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down the pike
03:32
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she doesn't care if you're rich or poor
she doesn't mind if you've never been to war
she doesn't add or multiply or testify
or keep score of how many times
you weren't a bore
or how important you think you are
or if you wish upon a star
or impress yourself on air guitar
she's coming down the pike for you
she doesn't even care if you drive a hybrid
inbred cross-fit heated-seat cockpit
gullwing moon-roof bulletproof
800-horse italian stallion sports car
it doesn't matter what you own
or leave alone or who you think you are
she's coming down the pike for you
she might knock on your heart
or lungs or liver or head for a start
but eventually she'll rip & slash & gash
& tear your world apart cause
sure as gravity or agony or apathy
she's coming down the pike for you
i attest this ain't no jest or test
someday she'll come for your arrest
to picnic your bones clean
if you know what i mean
& you can't lie or fly or try
to buy your way out of it
you can't reject it effect it perfect it
or special effect it
so you might as well accept it
she's coming down the pike for you
there's no self-defense you can do
but embrace the perpetual grace
of her faceless face
she's intense she's immense
& she loves to keep you in suspense
she's the original shock & awe
cause all things bow to her law
she’s coming down the pike for you
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2. |
landscape art
02:25
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landscape art
glaciers melting farms subdividing
drive-ins dying forests falling
skyscrapers rising prairies burning
lakes are drying rivers flooding
infinite aging skies are crying
landscapes changing landscapes changing
roadways spreading sidewalks setting
wood barns collapsing grasslands ebbing
old growth dying oceans rising
fires raging tundra thawing
landscapes changing landscapes changing
climate flowing people moving
plates keep shifting future drifting
spaces shrinking airports expanding
wetlands draining deserts growing
cell towers multiplying smog appalling
suburbs sprawling ravens complaining
daybreak breaking traffic jamming
landscapes changing landscapes changing
waste mounting clear cuts haunting
wires crossed the past is lost
haystacks history caboose a mystery
penny retired newspapers expired
winds howling trees bending
humans fouling fires raging denial unfading
the past disappearing
turner keeps painting
air doesn't care if smoke keeps invading
time keeps destroying
& space keeps creating
with or without you
landscapes changing landscapes changing
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3. |
upgraded colossus
03:33
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upgraded colossus
give me your wired & screen-addicted
your ice cream & meme afflicted
give me your lovelorn soft-porn blue pill
credit card bill run-of-the-mill lonely heart
outcast redneck weapons expert
give me your befuddled masses
from here to parnassus
give me your poor your raconteur
your amor with delusions of grandeur
give me your racist your homophobe
your feeble sheeple zombie
& your born-again ex-smoker
self-righteous cross-dressing nazi
give me your obese your obtuse your confused
your bipolar soldier your unholy roller
your abused & refused
& your dumbed-down small-town
renowned political clown
give me your old broken cowboys
& past their prime playboys
give me your teenage street corner medicine men
& your two-faced corporate ladder climbers
give me your washed-up athletes
& your brainwashed wall street elite
give me your heartless & your homeless
give me your helpless your idiots your savants
your servants & masters of unspeakable acts
give me your wannabes your rabies
your rabbis
your thalidomide babies
your molesters your protesters
your drunks & monks your seekers
your preachers your teachers & priests
give me your anorexics your dyslexics
your geeks & freaks
& your walking antiques
give me your bloated white privilege
& your ink jet black activist
give me your brown bag brownie
your yellow fever yellow & your refugee red
give me your screaming magenta
your hot pink & your half-dead
give me your blueblood & greenbacks
your bureaucrat gray & rita hayworth ginger
your glam & glitter your gold & silver
give me your sun-kissed orange
& your smoker's lung ochre
give me your imperfect purple
& your perfectly mediocre
give me your rainbow boho hobo
& give me everything to go
give me the world's biggest melting pot
give me all the colors in your crayon box
give me a taste of freedom
& a shot of liberty
give me a chaser of memory eraser
then deliver me with a strong punch
of real history
give me the whole fucking lot
forgive my tempest temper
you see i'm amerika
the greedy sot
so god bless you all
but goddamn gimme gimme gimme
give me everything you got
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4. |
sleepwalking
02:43
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sleepwalking
we gave ourselves the mark
& we created the beast
big brother has the toys to watch you
& watch you they do
the chip in your card
the GPS in your car
the text on your phone
the cameras on the street
the speakers have ears
the internet trail of browsing crumbs
that brother's been watching you for years
all that's left is thought-control
seems they got it covered in our dreams
we're sleepwalking with the beast
& we don't want to wake up
we're sleepwalking with the beast
& there's no turning back
we're sleepwalking with the beast
& we don't want to know
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5. |
stupor to stupor
04:40
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stupor to stupor & dust to dust
the perfection of our perpetual stupor
how they trained us to sleepwalk through
the body-snatching effect of education
athletics employment indoctrination
marriage children & system
the zen of mind-numbing times ten
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
we got less joy from more toys
we got more highs & less rise
we got less funny with more money
we got more yo-yo & less mojo
they made sure we were disenfranchised
disengaged & scattered in divide
& conquer disarray
we used to believe
we could change the world
give peace a fighting chance & not fall into
the same grinding machine as our parents
but the clockwork world ate us alive
the minute hand held us in our seats
day after month after year
we got fed the same lie enough times
a digital watch looked like a victory
we traded one stupor for another
tricycle for bicycle for car for truck for bus
for plane for train for jet for submarine
& dreams of a rocket-ship to mars
stupor after stupor after stupor
until it was too late & we realized
all stupors lead to loneliness
waiting in our cages to die
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
but not as sad as it sounds
because stupor takes the edge off
convinces you to feel better & begin to believe
your ordinary contribution might help
someone write a decent obituary
as if the dull circular
routine of mundane existence
really made a difference
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
stupor to stupor & dust to dust
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6. |
these bones
04:19
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this form this flesh these bones
this me this you this other this curve
this existence this hard this easy
edgeless nebulous dimension
this life this blood this flow & pulse
of wave this curse this circular
tubular raw teeming insular
universe
this sound this color these holy
& profane continuous molecular
v-v-v-vi-vi vie vibe vibist vibing vibrant
vibrational vi-vi-vibrations
this dream this stage & play this work
& playground this dozy mosey slumberous
sleepwalking work
this mask this teaching
this taught this fraught taut love & hate
tightrope high-wire act
this form this flesh these bones
this action this station this cross & road
& path these prayers these words & stage
this wheel this aging this new old age
this turning this dying
& decay
this death this end this perpetual arrival
of sub-atomic dissolve into endless recycle
this sudden wonder these trumpets
this warning this dawning this blast this bolt
this blow & jolt this coming this welcoming
this seismic shudder this atomic shock
this great cosmic ray quake
this electric body this everybody these bones
this flesh those curves this blood this pulse
this flow & wave
this birth this wheel
this world this life
this form this flesh these bones
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