, throw them to the sea
Spare them of this horrid earth, and the then you can be like me.
Penitence is pestilence and worship's for the weak
Your predilection is nothing but fiction, and joy, it's for the meek.
Suffering in succulence sensationally sweet
Succumb to my slithering
Sabotage salvation, the sensation's salacious, and gracious,
Just cease your blithering.
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Burning bridges to watch the fire
See them dance upon the pyre
When tricks of mind play your return
Recall the beauty
In which it burned.
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The look on your pathetic faces tells me I'm being immature
This perilous loquacity requires some tenacity
But really, I've never been so sure.
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Railbeast Company
04:11
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Pickle all your gutsies son
Tomorrow we hit steel
Able men and greenies rile
For namesake made in zeal
Strap yer boots up good and tight
Leave it to the rails
Conductor down to cabin boy
Work through the rain and gales
Grab your lady by the hand
But never say goodbye
Sentiment's a young man's game
So drink it down with rye
Oil the gears respect the rank
Mind the coal, behave
Careful round the overdrank
They'll lead you to the grave
You'll learn to ghost the town
Learn when to fight or kneel
You'll learn to kiss the ground
And work for every meal
Obey the railman's law
Live the railman's way
Heave 'til your hands are raw
You'll live to see new day
Cunning as the fox
Agile as the ape
We're in this metal box
Until we reach the cape
Thankful to the stars
Bitter at the mud
You'll learn to fight the war, son
Just for a taste of blood
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Oh my little princes, come home to me!
How I love you so
Heaven's a garden won't you join?
Let me mend your soul with golden needles
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You'll sacrifice your limbs
You'll turn to fairy dust
Acquainted with the Grim,
Your skin begins to rust
You'll bellow at the moon
While you eat your fellow man
If you weren't born for war son,
It's best you fuckin' ran
Do it for your ma, son, do it for your gran
Do it for your countrymen, do it for your clan
Raise the flag for Vaudesworth, take a goddamned stand
We'll all be dead tomorrow son, so do it while you can.
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Bleak Chique
03:03
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I watched my kid die today
But I knew I was dreaming
I never thought I'd be this way
But I still wake up screaming
I pulled the trigger on my own fate
and I'm kept alive by only my own hate
I never fought to see the day
where joy swelled from the well
And I never thought I'd burn the hay
to send the needle to hell
I broke my vows for a drop in the bucket
and I took a bow, tied the noose, fuck it
I'm okay
not being okay, but I'm not okay
and everyday
I'm loose clay collapsing, fire the kiln it's cold anyway
I hate myself enough
I hate myself enough
I don't hope you're happy
But I hate myself enough.
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Un in the Stables
03:17
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Place all your eyes upon this kitchen table
Are we able to see this through?
Don't act surprised, we all knew the fable
We read the label, tightened our screws
Can you hear it now out there in the stables?
How taut the cables, how thick the brew.
Bleed the empath dry, Oh my darling Mayble,
We knew
You knew.
Black out the moon
We'll see you soon
Bleed out the sun, little rat
And run run run
Build the beast in tallow, seal the cracks
In black ink, put it to the ax
Bind it up in twine of the mares blood
And mule hair, and tortoise wax
Feed it through the skull of the unborn child
It might be wild, so pay the tax
Eat the liver mush of the god seed
It will be bitter, but it could be worse
Sun out the moon
Black out the blood
Show me your mouse little boy
Go hide in your balloon.
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Born under the wrong kind of moon
Sentenced before his first noon
A dead radio's only tune, what a maroon
What style, a face even mothers revile
Brain filled up wholly with bile
He's gonna be here a while
I started off young I saw the world strangely
I ate fellow children they thought me deranged
But I tasted their auras, they tasted like noise
Their souls were empty and fuel for the void
I played the part, I suffered and fought
They chewed on my feelings and left me to rot
But I decompose in the strangest way
Despite my best efforts I wake up every day
Born under the wrong kind of moon
Sentenced before his first noon
A dead radio's only tune, what a maroon
What style, a face even mothers revile
Brain filled up wholly with bile
He's gonna be here a while
When I got older I learned to compose
But still decompose mostly in prose
Slowly I learned if there's something you yearn for
Give it your all and it's still gonna burn
Nothing ever meant anything
Just give it a go
Just give her the ring
You'll be somebody's everything till you're not, so practice your grieving.
