1. |
01. Up &Down
02:10
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i will never stop
i will never fail
i will keep pushing
after you all bail
how could i ever die
i feel so alive
the ground is mine
the sky is mine
i am the conquerer
i will always succeed
i word from me
brings nations to their knees
memorize the name
before it's too late
aw yeah
you best be aware
that you're staring
at the face of a great
cause what didn't kill me
just made me wanna die
so i over compensate
with confidence
cause I
still remember being a kid
and feeling like a total
idiot
i still get that way
from time to time
from time to time
from time to time
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I am
an atom in a sea
with a sea
of atoms
also within me
we used to be friends
I wonder if
we'll ever touch base again
you burned me
bad
it hurt my hand
but I understand
these things
have subtley
beyond my ken
I am too
coarse
too fast
too long without rest
but I'm ready to start again
remember dreaming
for hours at time
of varied
trajectories
in space and time?
we used to be friends
I wonder if
we'll ever touch base again
you burned me
bad
it hurt my hand
but I understand
these things
have subtley
beyond my ken
I am too
coarse
too fast
too long without rest
but I'm ready to start again
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Occam's razor
says:
do not substitute
the complex for
the simple
when the simple
will just as well do
i like that rule
that makes
sense to me
in the grand philosophical
scheme of things
that I've been constructing
since i knew how to construct things
I've got
dreams and plans
with all these opportunities
near my hands
and all I've gotta do
is just reach out and grab
there is a star
of david
on a tombstone
somewhere
in Ukraine
with my name on it
grandpa studied
the abstract properties
of information and logic
i like that dude
he makes sense to me
in the grand philosophical
scheme of things
that I've been constructed
since i knew how to construct things
i've got
dreams and plans
with all these opportunities
near my hands
and all I've gotta do
is just reach out and grab
them with you
i'll be fine
i'll be cool
and all i've gotta do
is just reach out and grab
them with you
i'll be fine
i'll be good
when you get down
to the core
ain't it all a big bore?
climbing the ladder
what's it all for?
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4. |
04. Words
02:50
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Had a lucky
but I dropped it the other
day
now I'm hungry
fucking coughing
won't go away
taking the lint
from my pocket
had a thought
but I just forgot it
had a headache
saw a medic
didn't go away
automatically
assumed
I would never fade
taking the lint
from my pocket
had a thought
but I just forgot it
taking the lint
from my pocket
now i'm ready to
rock it!
Without my words
I'd be dead
without lyrics
in my head
I think I'd wither
with a shiver
I'd be gone in the wind
without music
I'd be lame
silence is violence
I claim
I've waited
so long
to bust out and sing
wrote a letter
with a feather
just to know I could
something tells
me and brother
aren't doing good
taking the lint
from my pocket
had a thought
but I just forgot it
doing science
in defiance
of the teachers
who thought I was
a bone fide retard
taking the lint
from my pocket
had a thought
but I just forgot it
had a thought
but I just forgot it
and now I'm ready
to rock it
Without my words
I'd be dead
without lyrics
in my head
I think I'd wither
with a shiver
I'd be gone in the wind
without music
I'd be lame
silence is violence
I claim
I've waited
so long
to bust out and sing
why do you think
I had liberty spikes
at age thirteen
i'm not bragging
i'm just saying
look at the attention I was craving
even back then
way back when
when it felt like options were open
to me and my best friends
Without my words
I'd be dead
without lyrics
in my head
I think I'd wither
with a shiver
I'd be gone in the wind
without music
I'd be lame
silence is violence
I claim
I've waited
so long
to bust out and sing
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5. |
05. Sheet
01:47
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the first ever
party
I attended in college
was hosted
by
a jewish fraternity
I guess
I figured
since we all
had to memorize
our Torah verses
they'd all
be nice to me
but the cops showed up
not even five minute
I'd already
paid ten dollars
at the door
It was then,
hiding in that
New Brunswick
basement that
I knew
I'd be a hermit
from that day forth
oh
I don't know
who I am
but I have
an inkling:
what I am is drunk
fucked up
still a punk but (x2)
drunk
fucked up
still a punk but
filling up my head
with a lot of dumb stuff
drunk
fucked up
still a punk but
filling up my head
with a lot of dumb shit
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6. |
06. Lick your Toes
02:51
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what happened
to all the
parallel lines
you drew
on the chalkboard
you said they'd
go on forever
but never touch
well that's
just poetic
as hell
as far
as I can tell
that's
exactly
like us
which one
will give up
give up
give up
no one's
a straight line
everyone
gets stuck
i'll be your slave
i'll be your pig
I'll do whatever you ask
tell me to jog
and I'll run
circles
'round the rest
of your pets.
want me to bark
like a dog?
lick your toes
in the night?
