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The Fish
02:29
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(spoken)
do you believe in reincarnation?
yes
what would you like to be reincarnated as?
a turtle
why?
because they live to be over 100 years old
if i believed in reincrnation
i wouldnt want to live 100 years as a turtle
id rather have a lot of beautiful short lives as
a butterfly and a honey bee.
things like that
(sung)
they showed me this big, ugly long fish
with eyes that bugged out
and told me this is what i will be
in the next life
i asked if i would still be who i am
stuck inside this fish body
and living in a fish world
they replied that no,
i would just be a fish
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In my life
Ive been squished between three trucks
Religion, politics and love
sexual selection
political election
religious misdirection
sometimes i feel like such a schmuck
I hate the fucking democrats
But i aint no damn republican
im an american
but my name aint smith or sullivan
In my life
Ive been squished between three trucks
Religion, politics and love
squished between three trucks
i believe the words of jesus
but i never go to church
i checked out each denomination
but now ive given up the search
In my life
Ive been squished between three trucks
Religion, politics and love
sexual selection
political election
religious misdirection
sometimes i feel like such a schmuck
squished between three trucks
She loved me
But she didnt want a baby that looked like me
Then another girl found me
She wanted to have a baby that looked like me
But she didnt love me
squished between three trucks
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3. |
FALL AWAY
02:48
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Fall away, fall away
From democracy
As the Catholics fell away from the church
As the communists fell away from marx
Fall away, fall away
From democracy
And then return
As the communists returned to marx
As the Catholics returned to the church
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4. |
CIVILIAN ATTITUDES
03:55
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They fought a war
For a piece of land
Nobody wanted
They marched
Through arid deserts
In military formation
There was no enemy in sight
And they hadnt fired a bullet in months
But they marched and stood guard
They were starving
on half rations
although the feed bags were full
when the pack mule died
They fed on its guts
while the officers ate its meat
a soldier was apprehended
when he left camp in the middle of the night
to take a piss
in the morning
he was shot
for desertion
another soldier was executed
for haiving civilian attitutdes
when he complained
"we are lost
in this country
far from our homes"
one by one
the soldiers were executed
for expressing civilian attitudes
and the officers
continued their war
against an enemy that was never seen
after several years, they came out of the desert
and declared the war over, planting their flag
in the center of an abandoned city
a city without water
where they died
like flies on a screen door
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5. |
CAMPAIGN OF HATE
03:23
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Your campaign of hate
Is a civil war against yourself
The opposition is everything
You hate about yourself
Everything you deny that is you
This is not a debate
Between two sides
Of an issue
It is an internal
Suicide of the boogie
Passing as surgery
He has done nothing
That you have not done
But his death
Will not redeem you
You have nothing to offer
Except hatred for the opposition
But his immorality
Does not make you moral
You are the greater of two evils
And you have always said
And believed
To the greater goes the victory
But this campaign of hate
Is a civil war against yourself
Two faces of death
Shadow boxing on cavern walls
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TRIAD ELECTION
Triad election
In the USA
Triad election
In the USA
Triad election
n the USA
Dont run against me
Drop out of the race
Support me for a second term
And I promise
You will be the next in line
Chairman of the Triads
Triad election
In the USA
Triad election
In the USA
Triad election
n the USA
Dont run against me
Drop out of the race
Support me for a second term,
And I promise
You will be the next in line
President of the Inited States
lies, propaganda
persons of interest
black book, ledgers
suicides and murders
investigations
indictments
vindications
pubilc opinion
media minds
Election
Elections
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7. |
THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN
03:30
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Tonight I am announcing
that the Amercan people
Are going to cut the cost
of the world's family
And we will make sure
that around the world
The American rescue plan
Includes Ukrainian people
Who are here with us tonight
thats why the United States
is able to pass the plan
tonight in America
and tonight Its time
To show what we can do
And i am going to
Pass the plan
To the new American world
And cut the costs of the family
Let's make this year one
We know we have the jobs
In the nation
And we care about the world
Its why we are and we can and we will
Make sure that families around the world
Will get the American rescue plan from us
so let's get the world into the plan
I am America
And I will rescue the world
For us, the Americans
And pass the American rescue plan
Around the world
And cut the costs of our nations jobs
And show the Ukranian people
And the world
What we can do.