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Deadlights in Bloodbrine
05:30
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The deep waters
When the mist is low
The cackling moon reflects Johnny
A bloodtide spray on the ports below
The lingering tears spell Johnny
Green in the orbs and roaring
Seeping like tar up the mooring
Flicking his tongue for a goring
It's him, Deadlights Johnny
Oh my dear son
Why hasn't he come home?
Ne'er cried a word of leaving
The shore takes my mind
While the oceans they roam
To leave wailing mothers a'grieving
Gang up yer dunnage and warble
Invoke your saints to the Swan
Flank 'fore your swallowed in barbel
It's Johnny, Deadlights John
"Chainshot?" Like daisies
"Powderkeg?" Like snuff
"Invocation?" Maybe,
A bluster avails a bluff
Immerse yourself in the bloodbrine
It's John, Deadlights Johnny
I plead to the tome, but where has it gone?
The tar feathered texts of the Swan?
I'd pray grant me clemency for the sins of my son
But if you will the undoing, won't you make it me who's undone?
Fang the narwhal and powder
Decant the cipher in dregs
Steady your voice man, and louder
Tonight you earn your sea legs.
John, Deadlights Johnny
You'd better thank your mommy
Johnny, Deadlights John
Catch you on the next run.
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Odding Falls
01:27
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Evening cracks like a bad egg
Seeping scurvied thoughts like decaying canonic dailies
Every lost second is an apocalypse for trillions of things never comprehended by those burdened with self importance
Looking one way into two way mirrors
Aghast at the scrutinized knowledge of presence
Make up a face. No different then making up anything
Will you wait for a man with no future to tell you all about his past?
Will you sit there and wonder "how long will this last?"
For the convenience of my short-sightedness
You will be my stepping stone to the spark and fade of cyclical mediocrity.
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Saturniners
02:42
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Saturnine boys sitting on a log
One picked his nose and fell to the hogs
Saturate boys boiling in a well
One sinks beneath to investigate hell
Seven little dipshits snacking on their dipsticks
One licked his lips and tripped in poison stitches [still dead]
Six little hicks kicking at the sticks, one hit a root and his foot
Stuck in the soot
And the whole thing came off with his boot
Five still alive fell in a hive
Four hit the floor but the other one died
Three in the tree, not allergic to bees
But the other boy fell and shattered his knees
Two feeling blue, started up a stew
Its parsnips and onions and carrots and Lou
One starts to cry, he says his goodbyes,
He walks off a cliff while the last one wonders why
A saturnine child, eyes looking wild
Chokes down the stew and forces a smile
He cleans off his plate, his eyes filled with hate
He runs home to mum all covered in crumbs
He tells her the truth, he cannot be soothed
She's angry and stupid, she curses her cupid
Her husband's a drunk, her child's a fool
Why didn't you just drown in the pool?
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Carrion Castigator
02:53
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Sailing along on to Gallow's Row
Trying to find my fate
I hung myself with sails
So the wind would guide my way
Swinging there on broken branches, I'm a child again
How comforting to know that the beginning predicts the end.
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Carry on, Carrion.
Sick looking dog with a vagrant man
They comfort each other as best they can
But they both deny their animal needs
They don't eat each other so they both deplete
But man I know if one of 'em goes, the other one bites off the weaker ones nose
Man's best friend, or man's best man, we all end up as food for crows
Carry on, Carrion
Looking in the muzzard's glass eye she sings,
She's grateful for all of these beautiful things
She dreams of flowers, She dreams of rings
Dreams of all the things her life could bring
The heroin's sweet, the money is good
She's finally gonna get out of the neighborhood
She winds up in a third world country out of her mind on a dirty mattress
Where a train of paying strangers fucks the last bit of life out of her.