Don't forget
that you own
me
so you can do
what you like
I don't care
memories form
and memories
fade
just like
the foam
atop
ocean waves
when they break
where I thought
of you
and wrote up
a song
it was this song
if this is
the best
the best I can do
I'd better
reassess my goals in
reference to you
before I
leave this shoreline
i'll be your slave
i'll be your pig
I'll do whatever you ask
tell me to jog
and I'll run
circles
'round the rest
of your pets.
live and let live
they say
but
I don't forget
I don't forgive
my ghost
will haunt you
as long as it lives
I don't forget
I don't forgive
my ghost
will haunt you
as long as it lives
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calm down
i'm telling you
calm down
it's almost over now
get ready to
land
calm down
breathe in
and breathe out
try to laugh out load
but not
so madly
one day
we'll both fall
right
into the mud
and despite all our
efforts
never stand back up
but hey
don't be mad
it's just the truth
of the matter
it never gets better
but hey
don't call it defeat
no one guarrenteed
that every time you
leaped
youd land back on your feet
waste not
your time
but spare no
clocks
clear your
whole place out
tear every
reminder down
lose your
mind if you
have to
said Jesus
to Matthew
just get the point
across
one day
we'll both fall
right
into mud
and despite
all our
efforts
never stand back up
but hey
don't be mad
it's just the truth
of the matter
it never gets better
but hey
don't call it defeat
no one guarrenteed
that every time you
leap
you'd land back on your feet
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8. |
08. Dark, Full of Stars
02:40
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the winter sky
was black
and full of stars
and I:
mechanical creature
with eyes
and heart
slithered
underneath
the brush nearby
far beneath them
searching for something
I lack
like a piece
of a puzzle
lost and never
coming back
the winter sky was black
and full of stars
and I
saw the solar system
form
and give rise
to a planet
hot
oceans swelling
thrashing alive
to
give way to life
the womb
that gave birth to Eve and Adam
who are the
oldest enemies
of you
of you and I
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9. |
09. Monkey Brain
03:55
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with this
monkey brain
in my head
it's all
quite simple you see
a classical
case of adolescent
ADHD
so let's start him
on a regular regiment
of psychotropic amphetamines
see what else he needs
cause I am a primate
monkey see monkey do
and since you tried
to annihilate me
I will do the same to you
I'm just waiting to
fucking snap
and crack
heads against
walls like I'm
under attack from
you all
from you all
under attack
from you all
if there's
anything left
inside his monkey head
shoot it dead
take him apart
so we can
build him back
up again
now ma'am
I understand
your hesitance
but we wouldn't want an accident
and have to suspend him again
he can't pay attention
in truth it's very distracting
and we've tried everything
from therapy to recess detention
but they just don't affect him
he needs medication
he's got ADD
and also
maybe onset depression
it's just not fair
to the other students there
and to the teacher
who isn't paid enough
to care
about another
crazy kid
who from the looks of it
is probably an idiot
cause I am a primate
monkey see monkey do
and since you tried
to annhilate
my child
I will do the same to you
I'm just waiting
for him to
snap
I'll crack
heads against
walls like he's under
attack from you
all
he's under attack from
you all
from you all
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10. |
10. Babylon
03:06
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In ancient bablyon
there stood a tower
where all
the verbally
precocious children
would gather
to swap stories
about
their lives up till now
until one day
the tower came
Yahweh
had shut them out
God wouldn't
give a fig
for language
He only cares
about physics
and mathematics
so if you
like to write
tonight
is not your night
and every other
night will also
suck forever
in Jerusalem
there lives a dude
he's been there since
the old days
when the stars
were low
and the sun was hot
and dry and bright
and every day
and every night
we'd praise
the ground
and praise the sky
and life was life
and that was fine
and you and I
would laze around
our clothes strewn
on the packed-mud ground
we'd pound flesh
to flesh in a hot
sweaty mess of
florid hallucination
in the summers
taking walks in
the winters
still alive
still alive
in this moment at least
i am still alive
thank you
to all my
friends
for listening to my nonsense
you know I love you
I hope you love me back
thank you friends
thank you friends
for listening to my
nonsense
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Volvo Physics Somerville, Massachusetts
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