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Live Rounds
02:46
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You wanna go? You pudgy little boy
Well I’ll take your power and I’ll take your toys
You like to pound on your chest
Cos you’ve got yours so you can fuck the rest
Juvenile in denial
You’re just another kid with a gun
Juvenile in denial
You know you’re the dangerous one
Go on then, unload into me
Well it can’t be your fault, how could it be?
No one asked for your bravado
But you’re here now so step out of the car bro
Juvenile in denial
You’re just another kid with a gun
Juvenile in denial
You know you’re the dangerous one
When you’re wearing your suit of white armour
You know it will show up the dirt
If you can only speak through violence
You know someone is bound to get hurt
I always find its the funniest thing
You’ve got the keys to the castle and you’ve locked yourself in
Is there anything more self-assured
than a big man
With a tiny dog
Juvenile in denial
You’re just another kid with a gun
Juvenile in denial
You know you’re the dangerous one
When you’re wearing your suit of white armour
You know it will show up the dirt
If you can only speak through violence
You know someone is bound to get hurt
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2. |
Walken
02:48
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I’ve been walking to work
Feeling superior
All you suckers in your cars
Well infrastructure was made for ya
I can’t walk that slow
Can’t walk that slow
Cannot walk that slow
You’re not fooling no one
Your four-wheel drive has never seen no mud
Your never gonna take that beast offroad
Not even to kiss that sweet gravel
I don’t want to hear
One cat call
From your Nissan Patrol
No, I don’t want to hear one cat call
from your Nissan Patrol
Your Nissan Patrol
You’re pissin’ it all away
I know you think you’re a real fun guy
But my middle finger has an RSI
Stop revving your engine at me
C’mon man now you’re just disturbing the peace
Any response that I may choose
Will just end up in a sad lose-lose
Little buddy did that ever work for you?
Did your mama not love you the way you wanted her to?
I don’t want to hear
One cat call
From your Nissan Patrol
No , I don’t want to hear one cat call
from your Nissan Patrol
Your Nissan Patrol
You’re pissin’ it all away
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3. |
Lizard Brain
03:04
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Next step next breath next meal
Hissing, driven by the fear
Prickly toxic fill the gap
Rancid air, no contact
Anticipate
Loosen the belt
Can’t wait to get
Anywhere else
Tip out your protective notions
Mammalian blood to dote on
The things that turn in your
Simple lizard brain
Oh the inane
More and more
Field of flesh
On the vine
You’re rotting
Always go
Privilege to override
Survival instincts
In overdrive
Tip out your protective notions
Mammalian blood to dote on
The things that turn in your
Simple lizard brain
Oh the inane
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4. |
Oculus Rift
03:04
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I wanna go to the place you never show
Unlock the door of what you wanna be
I wanna see those numbers on the screen
Reflect the thoughts that people have of me
Couldn’t be much more than a pipe dream
You groan and writhe at the irony
Snowed under oh how I wonder
What we could have been
We could have been
Its a thought refracting
You used to be my friend
My trust subtracting
This equation you can’t mend
There’s an oculus rift between us
Can’t you see what you have done
Paralytic oh can you feel it
You can’t paginate your life
A go-getter if you let her
You could set her and forget her
Its meta, oh how its meta
But I met her on the other side
On the other side
Its a thought refracting
I used to be your friend
My trust subtracting
This equation you can’t mend
Its a thought refracting
We used to be two friends
One day I may meet you
On the other side of the lens
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5. |
Shell
03:09
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The shell collapsed on itself
You took me down from the highest shelf
I’ve been running ragged through hell
I could not compose myself
I could not compose myself
I could not compose myself
The axe soon forgets
What the tree remembers
So I collected
All of the ash and the embers
In your mind
I took the minor design
A medium in kind
That I wish I could rewind
That I wish I could rewind
I can still recall
My will staring through the door
Unopened and enthralled
I couldn’t preserve the core
The shell collapsed on itself
You took me down from the highest shelf
I’ve been running ragged through hell
I could not compose myself
I could not compose myself
I could not compose myself
I could not compose myself
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6. |
Left Side
03:56
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I've been worried bout the left side of your chest
Press my face against the left side of your chest
Stay awake just counting all your breaths
Is blood pumping through the left side of your chest?
Love me tender with your swollen heart
What can mend take us back to the start
Cease all inflammatory remarks
Skip the beat as you fire off the spark
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7. |
DJ Snuggly
00:42
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8. |
Weeds
03:49
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A weed is a wild plant growing in an unwanted place
Outcompeting the native ones at a rapid pace
economic, environmental, impact off the charts
Erasing, effacing the seed, the heart
Terraform the academy
Perpetual legitimacy
An angry blot a deadly spore on the page
Whose written/whose reading that anyway?
Regime of resource of scarcity
Disguise the top-down drip feed
‘Corporate accountability’
Is being told to live within your means
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Contra
02:04
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Feel the fear I have the power to create
Pop a pill to suppress my fate
You wouldn’t have it any other way
That’s not a risk I’m willing to take
That’s not a risk I’m willing to take
Spend your whole life tying knots in snakes
On the border between real and fake
Just another seed that i have to placate
Tracking tracking
Holding holding
Your emotions
But its not your body
Not an empty receptacle
Rather be filled with the potential
Don’t tell me that won’t stand still
Don’t tell me that I’ll change my will
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10. |
Loving in a Vice
02:19
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The toasting of the spice
The death of what is nice
Can't contain the rights
Loving in a vice
Grab that notion
By the throat
Run across the oval
With my eyes closed
Cold all the time
Then once every night
You turn off the light
Turn off the light
Paths dissect
The football field
Treadmarks left
A clash of steel
Brace for the wave
She had the same face
As an old friend
As an old friend
As an old friend
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11. |
>1
05:16
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Feeling stuck in the liminal space between, the space between
Anyone could be our royalty
I couldn’t reconcile that part of me
I couldn’t reconcile my duality
It is a truth i always knew about you (x3)
We contain multitudes
You are not a libertine
Defined by your wanting
We don’t need a remedy
Unless we want to be
It is a truth i always knew about you (x3)
We contain multitudes
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12. |
Grand Final
04:15
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I'm sounding older than I ought to feel
Can't hear the forest through the trees
Been dunked and drowning in the sound
If I'm not here to listen I don't want me around
If I could put a figure on my wellbeing
Being well would be a matter of seeing
Watching spending all my time
Congruent with the values I hold as mine
I’m feeling lighter, lighter than I’ve ever felt before
Inhale away the dusk and sigh
The clothes are dancing on the line
Above the scent of petrichor
The rain keeps falling more and more
We could just speak no wrong
Wonder how we ever talked before.
All manner of speech all manner of thought
Plant the seed, need the want
You can share the light of your candle and it does not dim the flame
The lactic acid in my core
Ginger showers new life born
Calling out they need us both
To whom much is given need not be lost
You can share the light of your candle and it need not dim the flame
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