And she carries on She carries on. Why?
The drugs don't work, the smokes don't work, he says his prayers and he goes to church
But then more problems there arise, he takes communion while they're rubbing his thighs
But people keep breeding and bleeding and searching for meaning
When all of it dies, yeah all of it goes, even the buzzards lick buzzard bones
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Keepers of the Ossuary
01:32
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I never cried when it fell by the wayside
[Except for everyday]
I never lied about the other girls, ever
[Except in every way]
I always meant it when I said I need to be alone
[But I never do]
And I meant it when I said I hated everyone, except for you
[That included you]
I always loved you more than anything ever
[That much is true]
I always wanted us to be forever
[Just far away from you]
I only wanted us to be together
[So nobody else could have you]
I've never smiled more than being right next to you
Furthermore, fuck you.
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King Chthonica
03:50
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Drunk on a cup of bitter, you drank it to its dregs
You washed it down with butterflies while chewing on their legs
At least he kept his cage clean, that's more than I can say for you
Oh, and there's no god, but I'd still never pray for you
Your addiction, malediction, so transfixed on this fiction
Your haste for elation fills an infirmary full of my patience
You're like the ocean, full of monsters
You're like the sea but you're not that deep
You're like a lake, man made and fake
You're like a pond, scum and beyond
You're like the stars, dead light
You're like the moon, half the time out of sight
No life, no fight, but damn, you look good at night
Lacuna
Bacchanalia
Aphasia
Effigy
Read the runes
In cartoon
Detune the way you see
Dysthymic demimonde, a nickel store paradigm
Penny for your rotting petals, I see truth in the slime
I ate away your character, I hid up in the clouds
I peaked inside of heaven, you're gonna hate what I found
I plucked a heart string from your savior, and swallowed it with glue
I cut the strings from every cloud, and they fell down from the blue
And one more thing, I took every angels wings
And I spat in the face of the man at the gates
I ploughed the streets of gold
I took a fair price for all my hate and
I pawned it for some souls
'Cus I'm sick, sick
666
Sexsexsexsexsex
And the other guy thanked me for all of my work
Said if I weren't so bad at suicide
He would've taken me deep down into the murk
And had me by his side
But I remembered my whole life and the tragedy it was
I never really got a kick out of misery, I just liked my own blood
So I bowed out proud, and vowed to nothing ever again
And smiled in pride with my eyes open wide and embraced oblivion.
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Old Misery's House
03:38
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In banausic failure, I devalidate
My catafalque vandalized by people I hate
My ghost is risible, haunts only itself
It's not only visible, it sits on the shelf
And it waits by the ledger
While the inkwell dries up
And it laughs at the author and drinking from his cup
It pities the oddments, these paperback relics
And the epigone gone with nothing to sell but
A man built of sawdust, painted well
Now he'll bore them in hell
[He'll be welcome
Come to hell, come
You'll be welcome
Come to hell son
You'll be welcome
Come to hell]
The chiaroscuro, black and blue
He ended in red, with his back to you
Deracinate him, and piss on his bones
What will they find when they search through his home?
Nothing it's broken, and devoid of hope.
Some say no one lived there at all.
A somnolent living.
A lacuna heart
A charnel existence in fugue from the start.
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A Dance for Malentina
02:42
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I was traveling down the only road I know
Traversing the unknown
Through a dense and troubling fog
Felt a yearning. took a turn and got mixed around
Caught a scent and the flick of a gown
Something's amiss in my little town
Took a path down a spiral wooden grove
But how was I to know
I'd meet my end, my betrothed?
She said "Hey, won't you hang up your rainy ways?
