1. |
I Just Surfaced
04:09
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When I came into this world
They grabbed my head and pulled it
Doctor told me not to cry
So sorry
Can’t control it
I can beg for your forgiveness
But I feel quite offended
I just surfaced
What you scared of?
A bouncing baby boy?
When I landed on the planet
My future plan was branded
In an infant’s marble mind
Still dense like solid granite
I’m too slow to run the gamut
Blow it when it’s fixed
Swing and miss
Hit the bricks
You‘ll have to grin and bear it
Kiss your boy goodbye then
When I came into this world
They told me little stories
I got posies in my pocket
Rings around my fingers
Got no checkered past either
But they wanna king me
Gotta be me
When they see me
Will they kiss the speakers?
Kiss your boy goodbye then
When I fell into your arms
I swore I saw an angel
With them eyes like weighted blankets
They pin me like Kurt Angle
Asking is this hold a strangle?
Cuffed me like a bangle
Beads and baubles
As I wobble
Tell me what’s your angle?
Kiss your boy goodbye then
Big block is bouncing
The neighbors are asking
About the paint job peeling away
Don’t pull it off
I’m throwing up
I didn’t ask you so please walk away
I just surfaced
What you scared of?
Kiss your boy goodbye then
When I came into this world
they grabbed my head and pulled it
Doctor told me not to cry
So sorry
Can’t control it
I can beg for your forgiveness
But I feel quite offended
I just surfaced
What you scared of?
A bouncing baby boy?
When I leave this world like momentary flashes
Guess my matter will not matter
When scattered into ashes
Like they told me in those classes
When I was just a larva
It’s not karma or big pharma
It’s the toughest pill to swallow
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2. |
Nice
03:07
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Gentle and lovely
I’m a man when I wanna be nice
Ladder climber
Battered dime
Your looks don’t matter if you isn’t nice
Telephone ringing I ain’t going out tonight
(What looking like this?)
With that tattoo on your neck
Well he think he got you pegged like a Lite Brite
(He might)
You could be nice and play along right?
We could be nice and get along right?
Nice
That shit was nice
Cannonball diving into your private life
Since Hannah passed the bar
I can get away with killing the vibe
(Am I right?)
A dollar in the hand is not the measure of a man
(Am I right?)
Well we can’t pass the bar without our bellies up
So put that gin on ice
You could be nice and play along right?
We could be nice and get along right?
Nice
That shit was nice
That shit was tight
That shit was nice
What if we got married?
I come from old money
Watch me ooze good fortune
What if this is it?
Nice
That shit was nice
That shit was tight
That shit was nice
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3. |
Family Ties
03:59
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(Alright I’m gonna need some help)
Family on the come up
Some have seen some jail time
I got what I needed
Daddy hustled for dimes
Momma got a gun now
I know where she hide it
Got myself a pit bull
So don’t even try it
Grandma’s got a new piece
Military bloodline
Skippy on the east coast
coming home in July
Pain will make it better
Toss me in the shredder boy
Newborn sin performer
Chair facing the corner
Pain will make it better
Toss me in the shredder boy
Newborn sin performer
Chair facing the corner
(I was) Back when I was a little boy
Cousins practice violence
Christmas with a black eye
Bite the soap for swearing
Mary’s whooping stick on standby
Poppa was a mountain
tossed me in the deep-end
I was only 5 then
Now I sink in like a head pin
Pain will make it better
Toss me in the shredder boy
Newborn sin performer
Chair facing the corner
Pain will make it better
Toss me in the shredder boy
I like living this way
I do it on purpose
They say when the going gets tough
The soft get got
Chin down watch your six
Family on the come up
Some don’t see the sunshine
Khaki pressed and pleated
Grandma wanted us to look nice
Brother got the brains but
Mom says I’m the nice one
Screaming for attention
Built to break the tension
Now I got a no show
Not in sanitation
Absent from the cashflow
It come like masturbation
Found myself in timeout
Wonder when I get out
Waiting for that bailout
never take the safe route
Paint me like your French girls
Paint me as a villain
Working in the basement at
Least I’m in the building
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Well it’s…
Sunny in January cause California migrates north to my doorstep
Where will we put these fucks?
I guess they’ll sleep on my couch
I’m sick of hands outstretched but I’ll fill your pockets if your story fits my theme of my day
Feels like the boat left without me
Good I’m sea sick anyway
I fully expected my walls to fall away like cardboard
A television crew to hit the floodlights
Gimme Ed Harris please
Truman shit (Dome sweet dome baby)
Add one and one kid
You’re too stupid
Two plus another is
Four someone better suited
I hate my own vibe but everything is Gucci
It’s the way my father raised me
Will my mother praise me?
Not if I’m lazy so I don’t smoke flowers or daisies
There’s no baby in that stroller
It’s probably what’s left of a feral cat
Getting Jaked off on a rotating chat
Add one and one kid
You’re too stupid
Two plus another is
Four someone bigger
A chapter with a main character complex
A legion of “protags”
Fuck I might be a bot
Riddled with anxiety
Our outlooks on shuffle
They will think my generation weak but they never grew up knowing everything
Keep your head up you have no idea who will come along
I’m not creative enough to be pessimistic?
Therapy is booked out
I’m not your father please stop calling me that
Feeling like I passed my prime before I walked the earth
Walking contradiction just a walking contradiction
How many times can she shoot herself in the foot before she turns the gun?
