1. |
Right to the Rails
02:58
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Adventist Christian planetarium sanctuary
cut
tremendous friction in the cultivaritorium
the station gets blown out
you've got a right to the rails
cones, rods and retinas- I forgot your eyes
Anacostia, Sligo Creek
Prince George's Plaza Station's pulverized
third rail transmitterized
the red line gets freaked out, but
you've got a right to the rails
octagonal chambers
little rooms
little library minds
Cambridge, Cleveland, Jersey, Jacksonville
GO!GO!GO!GO!
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2. |
Shut Shut Up
02:25
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shut shut, shut shut shut up
shut shut up, you're not dying inside
shut closet, jut in
shot brother, take a bullet, son- come on in!
shut up, sh- shut up, shut shut shut shut up
you're not- shut up
shut shut shut up, shut shut up
shut shut up, you're not dying inside
feel around, feel around, feel around, feel around
feel around, feel around, feel around for the flashlight
shine it and
wake wake up, wake wake up
wake wake up, I won't let you sleep in, no
you spat blood, you broke up
transmit sparks- I'm a frantically, frantically
no interference for a five mile radius
no interference, or I'll smother you, smother you
wake wake up with a flashlight in each eye socket
wake up, wake up, wake up, wake
you're a hindrance felt
you're an avalanche belt
you're a hinterland hell
and a mountain range
the world cup, the world cup
the world cup is a violent prize
it's not enough, not not not enough
not enough, not enough in my eyes
let's break it up, break it up
smash the trophy and the stadium cries
they'll take the pieces to their homeland
and grind them into powder and shut up
shut up shut UP!
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3. |
The Citizens of Wichita
02:43
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and all 500,000 citizens of Wichita
tried to get a piece of your beautiful face
drooling on themselves in the Methodist parking lots
throw your shoes in the Arkansas and watch them get erased
make calls at the business school
"is there no community college in your county?"
they branded themselves with an icon and an effigy
and marked a fertile swath, a green ellipse
an occidental notebook, an accidental mallergy
you're sleeping now in the grain
or the basement of the ECC
spilling drugs on your pre-med clothes
"is there no grain alcohol available in cabinets?"
I'd go in, but I'm scared and the museum got closed
so instead I took a bus to the mountains and the labyrinths
home
a quarter million children in the downtown of Wichita
playing in their suits on the fountains and the grates
spraying water at the girl with the flute and the mandolin
red skin
golden tone
sunflower state
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4. |
Raytracer
01:50
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did you ever get help?
by far and away she's more ingenious
she's inferior
the dense medium's mine
the light one is hers
she's bending rays to the interior
did you ever get help with the problems or exercise?
did you ever get sad on your bed late at night
crying, listening to Either/Or?
did you ever make out on the Capitol steps with an
AK-47-holding Marxist girl?
did you ever get help with the problems?
no- you never can admit it
that's fine
I'm going home to fail
did you ever get help, Argentina?
did you ever get help, Czechoslovakia?
did you ever get help?
by far and away, you are ingenious. you're inferior
did you ever get help?
by far and away, I am inventive. I'm inferior
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5. |
Use Your Hands
02:34
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I never saw another building like yours
it calls into question what's proper for the architect
a combination of intelligent pricing and intelligent spans
that self-adjust for anyone
raze Red Square and the new plans for the Trade Center
look- we all know it's appalling, but you're the only
one with plastic explosives in your pack
"Matt, put it down man. we all know it's appalling but
you're the only one with a bomb in your hand."
use your hands to dig through the cinderblocks
and crush demands
and hurt your home
I never saw another building like yours
it's breaking apart
I never saw another dormitory like yours
it's falling apart
use your hands
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6. |
F-R-E-S-N-E-L Licenseur
03:37
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let's hit the interstate
with a call sign like that, girl, you'll never want to return
let's pull over all the silencers we find, and put them in
a locked un-American standard
a hurtling ball across the freeway midline:
"I didn't mean to wreck your van, man
I only want to take it to the center of the Marshall Plan."
I want to drive
I want to pilot
and put it down
let's put the state in a lockdown crisis
I'm over wheels now
my eyes were never gouged
they were injured
New York state!
the DMV cries
where's your pile of illegal telescopics to abuse?
if Fresnel ever lived, he'd approve
what else did he live for?
but wait- he loved, just like anyone else!
he had a heart, and a stomach, and a knee, and a blinker
and his own soul tripod
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7. |
Sfearion
04:16
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strange breed, rangefinder
I'm comatose
trust, doubt, breakaway
we were never close
jump around town
it's the blinking of the eyelet
in the middle of the afternoon
phase burst from the screen-
a radiation dose
I'm tired, and all tired faces get fired for how long the race is
the race is long
long withou'r home
I want to get home
rad, rem, rand- pinpricks on a data sea
ruptured nucleotide, broken ladder, drunk apostasy
a brother got killed. an apostle got killed
and the droners working patiently
CRT spits a shard, strikes a blow against eternity
I'm tired, and all tired faces get fired for how long the race is
the race is long
long withou'r home
I want to get home
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8. |
Ainseley
04:11
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Ainseley I know
I'm too old
and the youth group is wrong for me
I'm poetically on your leash
and I'm going there to make you want me
I'll save my soul so you can catch a peek
of the beautiful ideas and ugly dreams
and the wavelengths that I keep in tension
Taraka's home
by that time I'm sleeping
and she gets in the pool
to make sure she's breathing
and I want to check her breath for signs of hope
and I want to mine her mind for game codes
all those beautiful ideas and lovely quotes
I won't you hold you close 'cause I'd cry
Ainseley
Ainseley
Ainseley
Ainseley
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9. |
Edgeless
04:21
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you sleep dreamless on the watchtower baby
in the heart of the train
and it's seamless
your light's beamless
and so you're hiding in the tunnel until the fire's exchanged
for a setlist
you call them insane
call in, call out
and then your eyes twitch
and then you're outside
and you call them insane
in-line shockring
you make a racket in the station until the silence explains
guideway blocking
shockwave docking
it took 100,000 blinkers for the darkness to drain
to start talking
the factions make peace by the subway light
and then your eyes twitch
and then you're outside
call in
call out
collinear
call them insane
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10. |
AloalocularL.A.
04:29
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AloalocularL.A
La Brea tar pits froth and spray
conscription pulls you back to it
breathe fire. breathe spit
EndoelmetrialY.C
ascorbic acetate fling spree
behold- the curtain's open wide!
stucco homes in Central Side
inside
JayowenstarclusterA.X
breathe slowly. breathe out
cause car wrecks
your destiny's not manifest
the best
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11. |
Coast to Coast
05:02
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Emperor X Berlin, Germany
Booking:
Brandon Rizzo -
tinyboxbooking@gmail.com
Management:
black@bar-none.com
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