I'll be with you all your days"
Then she kissed me and we parted ways
Soon after in the ground a rumbling
My walls came crumbling
And I started tumbling
She was only there for a couple of hours
She stomped on all my flowers
She said "Don't worry love, they're gonna regrow"
I said "You'd better come over here, I've got something to show you"
I started peeling of my skin, so I could show her what's within
I'm not a monster, it's the thing beneath my skin
Started pulling out my brains so she'd know what I was saying;
It's not me, it's this mushy grey thing!
She told me that that was no excuse
She handed me the noose
Said the time was wrong, but she knew that all along
She said "Hey, won't you hang up your rainy ways? I'll be with you all your days"
Then she reared her head and bared her fangs.
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Exorcism Schism
04:31
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There is a sound beneath the ground below a town under a spiral crown of tyranny
I found a hound to track her gown and found her bound and drowned and broken, by the sea.
Upon my search I passed a church, I felt a lurch and heard the spastic frantic screeching of worshiping
They felt the light, felt him inside, they fought the fight, knew they were right
And then they killed my wife
Don't say your prayers, there isn't time
I leave my wreckage at the chime
The ether says it's in the cards
The other side sends its regards
She was my lark, she wasn't right
She was my dark in the light
She had her demons
Well I've got mine
I'll show the church my holy fire
Falling to the western edge of time
I summon Gaezel and saunter on inside
Calling to Sinzerel of the Grime
I enlist Azazel to join us and imbibe
Stalling and feeding from them I'm inclined to smile, I must confide
Falling and bleeding from their stymied patheticisms
I laugh and let my demons rise
Glanced at the place, set it ablaze and through the haze I swore
I hear a murmuring
I made my way through the maze and as I gaze upon the gore
Alas! A gurgling
It's some poor fool renouncing Christ, what a jewel this wretched feist
If I were nice, I'd let him die
But I've got needs and so do they
I let my demons at the prey
And call upon the frey
Hell comes from behind the eyes
Your god's a sickness, forsake the tithe
Fulcrum circumspect lies
Saw the sickness in hive and flies
Legion inhabits, defies
You fought the thicket, beseech the tide
Welcome to the other side
You bought the ticket, now take the ride
Keine Entschädigung für schwache Seelen
Hell comes from behind the eyes
Your god's a sickness, forsake the tithe
Fulcrum circumspect lies
Saw the sickness in hive and flies
Legion inhabits, defies
You fought the thicket, beseech the tide
Welcome to the other side
You bought the ticket
Jetzt du sterben
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Atavist Alley
03:08
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The black lights are spilling all their secrets again
Like the color of mopped blood, the color of sin
There is no truth but it's in the flies
It's in the broken teeth, and the tears from her eyes
Particle perceptions, rot and decay
You can look at the horror in the DNA
But when all that flesh starts turning grey, well
Come what may.
Matter Spatter
Prowling in the dark yeah, hands in his pockets
Wearing sunglasses but there's nothing in the sockets
Pissing down rain on the freezing dock yeah it's
Time to unhinge that jaw.
Long black gloves and a tongue to match it
He lights a cigarette with fingertip matches
He's looking for the nest yeah, itches for scratching
And he chops up the young one with teeth like hatchets
Matter Spatter
Chewing on a bible page to black his tongue, he winks at a rat while he's loading his gun
Sucking down lies in the ink make's him hungry
An old world god to a modern day junkie.
He speaks to the sea when he spits out the ink, and it mixes with blood in the kitchen sink.
The sea spits back, says "Jack where you been? Our time is up, let's begin the end."
Lipstick to nail grime to dog sick and street slime
Hair slick and petty crime, fingerprints on dirty dimes
Gun powder, face powder, discharge (say it louder)
Blood, Bile, Blood, Bile, Blood, Bile
Matter spatter.
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The Photographer
02:49
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Black daffodils in the iris of a meaty old crow, reflected and reflected upon
To alchemize a moment transparent in snow.
Hey! Welcome to the Great Harvest of Nothing. The entirety of it.
May I see your tickets please? Ah, yes. You'll be in the second to last row for eternity. Forever. Pity.