The American dream isn’t what she used to be
Loose change in the ashtray it’s all simple Macks-ematics
It’s all simple Macks-ematics
Crush His Head skull and brain
Cave it in like man made Styrofoam
Truth is loose cents spent
Seek comfort in discomfort if it leads to truth
When I go to bed at night do you really think I’m sleeping? (NO)
I climb out my window
I’ve lived 168 lives and I’m only 28
In 2 years I’ll be 30 and I will have killed about 12 more selves
It’s the only math I’ll ever need
Add one and one kid
You’re too stupid
Two plus another is
For you
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5. |
Steamroller
03:45
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All we did today was watch TV and fuck
I push your buttons like I press my luck
We dine like kings when dad can cover the spread
Until then hold a bag of rice against my head
I steamroller over it
Compound your problems
When I…
Fall like an anvil on a cartoon cat
Friends and strangers can be vacuum packed
What am I to do?
Just die in the snow?
Oh hell no
I love breathing like Rob loves blow
I steamroller over it
Compound your problems
When I…
Steamroller over it
I find peace forgetting about the world in my head
Time to drop the reins and hold my matter at hand
Tween the shattered screen I keep the lay of the land
Health wealth or stealth I sneak away to bed
When I steamroller over it
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6. |
They Don't Pay
04:50
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I gut the big fish
And drain the small pond
I get my ass kicked but
Still get what I want
They say I’m charmless!
They say I’m harmless!
Like Baldwin popping blanks
I kill regardless
They don’t pay
I met the big wigs
The rubber giants
I served it up for them
They never try it
I call red rover!
I call red rover!
I call red rover!
Send Sunny over
Cause once I got em
Oh boy I’m snapping knecks
My Dina’s eating good
My boys are cashing checks
We could pay rent!
Corporate compliments!
We bought a Learjet!
And haven’t crashed it yet
They don’t pay
I have seen
The end of me
In all my forms
I am square one born
I have seen
The end of things
And that's done
But I will ascend
But there’s one thing in my way
(What?)
They don’t pay
(At all)
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7. |
Comfort Flow
03:57
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Harry was a long man working long days
Sweating in a saw mill running that big blade
Big boss came
Said you gotta stay late
While he was leaning on the stack to obliterate
When it came down they knew just who to blame
Harry with his hand on the lever down
Activate
Four fingers severed like feathers on hunted game
Harry thought it might be time for a job change
Air flows cool through my window
I’ve been fooled
I’m in limbo
Ben pushed mop on his very first day
Little did he know of the recent foul play
Shout rang out said come right away
Bring a bigger bucket cause boss is purée
When he walked in his face turned solid clay
Hadn’t seen so much red since the holidays
Splattered was the matter on the walls like spray paint
Benny thought it might be time for a sick day
Air flows cool through my window
I’ve been fooled
I’m in limbo
Window to a world outside
Lean out it’s open wide
My shoes in open air
Rips through my clothes
And and and
I fall in
Air flows cool through my window
I’ve been fooled
I’m in limbo
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8. |
Cowboys & Cattlebroads
03:01
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Caught thinking of us
I push and now you’ve pulled away
But that’s how I love
Like a vice I pressure you to stay
Like a runaway ramp
This is getting steep
Like your morning tea
It’s hot water indeed
It don’t fit right
Then don’t buy it
This shit’s Velcro
So don’t tie it
You I know I love you
Don’t deny it
You deny it
Then you supplied it
Every dog has its day
Every day ends in Y
Everyone has their flavor
But you’re the one that I like
Then I think of Chuck
I’m back at camp hearing his name
What did he say
To me on his last dying day?
It don’t fit right
Then don’t buy it
This shit’s Velcro
So don’t tie it
You I know I love you
Don’t deny it
You deny it
Then you supplied it
Grandfather told me there’s Cowboys and Cattlebroads
Like a bucking bull
I can’t let go
I’m the painted clown now
And you know our love’s the rodeo
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9. |
Can Man
04:45
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10 ft tall
Hands that hang
Knuckles drag through your gutter drain
The block is hot
His eyes aflame
On his list he’s written your first name
The heat is on
Can Man grins
Through the blinds
Do not let him in
Eyes closed
Hit the floor
Lean the desk on the bedroom door
Let him in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
He don’t give in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
(Eyes closed in fear I crumble)
Let him in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
He burned the bridge
He smoked the Inn,
Broke the bank
And he torched the gym
Last stop before the fall
He needs your neck
And he’s in the hall
Let him in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
He don’t give in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
(Eyes closed in fear I crumble)
Let him in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
Blood is drawn
Can Man wins
Scrounge for change and you play again
Let him in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
He don’t give in
It’s the same thing tomorrow
(Eyes closed in fear I crumble)
I will win
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10. |
Ranchero
04:06
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Ranchero my entire life
The setting sun on your iron hide
Ranchero sweep me off my feet
No such thing as a dead end street
Ranchero now the world is ours
The greatest human and the fastest car
Ranchero now or bloods the same
Unleaded fuel courses through my veins
Ranchero (I wanna ride)
Ranchero is a flying car
Soaring over your boulevard
Ranchero no you don’t get old
20 pistons of solid gold
Ranchero god bless my luck
One part hot rod, the other: truck
Ranchero we will never die
Majestic beast meets a lucky guy
Ranchero (I wanna ride)
Don’t break down on me
Ranchero you rolled into my life
And I will never recover from this
Ranchero (I wanna ride)
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12. |
The Big M (b-side)
05:50
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13. |
Tiptoes (b-side)
05:10
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