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Fooligans
00:47
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You’ve got chainmail
Would you mind if we entered your mind?
It would be great
If good things would happen
But we’re just
Jockeying for perdition
We’re fooligans
Happy to butt heads
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Static Line Jumper
01:05
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I pulled the cord out
I got the washout
Felt the pressure drop
Couldn’t get a word out
Earth was coming fast
Timing crackerjack
And I broke my legs
And I broke my legs
I broke my legs
Jumpsuit rippling
Heard the pencil snap
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Cycling goggles leave grit on her cheeks
She’s been tooling around on that thing for weeks
On the motorbike given unto her care
By an estranged husband late of Bellaire
Hitches up her skirts
So the pipes don’t ignite ‘em
Blasting down Edsel
Where coppers can’t find ‘em
And she peels out in the speakeasy
She’s vaulting from chairs and dealing out dares
Like a madwoman
And she downs exactly what whiskey she’s given
She’s the original and notorious Nancy McNiven
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Joseph Imports
01:48
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Ellis Island 1936
Stick close to cousin Henrik
He knows all the tricks
To get us through
So we don’t end up
In that room
Down through the decades
To present day
Joseph Imports rolls that way
Cargo truck on the way
New York City ‘38
Our wares never second-rate
Bringing in the tunes
And charismatic singers
So they don’t end up
On the loom
Down through the decades
To present day
Joseph Imports rolls that way
Euro-luxuries every day
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Taste Bugs
01:38
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Spawning
Swarming
False-spring knuckleheads
Fawning
Boring
Fishnet spazztecs
Ratify artistic intents
When the taste bugs fly
Chewing all that cud
Sucking all the blood
Live wire locusts
Neon taste bugs
Termite empire
It’s all about the buzz
Teach your larvae well
Then you drive them from the hill
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Instrumental
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7. |
Your Roman Nose
01:23
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Let your forehead’s
Crowfoot creases
Cross the bridge
Furrowed in dissension
Let the noble line
Of your Roman nose
Run true
In stately declension
Glowering!
Pupils hot
Philosopher’s volute
Flared
Complete
To the point
Of your Roman nose
Get your neck straight
Wattles quiver
Bare your teeth
Your violent intentions
Let the noble line
Of your Roman nose
Run true
In stately declension
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Ancient Enzymes
03:25
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Cody’s many whippings
Drove him west
Beyond billboards and
Death Valley
Together
They banded together
Green sheen on the ocean
Where Cody’s tribe will dwell
Only time will swell
Together
They banded together
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I'm Taking A Duplicate
01:12
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Meet me in Sydney
You know your plan
Is easier than that
So don’t try to sell it
We can’t change the program
To accomplish the mission
Dropping hell to revive the letter
That doesn’t understand coincidental
Meet me in Sydney
Please
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Total Honesty Confidante
01:14
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I need a total honesty confidante
For tears not meant for the pillow
One with Australian proportions
And a purple lawn bra
And mockery 360 24-7
You deliver the four-word throat chop
Townshend is not alone
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The Optimistic Guest
01:14
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Instrumental
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Jump Shot Jeans Suite
04:34
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We’re sipping it down
Filtered by the seams
Of red stripes on the calf
And the jam between toes
Got quite a nice bouquet
Gymsock chardonnay
Our tongues curl for a drop
Of rich and cloying slop
Gymsock chardonnay
He’s ruling the paint
It’s talk to the hand
Get in your grill
Wade into the stands
King of the paint!
No greater reward
Taller than mountain
Sharper than sword
He’s ruling the paint
He’s shutting it down
He’s driving them out
He’s bringing it round
Pulling shit out of a fire
And making it fly
That’s why they called him Skyhook
Boxed out
Man-to-man
Abandoning
Zone defense/coverage
Triple double
Take it up the middle
Defensively responsible
And a tiger in the lane
Freeshot prince
Toeing the foul line
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13. |
Joseph Hairport
01:06
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There’s nobody here to get
Your head out the back
They practiced 1… 2… 3…
For all the right reasons
Sometimes I can’t see the narrow view
But I know she’s a friend to you
What’s something in those eyes?
Not something I can answer
Checking out the terminal map
It’s a very modern hairport
Eminently accessible
Escalator salons
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I’ve got a bike
For this water fountain
A Lady Lada
Radio station
Take the courtesy van
From the Gemini Diner
I live in a computer
On a seven-digit timer
He’s a big-time broheim
He’s running red lights
It’s nothing like the movie
Let’s never wedding again
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I Made A Rope Out Of You
02:02
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I made a rope out of you
Braided the hemp
Tied up my dreams of you
The dreams that you sent
I tied a knot into you
Cinched up the cord
Tamped down my dreams of you
Once I got bored
I made a rope out of you
I cut the cord into two
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16. |
League Math
02:35
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The coaches were looking
Then it morphed into
A six-footer or a 10-footer
Everybody else notices
League math
For 2,000 miles
And a turtleneck around the shirt
Available on the vagabond thread
But never saw him at dessert time
Snap-snap like that
They’d snap-snap like that
Everybody else notices
League math
Here today
Shuttered at the beginning
But it’s going right
He had a lot of traveling calls
But he’s a really good football player
Just not a sportsman
Just not a sportsman
Disguised as fungible
League math
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Wasted my time
Nose in the books
Making up words and
Dreaming up hooks
All flights are delayed today
On the psychedelic runway
I should have gone to film school
Frames-per-second spell truth
I was making up words
Approximating pictures
Not aiming fingers and thumbs
To frame compositions
I should have gone to film school
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Don’t you wanna sit next to me?
Hold this while I put it together
All that I heard
I gave the earth for
And his eyeglasses
And these are for you
How did this part get on here?
You’re happy—so sit down and eat
These contents are sundry
And liable to shift
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Malevoline
00:34
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O malevoline
O malevoline
On twin six-lane blacktop
We’re evil
We’re speed
O malevoline
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Your specifications mean nothing to me
I can’t even read them
I can’t even see
Last night I couldn’t get it on
This morning I couldn’t get it off
But it’s the trial of leaping
That leaves us profound
Down to a tuck and a cough
Let me take you down to the tombs below
It’ll be just like it was at Amontillado
We can settle this
Brick by brick
My friend
My brother
Surely you can see
Your specifications mean nothing to me
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How To Take A Punch
01:20
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Why tapdance around the inevitable?
Opened up to the luminous world
In all shades of white
Your heart is a paintbrush
And I the buffoon who never saw it coming
Twelve haymakers in
The game show of hands
Transmitting these collisions to Uneven Steven
Reaching for a grail
As the canvas rushes up
Overwhelming to porcelain stamina
I’ve only got one ghost to give
Facing off against the runts
When you’ve faced ’em down enough
It’s how to take a punch
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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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