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Unhappily Ever After
01:29
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I was the burning wick in your hurricane
Now I’m an old meal wrapped in cellophane
I was a bright blue sky
You were my aeroplane
Now you’re the lightning and
I’m just a weather vane
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We've Got Tinnitus
00:53
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Who can it be ringing in our ears?
Cochlear reaction resulting from no stimulus
Drenched in decibels
Phantom whine in the neurosphere
We’ve got tinnitus so bad
We’ve got tinnitus
Unbearable
Untenable
Unendable
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Crappy Dracula
01:14
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Crappy Dracula
Stalkin’ through the old oak trees
Crappy Dracula
Keep your nasty fang from me
Crappy Dracula
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We got a book but it wasn’t big enough
We got some ice but it wasn’t frigid enough
We got the peppers but they were not hot enough
To form the spice for your 4-year sendoff
We placed you on the pedestal bud
Prepared to record all your brilliant exploits
But you soon went beyond
What the pundits predicted
Einstein
We got the bottle but it wasn’t proof enough
We got the baggie but it wasn’t croost enough
We got the party bus smokin' hot for us
With buckets of ice and greased poles
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Inkblot Rembrandt
01:58
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Your speckled pointillescent face
Black dots and spatter patterns
Drip drip so goes the ink
It’s quite a problem don’t you think?
Three singers in perfect harmony
The spectacles peddler in his purple turban
Stoning St. Stephen in a history painting
Tobit and Anna contemplate the kid
Old men do combat o’er imagined slights
Under the gaze of inkblot Rembrandt
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Everlasting Flask
02:11
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The vessel is a device
The device is a loophole
The loophole is open but
Open means death
Death goes as far as spring
Spring has no witness
Witness to the execution
An execution of Buicks
Buicks cruising on air glide
The glide that’s rearranged
A flask that’s never dry
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7. |
Try Chemistry
02:30
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One house in escrow
Is worth two in the face
Covalent bonds
Breaking amino chains
Free the slave molecule
From the office
From the blotter—
Ridiculous!
Try chemistry
When you’re feeling jejune
Sophistry only gets you so far
You’re chemistry
When you’re sidled up to me
Try chemistry
To depress blooms in June
Breaking amino chains
From the office
From the blotter—
Ridiculous!
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Jack Of Legs
02:50
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Jack of legs came to town
Reeling ’round the punch bowl
Telling tales with a bit of red
And a fair bit of tol-lol
The guns of Dorchester Heights
Midnight earthworks and
Howe put to flight
Our ship has run aground
Join this jig and reel
Farewell O you ladies of Yorktown
We’ll pass the rum around
The syllabub
Spinning yarns at the Publick House
Dancing on the Fiddler’s Green
Hudson cannons blast like yesterday
The fate of New York
Had us all sighing
Howe’s return and revenge on Long Island
Our wagon’s hit a rut
We languish in a field
Farewell O you brothers of mine
Drop a line when you’ve got the time
Fire burns to the coals
Speaking softly in the gleam
The end of the Great Pretender
Cornwallis entreats to surrender
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(With This) My Journal
01:08
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Lyrics adapted from
"The Disclosure Of Alex Starchild"
by Jeff Wolfe
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What do you do when green eyes don’t?
What can you see when sightseers won’t?
How do the trails materialize when you cut the ties?
Where do you draw the line
When you’re always flying off the handle?
What do you see when eyes flicker?
What do you want
When green eyes leave?
Trails still materialize once you’ve cut the ties
Once you’ve drawn the line
Once you decide what to do
When green eyes don’t
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I’m afraid of you and
You’re afraid of everything
We’re playing tag with our neuroses
You ask me why
The hell would I ever sing?
We’re playing tag with our neuroses
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12. |
Carly Is The Coolest
01:14
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Carly is the coolest
Cute and scary
Like a bunch of bees
Whipping the honey
As wax combs resolve
Into perfect hexagrams
Carly is the coolest
She stops hearts and starts fights
And buckles periwinkle-skinned knees
Grey ideas floating at dusk
In senile patterns through the trees
Forget anything else
These drones are the cruelest
And Carly is the coolest
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Defective Fiction
01:21
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There’s no mystery
It’s a beach read
Lousy with adverb
"So" and "then"
Spreading ripples
Participles
Defective fiction
When he’s down on our house
Defective fiction
Defective down on our house
When it’s hot you find shade
Gray blue seafoam so relaxing
Ink stains bargain basement
It’s not worth much
But it keeps the pot boiling
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Been 98 minutes
Still no sign of the carousel
We’re waiting for Sam and Gus
As the sun comes up
At the psychological baggage claim
I’d just as soon leave it behind
Be free of the crushing weight
Of my baggage
But there’s so much in there that I need
Would be so hard to replace
Let’s give it a few more minutes
At the psychological baggage claim
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Meat Of The Mother
01:22
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Naturally occurring meat of the mother
Now I understand why dinosaurs
Ate each other
Flesh of mussels on a bed of snails
Anticipating visits from Neil Fungus and family
I’m under the door
She’s eyeing Monopoly
She kisses like Christmas
And missus missives
I’d swim through fire
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Figure-Four Wedlock
01:45
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The US matrimony just hit an iceberg
This isn’t a home
It’s a coliseum
A museum for wedlock’s bruises
A mausoleum of
Unspoken slights and abuses
We started to grapple
The moment we left the chapel
Now ’til death do we deadlock
In figure-four wedlock
Who are you really
Behind that mask?
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Invitation from the reaper
When the nights are cold
Mornings gray and dim
And orange is on the ground
We’re at the soul harvest
With a banjo and a scalpel
At the soul harvest
With the jug and a body bag
Come join the washboard player
When he strikes the louvers
Dance a jig with clickety spoons
Just wait until it’s over
Invitation from the reaper
When nights are cold
There’s a looped rope hanging
From the hayloft
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Telepathic Fluencies
02:35
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I. Maintain Your Spines
Rogue specimens
In the endocrine shitstorm
Let us maintain your spines
Adrenal clans
Let go of your egos
Your pheromone lassos
And speak with your eloquent minds
II. Explorriors
Enslaved spirits of the inane asylum
Replace your wiring with vines
Explorriors return to the jungle
The primordial language we bungled
As mortality’s watch unwinds
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Ghost Man On Second
02:00
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From Far Rockaway to Buffalo
Pop flies are trying out wings
Soaring over the majestic grandeur of things
They leapt off the bat
MCs and rhymes on the bleachers
Busted-up chalk for the teachers
The glory of the diamond awaits
The ghost man on second
Birds 15 deep on the tarmac
Aviation specters strike out the phantasms’
Love of 5-tool players
Haunting us since birth in our protean layers
Failed autopilots taunt teachers
Earning their wings in the bleachers
The glory of the diamond awaits
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20. |
E-Maul
01:36
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E-maul
Send it to me via e-maul
Most visceral communication
You have got maul!
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21. |
When They Thaw
01:21
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They’re not counting cryogenic sheep
They’re plotting in their sleep
While we sow what they reap
Making our plans for French Friday
There’s hemlock in the soufflé
They’re serving for Bastille Day
You best be quick on the draw
When they thaw
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Joseph Airport Cincinnati, Ohio
"Vector 23 is full of driving post-punk ... Bowie-inflected art rock ... and, at least to one listener, shades of Syd
Barrett-era Pink Floyd." —MAGNET Magazine
"... An eccentric, zany little album whose catchy tunes and peculiar lyrics can put a grin on your face." —The Fire Note
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