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Bite Somebody
03:18
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Ruthie 2 - have you seen the human animal recently? Fear breeds anger...
Good evening. My name is Ruthie – – I am neither of sound mind nor body – they tell me I'm 88 years young; so, the body/mind thing makes sense... they tell me a lot of things – I get confused and they tell me “Esther!” They use my legal name when they're frustrated... And they think that calling me Ruthie one second and Esther Renee Abernathy! The next – like a child getting scolded – is going to help my... what do you say I have? Alzheimer's and dementia! Well if you say so... you ever just wanna bite somebody? I wrote a song about it... like to hear it? Here it goes...
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Chorus
I'm a feral fast funky felon fine flippant and free
fitting to feast on your flesh in frustrated ferocity
Our fangs are bare the dome is unhinged
drowned in fear tapping fury once again
Pre-Chorus
Animal I'm about to bite somebody
bite bite I'm about to bite somebody
Chours
Corner the rat trap it cage it
starve it poke it maybe enrage it
rat in a can can on the man flame to the can
with a torch in your hand
and I'll show you fear tapping fury
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
How quickly we forget the magic trick it's gone
like flash paper or smoke bombs ninja dreams and war-drums
and so we scream
the truth is terrifying because the inky truth you know is
you're terrified you're petrified horrified you're scared inside
and You'll show them all – fear tapping fury
Pre-chorus
Chorus
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2. |
My Own Monster
04:11
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you got the cryptic loners – in forests for the trees
skulking and hiding – under lochs no keys
and then there's mutant nightmares – of nuclear rage
mushroom cloud weapons – who can only lay waste
to city-scapes mind-scapes – night stands and dinner plates
back before street lights – you already too late
some will blame it on the other – the other inside
it's not me baby – it's just that Mr. Hyde
it's not me baby – it's just the wolf inside
so blame your drinks and blame your moon – baby I'mma blame your lies
CHORUS
We're all making - making our own monsters - what kind of monster do you wanna be
and then there's all the ones who died – broken hearts or broken minds
building on the burials – guess I shoulda read the signs
throwing fits they rattle chains – knock a thing or two around
keep cracked closets creepy – broke china dolls and clowns
smokey angry faces – that linger past their welcome
gas-lit haunting – narcissist rebellion
oblivious to their oblivion – they walk right thru you
trapped by a memory – that undone to do
screaming at the living – while you're left on read
damned if they'll die again 'cause baby - ghosts don't bleed
CHORUS
but most are walking zombies – in denial that they died
ignoring gaping holes and wounds – shells destroyed inside
but some pretenders know they dead – and still they turn from grace
invited in they drain you dry – flash their fangs and eat your face
egocentric selfish self – serving addicted bloody thieves
hunting to be quickened – won't you feel their disease
some just sutured stitched and stapled – roadmaps of grief and love
abby normal resurrections – just tryna rise above
every scar a lesson – the torch of hate gets learned
put your pitchfork down – before we all get burned
CHORUS
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3. |
Divination
04:20
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perils of hyper awareness
aka the little things
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Attention paid has an interest rate
foreign to most
like creeping in the eye of the beholder
not for you to understand
I'll tell you when you're older
so let them have their secrets and their armor
attention paid has an interest rate
CHORUS
Just looking for the little things...
they say the devil's in the details...
No one can know me better than me
'cause I'm a mystery
attention begged from the very start
but thrown in loops when you learn their mind and heart
so let them have their secrets and their armor
no one can know me better than me
should/would someone know me better than me
CHORUS
curses on the mind will find the lips in time
so caught them by the toe you maybe let them go
ain't no cocaine on a mirror we just cutting grooves
doesn't matter what's remembered with nothing to prove
trying to be a better me another mystery
curses on the mind will find the lips in time
let them go
CHORUS
Look for devils and you know you're gonna find them
so you watched the film a thousand times
know behind the scenes to every look and line
every frame an edit and girl you got the knife
memorizing movies while you're imitating life
look for devils and you know you're gonna find them
CHORUS
so pay attention maybe not so close
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4. |
Medicine Man
03:52
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It's all about the fake it till you make it
finding better angles 'cause you know you gotta take it
add a little doctored spin until it reads just so x2
so called the doctor said my heads not right
my heart is beating funny and I'm losing sight
they said – take two lies and call me in the morning when you feel alright x2
Oh they'll show you how to mask the pain
put a shiny band aid on your broken brain
make you dance with the devil and put your head in the sand x2
so I leaned on my lover and cried in vain
something's going very wrong deep down in my brain
they said – take two lies and call me in the morning when you feel alright x2
so I called governor to plead my case
but he lied thru his teeth just win that race
said if you ask me son they're giving sound advice x2
now all lies are pretty black in the dark of night
and when they come back haunting they come back to bite
just a couple ghost stories to get you through the night x2
not talking lying to your brother sister mother
just a couple bent truths to your reflected other
so open wide sugar and take your medicine x2
just throw one back of that invincible proof
fill your veins or your head with that smokey truth
take that bottle to the dome it's just one more lie x2
but it goes down bitter so don't choke my friend
as you Photoshop your life so it's free from sin
just asking for love before you love yourself x2
It's all about that fake it till you make it
cause underneath it all baby we all naked
all lost and lonely liars tryna make our way x2
So listen to the doc when you're feeling blue
heart full of troubles not a clue what to do
take my love and call me in the morning when you feel alright x2
take my love or take your lies call me when you feel alright
hope you feel alright
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5. |
Waiting On the Twist
05:29
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CHORUS
Oh please - may I have some more
Oh please - little something in my bowl
Oh please - wish I couldn't still taste your soul
No last look no shouldered gaze no circle back
moon out of phase
where push and pull ain't tide no more where ange's fade
and demon's roar
PRE CHORUS
Just waiting on rain to stop searching for signs of the warming sun
Just waiting on cloudbreaks and rainbows with heartache
shiny things that never come
CHORUS
so saturdays my saddest days half hour
round 2
painted bruised and scarred
and tinted blue
weighted hearts and heads and unmade beds excuses made
in smokey air
for over-watered eyes blaming heavy rains
in clear blue skies
PRE CHORUS
CHORUS
as if orphaned by your own design lonliness
the cross and crime
politeness counted pretty pleased where broken hearts
too slowly eased
and never more is all that's left not yet a ghost
but it feels like death
PRE CHORUS
CHORUS
improv out...