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8. |
BELLS OF HELL
04:46
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for centuries
we have wondered what we are
whether we came from the mud of stink
or the blood of the gods
created and imprinted with the dna of immortality?
or just monkeys who learned to use fire and artillary?
theories and beliefs change with each age
until now, when we are too confused
to entertain either theory or belief.,
food of the gods or meat for the beasts?
with all of human knowledge at our fingertips
we are more ignorant than stone age man
looking for wisdom in the shell of a crab
politics is a material manifestation of religion
we choose our gods and the manner in which
we worship them and they rule us
we choose our own kings
and they determine our laws and morality
and we pretend to be a part of it
but we are no more a part of it
than we are a part of the cosmic order
are we become stupider by the day
in a world war there are muultiple winners
each country on the winning side
can exagerrate their part in the victory
but even after the last surrender
victory is never certain or final
because once the fuse is lit
a war can never end
when yesteday is always better than today
you have a span of years to live
and can never understand the world
if you only live within that span
already there are too few
who know anything about world war two
but the accounts are there to read
for anyone with a heart that bleeds
for people and things out of their range
who understands there is no change
just a circle circling a square terrain
and inside the cities on the plain the truth is slain
there are things people wont discuss
even though they are the ones who brought them up
only long enough to establish their views
and they cut off all who disagree
truth is, nobody knows anything
lies we have been told since birth
and as time goes by, it just gets worse
sometimes i wonder
if consiousness is real
or just a delusion
the brain has manufactured
to protect us
from knowing what we really are
the bells of hell are ringing
in the face of all this sadness
how can i keep on singing?
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9. |
OH, CASCADIA
04:07
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oh oh cascadia
Hard to stay lost
with a chip in your head
they will find you wherever you go
oh oh cascadia
You have a knife on your leg
and a gun in your sleeve
and a cabin in idaho
the revolution began in cascadia
where you established a peoples bank
you printed alternative money
when the countrys economy sank
you elected your own chosen leaders
and established your own set of laws
disregarding the reckless amendments
that persecuted you all without cause
oh oh cascadia
when the national gaurd and militia
surrounded you in the town square
and spoke to you with their machine guns
your screams penetrated the air
but there were more of you than they could handle
and you blew a hole in the sky
that rained down on all of their soldiers
till the last of their lackeys had died
oh oh cascadia
at sunrise they came with their choppers
and dropped the napalm on your town
but you had escaped to the mountains
where their troops couldnt follow you down
but you couldnt stay hidden forever
you spread ourselves out far and wide
but their electronic doggies will track you
and there is no place you can hide
oh oh cascadia
Hard to stay lost
with a chip in your head
they will find you
wherever you go
oh oh cascadoa
You have a knife on your leg
and a gun in your sleeve
and a cabin in idaho
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(drunk in the cocktail lound, mumbling to himself)
my bowels moved twice
one time orange
one time white
both came feom the same rump
i named one biden
the other trump
(the lounge singer)
play whatever you want to play
nobody is listening anyway
sing whatever you want to sing
nobody hears a god damned thing
wrap a sound around your head
turn it up and go to bed
play it loud play it deep
you're living in the land of sleep
its just a certain kind of noise
like santa playing with his toys
when its time for birds to die
in which direction do they fly?
to covers in an irish bar?
or woodwinds in a falling star?
aquariums of singing fish
turn off the lights and make a wish
nothing flat and nothing sharp
when the devil plays the sacred harp
the sound you are surrounded in
is just the marching of the tin
white water drunks on a crashing river
while sober voices make her shiver
to be no more what she has been
that bird will never fly again
the hour has come a song will stir
you from the nest of hummingbirds
and when your daddy tucks you in
ask him to sing that song again
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11. |
FLY AWAY
03:39
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i kill
but id rather hike in small places
away from expanses
or sniper embraces
yet still
i crave the open plain
and vacant glances
i hide
in human camouflage
moving like a lizard from a rock
through their barrage
i tried
to lay out those i killed
and soothe them with small talk
My head is a box of pain
And I fall
Into the ranks of the insane
i hate
this uniform and everything
for which it stands
i wait
for a clean shot
into the heart
of the officer in command
when they hang me for treason
high above my moral ground
i will not give my reason
i will die, hanging proud
above all their carnage i will swing
in the breeze
while they fall to their knees
becoming one with the region
i shake the devil from my brain
and escape
from the ranks of the insane
i hike
through these small places
away from expansions
and sniper embraces
i have killed
but will kill no more
fly away, fly away
fly away from these wars
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