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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
01:31
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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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Love His Craft
01:01
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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
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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
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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
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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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Heavy Petting Zoo
01:00
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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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Feeding The Monster
00:39
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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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Spartacus Loves You
01:39
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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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Throwing Up Flowers
01:11
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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
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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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Captain First Mates
01:03
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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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Treetops To Turtle Shell
01:13
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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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My Demons Are Winning
02:24
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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
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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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Young Gary Oldman
02:50
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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
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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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