Should've sprung for the premiere seating, it's quite a show.
Complimentary biscuit?
"Looking sharp mate"
That was my pet biscuit, he just complemented you. He's hilarious.
So I'm like the resident poet around here. Wanna hear one?
A mouth full of ash
A mouth full of dirt
A mouse full of fire with a soul full of hurt
A cull full of bitter, a cup full of winter.
I'll burn in my ugliest shirt.
I'm gonna call it "Spider Whiskey".
Pretty cool huh? Pretty deep right?
So anyway, you're dead. This is what you would call an afterlife?
What a stupid word, it's a continuation of life, except you're being punished this time.
More so than the last time, I mean
This whole thing? what we're living in right now, what we're hearing and seeing,
Is based off of your shitty art that you've been inflicting on people for years.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
And now you have to live in it.
[It is perfectly unpeculiar to experience trepidation during treppaning.
Though, a perpetually pregnant mind only capable of miscarriages may lead to success by way of freakshow magnetism.]
So... what does that mean?
I mean, you wrote it.
My penny-farthing wrote a song. It's the shittiest bicycle and it wrote the shittiest song, but it's still better than this
Oh by the way the secret to all of earth the whole time is that love is ultimately a destructive force.
Not a one of you figured that out.
Also all art is bullshit. You didn't figure that out either.
[Crisis buys it's rights by night in vices fair and clear
Hedonistic simpletons perplexed by every mirror
Able bodied simpletons with squishy little brains
Let them do their little dance and we'll chew the remains]
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A Casual Rivening
03:21
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Read 'em and weep.
I live up in your bones
Infect your thoughts and your home
I'm the blood in your walls
Whatever you've done, I've seen it all.
I'm the old things at the pawn shop
The ambassador of mean
I was in the cameras at your wedding
April First, something
Trust me, I'm in in your sorrows
I'm in the mask, I eat tomorrows
No one knows who I am
I could be you, I could be them
Fear me, I'm in the waters,
I'm in the sky, I'm in the gutters
Nothing can ever stop me
I'm just a copy of a copy of a man
I'm in the games you play to make yourself feel smart
I'm in your firstborn son, darkening his heart
I was in the ink when you scribbled your first rhyme
And I'll be in the clock on your deathday, when it's time
Tick tock.
Tick tock
Talk talk talk.
Trust me, I'm in in your sorrows
I'm in the mask, I eat tomorrows
No one knows who I am
I could be you, I could be them
Fear me, I'm in the waters,
I'm in the sky, I'm in the gutters
Nothing can ever stop me
I'm just a copy of a copy of a man
[untranscribable demon babble and robot fuckings]
Trust me, I'm in in your sorrows
I'm in the mask, I eat tomorrows
No one knows who I am
I could be you, I could be them
Fear me, I'm in the waters,
I'm in the sky, I'm in the gutters
Nothing can ever stop me
I'm just a copy of a copy of a copy.
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Oeterlornge
04:07
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Drink up that fire and scorn
When was the real you born?
You're pages, you're torn
From the book of Oeterlornge
The fruit in a bucket of flies
Living their own little lies
Sweet sugar demise
In the lives of Oeterlornge
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The tingling of an ocular glitch
Tied by the angriest stitch
Which witch is which
In the eye of Oeterlornge?
Praying to some kind of god
Wouldn't it strike you as odd
The wrath from the rod
In the sod of Oeterlornge
Dark passages arise when deepest passions grin.
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Phlogiston Scarolers
03:47
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Slick cat smiling in a crooked vest
Eyes the eggs, eyes the nest
Quick claws clacking at the maple tree
"Not so quite a raven thee"
Quid pro quo so goes the crow
Cat's eye buried in the grey moon glow
Rat-a-tat tat on the window sill
Crow is not but poison quills
Black eyed badger and a bag of bones
Sleeps in the riverbed of stones
Crack crack crack on a supine skull
Down the endless rabbit hole
"Worms screaming the mud's always sweeter
Gravid hosts mourn their babies ghosts."
