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Stronger and Better

by Joseph Airport

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Pop a clutch Jump the handbrake It’s never too early To have your mind blown Brew a bean Crack an egg It’s never too early To have your mind blown Gestating in the solitaire shed Writing fanfic with Gardener Ed And dealing up cards from beneath the Edge of the ledge O Sledge! Come early, on the ground floor It’s never too early To have your mind blown
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Eyebrow brackets require new tactics Perfectly kerned I can’t believe that Alex isn’t coming It’s a bummer And Sarah isn’t coming either And Laura isn’t staying after There’s a forehead on your coffee table And Nate and Sam in the hopper I’m waiting by the exit ramp Trumped by car rental fingers Who’s coming in before who? Who’s coming in before you?
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Providence, Rhode Island 1927 Living with two aunts And a cat named Bubastis Wandering the neighborhoods Grist for the pulps Horror in the Antarctic Non-Euclidean angles Hijinks of cults In Louisiana bayous Although some might speak of his racism The shocking implications of quarks It’s the wordplay that lasts It’s the verbiage at last
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Not even the astronauts know All the places you and I will go Vaulting high over space Steps leaving no trace of their passage And when we come back down We’ll look around And find everyone Stronger and better Nostradamus has no clue All the things we’ll do
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Evilove 01:06
You can duel the devil But I need a smoke and a Caesar salad They flare their teeth They try to dig But they hit me in the nose So I dive with an 85-foot hose Digging into bone go with a family Even if you can’t do the deep stuff I put the hardline down But I’m a soft cell Crossing Europe hostel by hostel Just try to imagine all that passion Hey, Adrian
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Head Gods 01:12
Titan in the depths Glowing hibernation power The other land With new, original creatures Searching images that glow Fever of the head gods Nuclear slapstick Diabolical payroll goes! They are their own tune, head gods Corridors have sponged them From every man
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Robins are the nerds of birds Ravens are the greasers Bluejays are the pomp, the pimps Cardinals are the teachers Vultures are the freaks Pigeons are the losers Eagles are captains of industry Condors are the choosers You’re down a coal mine With your canary, girl And the yellow’s getting redder As the asthma starts to curl Peacocks are the queens of birds Woodpeckers are the pricks Roosters are the cocks of walks Sparrows know the tricks
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Listen To It 00:55
No Ian Pratt Brown-eyed psycho Where did he go? Playing a new game Ducking the dragnet Logical singing so happily As he was sent away to the bin All the world will shriek Laser beam dynomite Temporary anti-night And that’s how we rate our heroes, after all Our backs against the wall
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These shots won’t drink themselves There shots aren’t gonna drink themselves These shots can’t drink themselves These shots won’t drink themselves Get up No repeats Get up
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Ode to Walt Disney’s Cryogenically frozen head In the depths of the vaults In the darkest catacombs Eisner says Walt continues to think About matte-painted forests Black and white animation cel Steamboat Willie And the dissolution of existence And rapidly decaying signals God at his drafting table Walt taps the squib on India bottle rim But the indigo has run dry
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Blown away in a coffee cup Pigs chomp on light bulbs And burp out buttons of light And they fall all around The darkening bay And still you say Some butterflies are bound To be crushed upon the wheel Some butterflies are bound
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You’re feeding the monster You’re holding its hand Working the stamp press On slick piston heights Dwelling in its lair Detritus of lives You’re feeding the monster your hand That cog’s in your wheelhouse Smooth interlock Fucking the gear press In public depths Pulling the lever Impossible lives You’re feeding the monster your hand
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If you feel you’re an inadequate speck Rubbing bunions in bit.ly land A sopping hunk of grossness By a wall full of nipples You can take heart In this heartfelt yawner Beyond gladhanding grinners And Bookbub von Facebook’s yard There’s a lunar calendar man He’s shining heliographic He reminds us that Spartacus loves you You can take heart In this heartfelt yawner
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Are you daft? Haven’t seen a daffodil Your influenza credenza’s Teeming with vase And we’re throwing up flowers We’re retching up blooms All drenched in bile They spatter the tile
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The hoods on the corner Say you like to scrap You like to mix it up In your Tigers cap You drink a tumbler Of ice and sloe, sloe gin You’ve got the devil’s liquid Drooling off your chin And all the bruises creep In your whisker trap You like to mix it up In your Tigers cap You’ve got the devil’s liquid And you’re drinking it again
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Flyger Bob 01:07
Flyger Bob Manumission suffrage champion Struggling for union time Flyger Bob Chop chop, choosy moms All aboard the peanut express Choosy moms choose Sanborn Flyger Bob Slam it in your bazooka Street fighting for nerds’ rights Flyger Bob
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El capitán returns Triumphant to the gates Engorged with pride His tour of 40 states Ended without good reason But for his unsavory traits Hero embrace your heart When the captain first mates The brood to come Cells seethe and wait As the captain first mates
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Spring stalks are tough Pushing up bulb heads Through thawing loam Making cracks in concrete The slow, terrible strength Of things that thrive Easy, Dahmer Ribald, the screaming zipline From treetops to turtle shell Soaring past psychopaths To fecund soil And bucolic expanses Of hay and manure Where we tend invested futures Good weather to all you farmers
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I’ve given them inches Increments here and there They’ve formed beachheads and bulwarks Boardwalks and incursions Spiking my back to the wall I’ve burned for them candles Torches I’ve carried for eons And they answer the call to the torment Six-pack of ailment Swilling my jaw to the brim My demons are winning They’re doing me in They’re coiling the whips They’re weighing the strain My demons are winning They’re taking the inches
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Unisex Salon 01:20
My head is beginning to fade Creeping up from my ears To the crown of my skull And the cold steel scrapes Fresh clean nape In a unisex salon
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Rosenkrantz and Gary Oldman Are dead Now he’s an old man And I wish to go back To when Gary Oldman Was a young man Flip of his lid World in his hand Young Gary Oldman

about

“Stronger and Better” delivers a concentrated blast of multi-hued psychedelic rock. Featuring songs selected and sequenced by Robert Pollard—who also provided the album’s cover collage—“Stronger and Better” is Rockathon Records’ first extra-Pollard release in 14 years.

credits

released September 2, 2014

All songs by Joseph Airport
© 2014 Tsunami Patrol Music

Jereme Sanborn: Acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, percussion, words
Matthew Cutter: Vocals, words
Ben Penry: Bass, drums, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards

Joe Patterson: Electric guitar on Butterflies
Carly Perkins: Gate announcements on Great Animator

Recorded at The Psychedelic Runway in Ferndale, Michigan; Goubeaux Manor in Dayton, Ohio; and in Joe Patterson’s apartment and car

Discovered, edited and sequenced by Robert Pollard

Lovingly fucked with by Derl in Dayton, Ohio

Layout by Joe Patterson
Cover collage, “Go Worms!” by Robert Pollard
Back cover painting, “They Were All Like That,” by Vincent Williams

Dedicated to Joe

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"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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