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no periphery
02:22
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Merchant man
Please help me with my vision
As I keep my head in the sand
Or you can help me help myself
Like a god that’s on the lam
Live in another’s head and
See that that’s what I am
I’m the frozen wastelands
Turned my habits inside out
Took the longest, sweetest breath
And then learned to go without
I’m the urban theatre
No periphery in our lives
Artists without borders
Always sick from living right
So use my eyes
So sad that we’re all the same
Person, paralyzed
Or you can show me to myself
Like an orchid trapped in time
The end is built into the beginning
And the middle’s all a lie
So I’m another nothing
Born with puppet strings tied up
Took a look over my shoulder
You were there and they were cut
I’m a raging cancer
No periphery in our lives
Brain is hurt and lungs are dry
And heart ain’t ticking right
Beyond a metonym
Being me, no, not him
Docking the neck of sin
With no periphery
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2. |
adrift in a dream
02:09
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3. |
psychotic mathemagic
00:59
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This time we’re gonna fucking nail it
Home improvement homo sapien
Psychotic mathemagic
How long’s a piece of string?
Too cool for quantum
Black hole centrefold
In the beginning
There was the masterpiece
Everything and nothing
The singularity
So swings the pendulum
Coming into being
And passing away
Coming into being and
Just passing by
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4. |
everyone is broken
02:08
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It is true
We’re not all equally imbued
With those beautiful eyes, those alone can view
Beauty, beauty
Takes one to know, seen askew
Made up minds and made up faces too
But I don’t see why we all must see
More than the truth of rotting teeth
Incapable of stepping back for a moment from yourself
To see your undulating broken breath
Grotesque and unspoken
Everyone is broken
So I ask why
Even though I know it’s not defined
Face I must include myself in my
Self-effacement
Oh my fucking god, you’re all broken eyed
Shattered mirror glass jaw, so am I
Incapable to stand away, take a good look at yourself
To see your own corrupted broken breath
Universal but token
Everyone is…
Pot calling a kettle only half full
Through bloody lips stuffed with cotton wool
A distant look of pain you think I can’t see
But derelict facades crumble eventually
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5. |
one for the dead homies
02:15
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Is this something I can say?
That you know someone who has died?
But if so far that’s all Ok,
Is it just them keeping you alive?
Pour your heart out
If it’s true
That though we’re different
I’ll die like you
So pour your drink out
If it’s true as well
We’re still together
While others fell
Is this something I can say?
That you know someone who has died
But if so far that’s all Ok,
Is it just them keeping you alive?
So here’s a toast to being lonely
I’d raise a glass, but to whom?
But seriously, let’s not let only
The dead be alive in this room
This is something I have said
I made it real just through sheer will
So let us drink to our dead
But remember that we’re also here still
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6. |
found out
02:08
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7. |
alcopharmakon
02:28
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On the mithridating scene
They say prevention is better than cure
But they don’t know what they mean
Value my health above all else
At least until I get to the off licence
Vaccination coming up
A little venom makes so much sense
I’ve got the poison, I’ve got the remedy
I’ve got a dog that’s always chasing me
Chasing me down
To offer me a haircut
To offer me canine offcuts
To offer me a haircut
What’s your poison?
Mine’s the cure.
Hungover or tee-total
It’s like bark versus bite
Pharmakon alcoholic
You say prevention is better than cure
But then I would never drink
Value yourself over everything else
I had a shine on mate, so no offence
So many excuses coming up
A little hangover again, makes sense, again
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8. |
the age of age
03:03
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Oh well done you, another day, you're still here
Congratulations for breathless breathing
A racing heart, a healthy smile, then disappear
Want to grow old with you, you ageless thing
Run this gamut, my favourite mirror, hold me near
All records sampled, then smashed and sealed with a wink
But then I get to think
Can this really be enough?
Stay on an endless brink
Instead of learn how to best jump off?
Have we thought this through?
I see cracks all though this idea
And now they've spread to you
We want to make sure life is long
A compass direction lottery
A childhood rite for a silent swan song
But what about a better death for you and me?
Something worth holding onto not just grimly holding on
Halcyon days halted only hedonically
Not a slew of waking comas while you wait for that last gong
Because there’s nothing wrong
With thinking you want more
Than life stretched out so long
That you’ve forgotten what it’s for
So much talk of dignity
When the fountain of youth
Will drown us eventually
An age of age
So unengaged
All the world’s a stage
But you just face away
The age of age
You just turn away
You tread the boards
But dread being bored
The show must go on
Your time is abroad
As we get old
We tread a border
Well, fuck the distance
And make life broader
As we get old
We tread a border
So fuck the length
And make life broader
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9. |
enemy lines
02:32
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Two sides survey the enemy lines
Each one waiting for a saviour
Each one knows the true direction
No moderation in the echo chamber
We dictate what constitutes reason
Accepting nuance is the road to danger
So crazy and so in need of saving
Sitting in judgement on their behaviour
Pass the buck from left to right
Forcing down every other ideology
Opposites attract to repel all-comers
Everything governed by the same duopoly
Our grown up world and you’re all children
Bait and switch and bread and circus
We set rules that can’t be questioned
Indoctrinated so they can’t desert us
It blows my mind every time I hear you talking all your squealing and your squawking all you’ve been regurgitating you just spew it out verbatim with no hint of mastication
And it breaks my heart how you wallow in your faking you construct of your own making a glass box that echoes breaking all your own communication can’t resist a little shaking
So I lose my shit when I think for just a bit about the points that you just hit and how you think you’ve captured it but when in fact you’re full of shit and you really have to quit
And my bile starts to rise when I look in your eyes and see the darkness that’s inside and all the things you try to hide behind this stupid pack of lies you’re completely terrified
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10. |
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A billion hearts, a billion voices screaming all at once
Each one wants to make the choices with no compromise
There’s no mitigating excuses, extreme prejudice
No space for another viewpoint, that’s just how it is
Tell me how to change the mind of a world that’s deaf and blind
There’s no place that we can be ourselves
Sheer monotony, it thrives on mediocrity
We must resist this paradigm
Here’s a problem with no solution but to start again
Send them into cleansing fires, we’re all minutemen
Instantly construct a border, lock them all outside
All insist that they marauder, they’re dehumanized
Tell me how to change the mind of a world that’s deaf and blind
There’s no place that we can be ourselves
Sheer monotony, it thrives on mediocrity
We must resist in what we do and claim our lives anew
Here comes the change of order
The new guard gives no quarter
Resistance cannot fester
They’re watching, poised for slaughter
Lo has come another order
There’ll be no mercy, no looks behind
Collared by the crutch of commerce
And up on that cross all the time
There can be no dissention
They’ll tolerate no tension
It’s futile to mention
Or dare to hint to question
Order up, the new world’s fine
A wooden posture, rigid hairline
A tender form of governance
More than bedfellows, state and trade
But that’s to say, cash tenderness
The future’s bright, the future’s spray-tanned
The future’s bright, the future’s spray-tanned
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soramimi London, UK
what a bunch of divs. maxim is, like, majorly melodrummatic. seed tars every git with the same brush. the low end on keef makes for good grief. occasionally people shout, occasionally they're in the band.
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