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The Slow War of Plantae

by Captain Vulpine!

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Darby Spicer (Candle) A tapestry of circus, folk, vaudeville & rock music that never fails to please the ears & the soul. Captain Vulpine! is a musical genius that deserves his own cult following. See You In The Shadows… Favorite track: King Chthonica.
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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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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. --------------------- 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. ---------------------- 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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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 ---------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------- 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
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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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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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
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
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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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. -------------------- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 --------------------------------- 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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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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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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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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Captain Vulpine! Portland, Oregon

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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