Gardenia Radicans (lyrics)

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If I can get through just one minute
It will be one in a row
If I put my heart in it
I might last a whole hour

Insert tab D into slot C
(Assessing the tenor‘s complex area collisions.)
Insert tab D into slot C
(The race to link man’s illness and insincerity.)
Fold Flap F over the rest
(Food additives journey fuel touching everyone.)
Fold Flap F over your sex
(Medical scandals break enemy opinions.)

If I can get through just one minute
It will be one in a row
If I put my heart in it
I might last a whole hour

that was the flower that bloomed at the hour
(Street level repeated visits from thrown out data.)
roots and leaves paper the trees
(Targeting but also details from sickness.)
Insert tab D into slot C
(Documents indicate spreading considerations.)
Fold Flap F over your nest
(Previewing the fall session of missing boys.)

If I can get through just one minute
It will be one in a row
If I put my heart in it
I might last a whole hour

that was the flower that bloomed at the hour
(Assessing the tenor‘s complex area collisions.)
roots and leaves paper the trees
(The race to link man’s illness and insincerity.)
Insert tab D into slot C
(Food additives journey fuel touching everyone.)
Fold Flap F over your nest
(Medical scandals break enemy opinions.)

If I can get through just one minute
It will be one in a row
If I put my heart in it
I might last a whole hour
If I get through just one day
It will be one in a row
If I put my heat in it
I could understand the flower.

Olives and Almonds (lyrics)

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it's a sign
and these are times
and the symbols and distillations
are only proof we are rearranging
it is the time
to fit the crime
and the mantras and abstract notions
put all these signs in motion
exchange the generic
for the esoteric
export the ingredients
of your disobedience
oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks
oh yeah she like what she inspects
oh yeah they fuck like mad insects
oh yeah you get what you invest
listen up
when inclined
these things we're told are true
are often misalligned
see for yourself
engage your mind
these omens and totem poles
don't belong in our time
deface the canary
coal mine visionary
detain the unwary
if the origins are scary
oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks
oh yeah she likes what she inspects
oh yeah they fuck like mad insects
oh yeah you get what you invest
-what you invest

Imagine That (lyrics)

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I can't see why you would even
Imagine that?
You've got rifles on parade
but we're making a stand.
We got everything we asked for
but we still have demands.
We've got love and everything
you don't understand.
We take part. You get fractions.
We take heart. You get factions.
The bridge ices over before the road.
If you tightening up my belt
you better loosen my load.
If you're taking all my money
you better hit the road.
We're gonna fly, high now.
If you're winding all the wind
you better spin some new yarns.
Because your fabic is a tonic
of economic harm.
Polling integrity
is transit to the farm.
We take feet, you get inches.
We take miles you get measures.
Your bayonets are fixed
but ideas are broke.
Your religion is a mirror
that just went up in smoke.
You always laugh along,
but you never get the joke.
We've got memory, morality
and access to the law.
We make history and art
and justice for us all.
We have words of inspiration
but we don't afford a god.
We take part. You get fractions.
We take heart. You get factions.
the civil disobedience is
carried through the street.
It's adopted by the tide that's
lost on its' feet.
Oh the tin of the drum
dances on with the beat.
We're gonna fly, high now.
You got products everywhere
so you're not all alone.
You're prophet's in the air.
So you can't call on the phone.
We are dancing to the beat of
the drums with your bones.
We take feet, you get inches.
We take miles you get measures.
Your bayonets are fixed
but ideas are broke.
Your religion is a mirror
that just went up in smoke.
You always laugh along,
but you never get the joke.

New New One (lyrics)

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I'm not just falling down.
I'm like that brassed off clown.
I can't hang myself right.
I can't get through the night.
These things are real to me.
This is my empathy.
I'm just another pound.
Of flesh in the underground.
When I've sloughed off this mortal coil.
Please set, my feeble bones to boil.
This is my last old testament.
Keep me inside of your monument.

I'm just my love's misguided sound.
You are, the earth and all around.
We are the first thing never found.
We made everything out of sound.
These things, they are so real to me.
Our love, it's not a ministry.
I'm just, I'm just another pound.
Of flesh in the underground.
When I've said goodbye to this world.
Please set my wasted youth to rest.
This is my last old testament.
Keep me inside of your sentiment.

