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1. Ballad Of An Onion Sprout O lovely don’t Lovely don’t think you’re so clever Wrapped up in hopeless endeavors Ready to pout Onion you’re ready to sprout The money don’t It don’t make anything better Shrinks your soul just like wet leather Stuck to a cow And when your luck comes about You can roll The annuls Of all time From a scroll To a bold Ball of twine Throw it up To the sun Watch it ignite O Hopi gal Don’t rely on that dream catcher To filter out with its feathers All of your doubt When that white man comes about Your heart will grow Larger than the Eiffel tower Pumping blood of Paris flowers Into the town Of those non-natives you found To be cold With their old State of mind You must buy Or be sold To their lie Grab your gun Little girl And make things right Consummate yourself and shake the reigns Down the bridal path to a safe place I will meet you there dying in grace Soak up all the tears off of your face And watch you disappear without a trace
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2. Little Piranhas I swear if they see us They’re going to kill us Surely they’ll feed us To little piranhas O but God, Don’t you drink that wine It tastes of blood, Fermented in barrels of pine O know the want, For these chemicals is high But we must not, Inject them until they are ripe You gave them hope You gave them the best years of your life… They’re pulling the levers The gears are in reverse Come now my sister And head to the river O hear the dams, Break and watch the waters rise They’re infested with piranha fry O don’t pretend, This is the end of our lives Believe it or not, These things happen all the time They’ve taken hope They’ve taken the best years of your life Is this the best sex you’ve ever had? Is this the best book you’ve ever read? Is this the loud silence? Is this the next best thing to death?
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3. Cowboy And Cut Cigars Lung sneeze me out Like a disease Love peg me down Onto this bed I’m begging you Don’t rape me now I’m made of glue I’ll bind to you Tongue spit me out God set me down Onto my head I’m bigger than Led Zeppelin This fountain pen Will kill all men Brain-dead, and bearing arms Cowboys, and cut cigars We want you all to know We will not die alone Lung sneeze me out Like a disease Love peg me down Onto this bed I’m begging you Don’t rape me now I’m made of glue I’ll bind to you
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Norman Bates 03:54
4. Norman Bates Are you okay? You seem not well… Like thoughts of violence Silence everything you have brought with yourself Won’t you please stay In our motel? We’ve got these linens And decisions that we make all by ourselves Don’t be afraid Mother means well… Ignore the yelling Bellowing from up behind the windowsill Marion Crane Would you please tell… What brings your body To the lobby of our cozy town motel? I’ll leave you be No need to yell… Wash off your skin of sin So that my blade might penetrate it well Please forgive me For my sick health… I didn’t want to have to disturb you and stab you, Stab you, stab you, stab you,... Over and over, over and over again… “Shut up mother, She’s just a stranger And it’s raining I will help her” “You stupid boy, You stupid boy Don’t you love your mother? Now go kill her And stab her… Stab her, stab her, stab her, stab her…” Love, love Marian my love, I miss you already…
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5. Wake Up Edamame Wake up Everybody To the pressure In your head Wake up Edamame Time to usher Out the dead Ah, Wait an hour Ah, Wait an hour Wake up Nostradamé To the Melon In your head Wake up Ol’ pastrami There’s a boy who Is made of lead Ah, Wait an hour Ah, Wait an hour (REPEAT)
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Island 04:11
6. Island Let’s give the monkey something to swing on That boy’s been hanging around for days I’m not the kind of man to lean on That monkey best not swing my way But more than this For just one kiss I’ll kill these men in your name And sail away We’ll build an island We’ll build an island We’ll build an island in your sea of tears And call it home for a hundred years An island in your fleeting fears Don’t call this home, don’t call this home Let’s give the bastards a lesson in love After all that’s the Roman way I’ll find a last word they can lean on And get the monkey off of me But more than this With just one fist I’ll raise a coup in your name And sail away We’ll build an island We’ll build an island We’ll build an island We’ll build an island We’ll build an island in your sea of tears And call it home for a hundred years An island in your fleeting fears Don’t call this home, don’t call this home We’ll build this island
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7. Why Can’t I Stop Killing My Friends We could be here for a while So let’s get busy and defile Our friends Why can’t I stop killing my friends? Please come home to me my Kyle I did not mean to rouse and rile Your head Why can’t I stop killing my friends? O you’ve been a bad one You go from this to that one You moan and thrown a tantrum You know better than to kill a friend Lalala… We were done for from the get go So let’s not be fools and just let go Of errors When you’re dead nobody will care O you’ve been a bad one You go from this to that one You moan and thrown a tantrum You know better than to kill a friend
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Audrey II 02:35
8. Audrey II Just when we thought things were okay You came and took our breath away With love, without love With love
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9. Opus For Sleepwalking You kill in the name Of all those blame You hate everything Don’t you? You walk in a maze It goes on for days You hate everything Don’t you? The ending is coming near my dear Shall we say goodbye? The walls are losing in my dear Who will save our lives? It’s the killing; it’s the real thing Do we have to die? We’re walking in our sleep again Let us wake and rise From death Be gone, don’t come around no more (REPEAT)
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10. The Universe Is Made Of Nonsense They did it for money The sky is exploding in I’m not scared Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) Of pumpkin heads Universal nonsense Economic process I’m not scared Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) Of rabbit ears Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) I’m not scared Undulated babies And kittens with rabies I’m not scared Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) Of lemonade That dog tried to bite me Tied up to that oak tree I’m not scared Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) Of Pinkertons Ooo (stop, go, stop, go) I’m not scared (REPEAT)
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Whether the Burning of Rome leaves you mesmerized, bloodied, confused, ecstatic or bewildered, or whether you can’t figure out if you’re witnessing a punk show, carnival, dance party or performance art piece, one thing is certain—the Year of the Ox is upon us ... more

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