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The CSLWV
02:33
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You will be made to feel that this is the routine to abide by and
People will take great interest in your improvement
A junta of yentas will cackle at your door and
In the interest of bearing children you will be forced to see a whore
It’s a hard row to hoe
But we take it with the base hits
These are the nice liberal people we were warned of
We get these commonsense remedies
From doctors who will never write prescriptions
Even people who have already forgotten Brezhnev
Know how to order a drink at a bar
Now I’m chewing on what Herr Baca warned me of:
"These nice people, they will fuck you
"With their commonsense liberal worldview"
Does that make any sense?
Well, I'd say not at all
When we read the Prince
We come back every fall
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Mules
02:30
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Time was not on his side this time
“These years were short, these days are long,” he said, I thought
And we gasped for breath and looked for a drink of something
This time he was a little late
When providence finally showed there was some confusion
The wrong man brought the doctor
And the right man brought the counsel
And after the charters and the treaties and all the secret meetings
He let the mules kick the door down
They seemed too near
Paper said they’d disappeared
Dregs and the Chrome Dome they stayed zipped up
We took the blame but the joke was on us
They disappeared
It was the mules I feared
Late, the day before
He had run to the tune of a jeer
Today, Turgidson stood, stood stock still and stared
When he boarded we saw he had a tic
This time, he was right on time
It came too late to tell, and bits of paper fell
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In My Kitchen
02:34
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“We cannot commit,” he said with a grin
And under the kitchen I thought I heard a din
This just in: man discovers fornication and some minor sins
Let’s call all the neighbors to all come in
Porcine bags ladies and their walrus men
And when that scene was finally over
He started to notice to notice the mechanicals outside
Their daily greetings so cordial
Their demeanor suggested some sinister purpose
And the way they arrived before dawn
And the noises he heard in his sleep
This is a passage from which we take flight
My guidebooks seem to chronicle tripe
We cannot commit tonight
These fruits of labor are overripe
And from them we offer a serpentine bite
This is a battle I’d rather not fight
We cannot commit, is that all right?
And to return to the present
I have to offer you my latest edit
And if you can get it to the press
Print these last words, I will not digress
If you’re after ignition, there will be no coition in my kitchen
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4. |
Another Name
02:30
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Back in the early part of this era
The fashionable knew that split personalities were de rigueur
We met one who had no shame
We never called her by her given name
Isn’t it ironic that when schizophenia was the norm
There weren’t enough laws on the books to keep “those people” locked up in the Pratt?
If you knew her by her real name
You’d get a shock when waking life you regained
And she found her face
And she wore it when she felt so ashamed
it was just a mask, the kind that lets you take all the blame
And when’s it outgrown that’s all right
The Pratt Library is full of nuts of the worst stripe imaginable
And I don’t just mean the homeless guys jacking off to the internet porn
Two or three times she ran out of names
In the back of her mind, she ran away from frame
We knew her by another name
it was the kind you have when you think about fame
And now this new mask, it makes the depraved feel so ashamed
It was no temple but now its sibyl’s been profaned
What an end
And she lost her face
And when she took it off she didn’t feel ashamed
And what an end we have now
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Monotory
01:45
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Envision, and I think you can, two forces that are opposed to each other
We’ll call one a whore and one a horse
Two points on a line, in line with each other
The whore moves in circles, she moves around
The horse is stable like a good mother
i’d like to put them in a room, a blank sparse room with each other
What do they do?
Do they interact? It’s a social experiment like none other
They’d claw at the walls and tear out their eyes
No matter what they won’t avoid each other
When they get out the jokes they’ll tell, they’ll be so harsh they’ll make you shudder
They’ll be so hard, laughing and crying, maybe they’ll kill each out
When the Greek came in, he was twisted and pissed
He had the look of one dead sober
He’s the point, he’s the axis, he’s the fulcrum they rest under
A triangular dome, much like a dome
An eggshell’s a dome
Is an omelette a blunder?
We’re so cruel because of our mothers
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You’re riding a ride
That you take for free
Latched on behind were the dreams you stole from me
Freudian dreams, not right at all
But a good patient lies on the couch, you see
And my doctor is owed his fee
If this is the ride you take for free, then the loop-de-loop I’ve got to see
RIDE
Where are my bottles of wine?
Hidden for your sake not mine
Dine on the world if it’s so exciting
You can send the check to me
Ghost on the tracks, easily
And if you run him over, then I didn’t see
RIDE
Take the ride you take and ride it down to your galleries
one day your ride will break and when it does you’ll come to me
Riding the ride you take
You’ll be swollen like a flea
And we’ll kill the cur that carries you when he runs to me
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7. |
Kitchenette
00:43
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To return to the present
I have to offer you my latest edit
And if you can get it to the press
Print these last words, I will not digress
If you’re after ignition, there will be no coition in my kitchen
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The Miss Baltimore, Maryland
The Miss was formed in 2000 from the ashes of Baltimore club scene stalwarts the Brogues when drummer Damir Marusic and bassist/singer Hank Baker sought a new guitarist. A plan for a rotating six-string player abruptly ended when Brendan Bartow of the Fuses joined and it became obvious that no further searching was needed. The Miss played local small clubs and art galleries till autumn 2002. ... more
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