You can go back to metric,
without ever consulting me.
Rosebud, your not just a sled to me.
Julia, you're all of my memories.
These things, they are so real to me.
Our love, it's not a ministry.
I'm just, I'm just another pound.
Of flesh in the underground.
When I'm a savage beta plus,
please set your alpha heart on trust.
This is my only document keep it
inside of your firmament.

While this might be a culture shock
this is your recepit for your man.
This is 27B/6.
This is 27B/6.
These things, they are so real to me.
Our love, it's not a ministry.
I'm just, I'm just another pound.
Of flesh in the underground.
When I'm a victim of entropy,
please let's pretend it's victory.
This is my only covenant
keep me inside of your compliment.

Second Best (lyrics)

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(needs some more water here boss... I can get some more water here boss...)

The second are gone, the second you're gone
and the seconds amended.
Displays the unbearable lightness of the rights
to be wronged.
The right to be killed, the rights to bear will, and
the rights to protect it.
In the capture of time who takes all the arms,
makes up the arms, sounds the alarms.

The second is second the bullet is first
the finger that triggers a life is the worst.
It's second to none in the order of one.

Who takes all the cards, and deals all the dice on
a second chance on a second life...
In the capture of time who takes all the arms,
makes up the arms, sounds the alarms.

The seconds are torn from the arcs of a life
point inward and outward to council the time.
The seconds are tragic and awfully spent in the
time that we don't own, that we merely rent.

the last word of ruin...

felo de se

Overwrought (lyrics)

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This is the time, the time that we have
we better make haste, while we still can
This is the can, where we put all the time
and make a footnote to remember the date
Fruitful of dates the tracking of time
we're over the quota of fruits and their labor
Fearful of time the ticking of tolls
we're under the radar belabored, belabored.
The tick of the talk
the toll of the bell
the screech of the chalk
on blackboards in hell
the ringing of thoughts
the ringing, the ringing
where is the pittance
we show for our time?
-
The tick of the talk
the toll of the bell
the screech of the fowl
are blackbirds in hell
the ringing of thoughts
the ringing, the ringing
where is the pennance you
paid for our time?
~~
This is the clock that tells all the time
If you set it forward you travel in time
This is the tell of something's gone missing
Extolling the presense of something unheard
Fruitful of dates the tracking of time
we're over the quota of fruits and their labor
Fearful of time the ticking of tolls
we're under the radar belabored, belabored.
The tick of the talk
the toll of the bell
the screech of the chalk
on blackboards in hell
the ringing of thoughts
the ringing, the ringing
where is the pittance
we show for our time?
-
The tick of the talk
the toll of the bell
the screech of the fowl
are blackbirds in hell
the ringing of thoughts
the ringing, the ringing
where is the pennance you
paid for our time?
~~

Irresponsible (lyrics)

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I see the people coming down
I watch the person getting off
and in the midst they all look the same.
I watched you by the wall.
Drinking Lite on your cycle,
red and white well groomed and prosperous.
Call me irresponsible.
Call me at the festival.
Call me to the telephone, please.
He's popular, and in control.
Impossible to console, inbred
like all religious folks are.
You watched him wading in the sewer.
He's in the light of something newer.
The myths are just antiquity and dust.
Call me irresistable.
Call me at my mother's place.
Call me soon as possible and bleed.
Call me inpetuous.
Call me irreverent.
Call me while you're still on your knees.
Welcome to the bottom again.
We've got everything you need right here.
Removing your top and bottom again.
I see everything now crystal clear.
Witness the rapture of his bender.
Patient claim he won't surrender.
He's got a point and might do some harm.
We've IV'd BS PRN and
punished with attention,
despite all our antisocial fees.
Call me imperious.
Call me insidious.
Push me off the precipice, please.
Welcome to the bottom again.
We've got everything you need right here.
Removing your top and bottom again.
I see everything now crystal clear.
Call me irresistable.
Call me at my mother's place.
Call me soon as possible and bleed.
Call me inpetuous.
Call me irreverent.
Call me while you're still on your knees.
Call me imperious.
Call me insidious.
Push me off the precipice, please.