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6. |
we're all mad here
04:55
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tribute to wonderland -- based on actual lines from the books and interviews with Carroll -- re-imagining re-interpreting -- and trying to recite the poem Jabberwocky in a dream...
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I don’t see how we finish, if we don't begin.
Things will never make sense skipping to the end
it's called growing up dee dum dee dum dee
fear killing curious in this deep blue sea
heads roll graceful but they fed to win
It's no use going back cause I was a different then
I can’t explain myself, I am not myself, you see.
So then be so then be... what you would seem to be
but in the world who am I?' the great puzzle to solve
Everything’s got a moral, find it maybe evolve.
Take care of the sense, sounds will take care their own.
As they caution curiosity and doubts get sewn
CHORUS
what a brilliant gamble riding cosmic waves
whimsy in the orange groves as the madman raves
slide your toes in the sand dance along the fire
meaning in the madness what we all desire
come to these arms beam into my heart
we've been falling for forever from the very start
I don't think – Then don't talk you might remove all doubt
cause there's no takebacks once the words come out
I don’t want to go among the mad like that
but you can’t help that said the grinning cat
before breakfast in impossible I say believe
be a dreamer shape the future that's in love conceived
So eat your shrooms grow big and strong
Beware the Jabberwock, and heed my song
CHORUS
jaws are meant to bite, and claws to catch!
The mind is meant for bending gotta let it stretch
One, two! One, two! And through and through the crack
where the riddle is the prize in your crackerjacks
And hast thou slain your Jabberwock
life is in the doing gotta walk the talk
falling into you falling into me
forego shallows learning gravity
The whole thing was a dream, beginning at the begin
the whole thing was a dream till you come to the end:
CHORUS
The whole thing was a dream, beginning at the begin
the whole thing was a dream till you come to the end:
then stop
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7. |
After 'While
03:14
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can you feel
time's they are changing
can you hear
the time is always chasing
teeth that chew thoughts that grind
the gears got teeth as the hands they fly
listen for the tick did you hear the talk
never living life while we're watching the clock
can you feel
time's they are changing
can you hear
the time is always chasing
fearing waiting biding time
hear the click hear the click 'cause it's close behind
death roll got a taste on the day we're born
and now you're waiting for your life to be ripped and torn
can you feel
time's they are changing
can you hear
the time is always chasing
hiding in the swamps your neverlands
jolly roger fantasies and a hook for hand
but you know you know you ain't fishing for men
just playing make believe running from the end
dreaming your dream keep the reaper at bay
keep the lost from growing up like you gotta say
can you feel
time's they are changing
can you hear
the time is always chasing
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8. |
Neveralwaysalwaysnever
05:55
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Transforming hurt to hope absolutely
when I perform this track I often will comment on how the first "verse" is odd and emo and me being in a self deprecating mood -- which shifted the rest of the song -- very adam sandler wedding singer in reverse -- sometimes you have to remind yourself who you are or at least who you want to be -- we can all forget sometimes -- but sometimes even a "majority of the time" - - is not ALL the time.
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yet another said it's not you it's me
a long line of history
repeating unending
so if it's always been that it's not me
and the cheese stands
and they never choose me
then simply – it's always never me...
always and never
absolute absolutes
all tossing words
searching for absolution
now the truth is
I don't know much
Can't see the future
and the older I get
the less clear the before
but I hold these truths these absolutes
PRE-CHORUS
Never make you mama count to 3
always tell the truth between you and me
never crack the crystal or darken doors
always toe your line when the devil pours
and just remember my son
CHORUS
It's never always never me
It's never always never you
red rover red rover
silent prayer you're called over
base kick dodge basket foot
no podiums no trophies no mantle to put
last picked if only
uneven team left lonely
just hold these truths these absolutes
PRE-CHORUS
CHORUS
It's never all or nothing
It's always all or nothing
All or nothing – whatever happened to something
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Huckleberry Pulpo Prosser, Washington
I'm a busker - rudimentary acoustic meets caterwauling vocals - unabashed - untrained - toiling at writing songs - just tryna be me. Aspirations? Maybe share something that resonates with someone -- maybe you.
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