Beetles braying at the cattle call
Needles spraying at the muzzard brawl
Brass Jaw Johnny what a referee
But his clacking teeth betray his glee
Big black blizzard and the storm around
Lizard misers underground
Rooted trees and a worm parade
In the lupine motorcade
Freeze us! Our Peccadillos! Oh, Inexorable!
Your virulence is owed us! Our foetid febrile sibilance!
Serpenteens usurp their queen
Slurping up her heart and spleen
Blood for all by blood for one
Cancer's growing in the sun
Planetside at the Thistle Room
Rancid whistles thin the gloom
Ceilings cloaked in an absinthe fog
Rattleships launch at dawn
The Most Brutal Insect Fuckings.
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There's the ghost of a pigeon on a very large cracker
"What a smacker!"
Little bastard that's mine, go away!
Sod off my snack little bugger, get cracking!
Haunt some other little lackey and their tea time food!
What's going on in the underworld, rambler?
Why you even here mate?
I'll ring yer ghosty handler
I'll re seal your fate
You're a mannerless git aintcha?
No wonder you're dead
Yeh could never keep yer grubbies off another man's bread!
"but the cracker"
What?
Why was it so large?
I don't know. Maybe the pigeon ghost was just very small
There's a regular cracker and a tiny ghost pigeon
"How you gonna haunt mate, you're nothing but a smidgeon!
Yeh barely even bite size, you minuscule git
What say I chomp you down and be done with it!"
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Nail on, the railway sea, I'll find my way back to thee
Through muzzard entrapments I'll fight with glee
I'll sail my way back to thee
Though tracks run out, a bout of mud gout
Iron splinters and greed
Our shanty's our ballads and all we've decreed
We'll make our way back to thee
Nail on nail on
The tracks don't build themselves
Sail on, sail on, swing yer bloody helves
Pail on, pail on buckets for the well
Quell yer fears through hell man
To get back to yer bells.
Stranded and blanched on an island true
I'll make my own way through
Bridges are burning but the air runs blue
I'll walk my way back to you
Through blizzards and rain, the ails of my brain,
The thought of another brew
Raw gizzards and stains, though I may wain
I'll sing my way back to you
Nail on nail on
The tracks don't build themselves
Sail on, sail on, swing yer bloody helves
Pail on, pail on buckets for the well
Quell yer fears through hell man
To get back to yer bells.
Through torture and fever
And my old cook's clever
Through all I ever knew
I'll crawl through the maw
And damn the law
I'll work myself raw
For you my doll
I'll break from the jails
Through storm and hail
I'll suffer the wait
For you my queen.
I can still murder you.
Heave ho
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Year of the Nightmare
04:09
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Drunk down by the riverside
That night in October
I opened up an artery and let my feelings spill upon the leaves
I felt happy,
Knowing it was over
It was over.
Imagine for a moment that we were on to something,
Now take into account that it was all for nothing
I know that you know that I hate you
Yes, I hate you. With everything in me I abhor you
Sure I adored you but now,
I don't know what I'll do.
[Everybody knows
Everybody's coming to the show
Nobody knows,
Nobody's coming to the show]
Imagine for a moment that all of it was real
How would anyone feel?
Sleeping in dirt
The birth of hurt
Scratching into your world
I hate you.
I feel ill.
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24. |
The Tyranny of Clocks
01:36
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The worst hard time I ever knew
Was caused by me and you
I'm face down in rat piss
Spitting bone.
The worst hard time the blackest blues
Seen through reddish hues
I'm viscera leaking out of my shoes
Oh hard time, the wrong time, the bad rhymes
I know I'm the worst agglutination of bad molecules.
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Culled from the muzzard infested lands of inbetween, Captain Vulpine wanders the ever-dying mortal world in search of nothing at all. Shortly after discovering whiskey, all was lost- and the disastrous memoirs of lands and minds long since gone now linger in these culminations of manifested misery and madness. ... more
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