To Arms (lyrics)

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my lips still burn
from the taste
of your skin
every place every where
you let me in
in the corner of my mind I see
there's a face in your future
that face is me

and there's something hapening
it's over the horizon
there's some thing he--re

every call that I make is
a call to arms
to arms two arms
to break a fall
breaking like the setting sun too fast
too fast, for the feast of us
the feast of us, the feast of us

Set your filters on GOD
Set your books on the car
and drive a-waaaaaay

every thought that I have is a thought
I own, I own at least these two arms
falling like the autumn leaves to go and show, and show
what we are, what we are

Get your news from the face
Get your hand on your heart
and pledge away

every call that I make is
a call to arms
to arms two arms
to break a fall
breaking like the setting sun too fast
too fast, for the feast of us
the feast of us, the feast of us

Get your face from the news
Get your ass off the couch
and run away.
hey.

What I am Going on about...

This is a list of the songs (in no certain order) and a description of what (I think) they are about.

• monstr0 - This song is a 1^st person narrative from a crooked dictator that will use any means to keep people under their rule. “I am the king, of everything / That I can get away with.”
• therapy - This is what happens when you call in specialists to help you deal with your troubled history.
• olives &  almonds - Title is from a grocery list. But it has more to do with avoiding superstitions or “magic” as a way to knowledge.
• imagine that - Is a conversation with a despot. Basically telling them, “yeah I know you have an air force, but we have love and art and -so you can go suck it.”
• new new one - Dystopian blues. A person can fail on so many levels. Economically, socially, spiritually, artistically. I think this covers all of those.
• overwrought - This is about spending the bulk of your time working with people you have no connection to,  other than a paycheck. They likely are not your family or friends yet you spend more of your waking hours with them than you do with you friends or family.
• two eggs any style - This song is about people’s inability to appreciate how hard some jobs are to do and how they can jam up the works with their selfish behavior.
• to arms - This is a love song. But Maria always felt like it is from the point of view of a serial killer/stalker type.
• irresponsible - This is a song about observing a fallen spiritual “leader.”
• estate - This is a song about the homeless. There are no covenants and restrictions or home owners orgs for their lots in life.
• it ends - This is a song about addiction, loss, and becoming unraveled.
• gardenia radicans - They were in bloom when we started writing this.
• minervamerica - America the warrior goddess.
• second best - It’s about gun violence. How in very little time things can go very wrong.
• detached - This is about history. How it is always subjective and very much sifting through the wreckage to postulate on what happened.

It Ends

A new version of It Ends is up now on myspace, mog, multiply, virb, and LastFM.

she's just workin' for a hit.
she just wished that she could quit
things she's done off her head.
she's just outside lookin' in.
and that's the way
they say it is
and that's the way
they say it ends, it ends
he's just looking for his life
back when the state would drive
and it was safe out of his bed
now everything involved his meds
hepatitis A
hepatitis B
and that's the way
they say it ends, it ends
when little words were spoken
at night on the phone
when everything got broken
before everyone's alone
she's just walking for a drink
something calls beyond the brink
then the tremens break her bones
the weakened family link
and that's the way
they say it is
and that's the way
they say it ends, it ends
and that's the way
they say it is
and that's the way
they say it ends, it ends

Monstr0

The newest version of Monstr0 is up now on myspace, mog, multiply, virb, and LastFM. SOUNDCLOUD.

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I am the king
of everything
that I can get away with.
I will break your thing
and I will make you scream
if I can get my hand in.
I will steal your life
and come on to your wife.
I disappeared your passport.
You can’t tear us apart.
We’ve got more money
than you have heart.
We’re taking names
staking claims
property is theft
staking claims.
I can take your identity
and avail us of your amenitites
and do it with your taxes.
We can shine a light
on what you do at night
and leak it to the papers.
I have read your mail
and I will set your bail
to something you cannot afford.
You can’t tear us apart.
We’ve got more guns
than you have money.
We’re taking names
it may sound funny
liberty is property
making money.
I’m gonna take all the
differences we have.
I’m gonna tear all the
differences in half.
I’m gonna take all the
evidence we have.
I’m gonna tear all your
liberties in half.
I’m a machine
that takes down everything
and everyone that protests.
I will get upstream
and deflate all your dreams
and every law that protects.
I will steal your life
I’ve come home to your wife
and renamed all of your kids.
You can’t tear us apart.
We’ve got more money
than you have heart.
We’re taking names
staking claims
property is theft
staking claims.
I’m gonna take all the
differences we have.
I’m gonna tear all the
differences in half.
I’m gonna take all the
evidence we have.
I’m gonna tear all your
liberties in half.

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