1. |
Taipans Adore You
00:33
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TAIPANS ADORE YOU
Afternoon warmth
The taipans adore you
Venomous creatures have needs and desires
And while they implore you with plain threats of violence
They seek amusement and freedom from harm
Afternoon storm the reptiles don’t like you
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2. |
Love Behold The Sky
02:06
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LOVE BEHOLD THE SKY
Love behold the sky
Fierce black clouds obscure the sun
Rain they shall not bear
But I'll not be easily moved
Or displaced with the greatest of ease
And save the approach of an imminent fire
I’ll not briskly abandon or flee
I’d love to be cast as the type of performer who rarely performs
And brings in the job for a twelfth of the money
Without ever leaving his home
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3. |
Cuban Illness Anxiety
01:24
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CUBAN ILLNESS ANXIETY
Sheer lack of judgment
In the spring of ‘45
At an offhand juncture
Where meetings come to mind
Exploding congregations in the blitzkrieg’s eyes
We’ve only got so many rules to reorganize
Or file away for Havana in the spring of ‘59
In a slump-backed paddle boat trawling o’er the line
You know you’ve been mistaken when they read your mind
You’ve only got so many-splendored things left to buy
Or throw away
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4. |
Mare Island
01:21
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MARE ISLAND
Mare Island
You’ve decent tides
You’re near the bay
Fair climates embrace you
Each and every day they’re silent
Your naval fleets have gone away
Entire frames of business on their way down
Mare Island
You attract a variety of firms
They’re tyrants they’d like to raise you from the dead
Their pirates will salvage every piece of lead
And iron out the details while they spread out
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5. |
Fresher Tin Villages
00:54
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FRESHER TIN VILLAGES
Isle
Be glad you’re at sixes and sevens
With all of your pieces of eight
Isle
Be glad your impeachable solvency leaves you assured of your wake
And I hope you realize your marines enjoyed their lives
Real life
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6. |
Palomine Cranes
02:18
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PALOMINE CRANES
Load up the container ships
All aboard for the Sea of Japan
Saddle up them horses
And leap across the Rio Grande
Let’s give the trade war seven or eight more flames to fan
Palomine cranes
Before you get waist-deep or deeper
Take off another layer of clothes
Ignore the days before beepers and unionized takers of tolls
You missed the ferryboats and by god you bless the trolls
Palomine cranes
The fragrant sutures of your vine-covered homes
Keep no wounds from weeping furthermore
They only wrap themselves around the slats
To make an awfully tempting home for rats
They provide no shelter
Only shade for the belles to sip their lemonade
While deep below their husbands wallow in a sea of lost invoices
The choice is clear to them
Gotta keep their asses in gear if they want to get further ahead
But the farther they ship their gear the deeper they sink in the red
How many more krypto-wonder tchotchkes can fit on the sled?
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7. |
High Maintenance
03:47
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HIGH MAINTENANCE
Your clear view changes a bit
You remain forsworn to participate in feats of strength
You blend your vile nature
With my own inspired points of view
You write worthwhile songs
Scrawl inebriate rhymes
Reel in lots of gilled creatures when you haul your nets and lines
Feel a spot of guilt when you stake your claim to their lives
They’ve got no cause to make you hurt
You chide erstwhile codes
Ban them for their good
Deal with lots of shrill people in what you call your neighborhood
It sounds out of fashion but they fashion houses made of wood
You’ve your whole life in which to live
You are so high maintenance
You’ve sapped all my patience since you ran away from life
You’ve drawn your wild faces in
You are so high maintenance
You whip your vibrance into a violent confrontational swirl
You pledge your silence until you find the unattainable pearl
But you can always be a goodfella
And you can always be on my team
My admission to your final appearance
Is plied weekly from your vital adherences
You are so high maintenance
You’ve sapped all my patience since you ran away from life
You’re obscure you can’t see in darkness
You’ve got to find the light switch to something else
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8. |
Capital I
02:20
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CAPITAL I
All grown up with the outlook of a sheaf?
Did you wait for the scythe to cut you down?
Are you bundled away?
Has the wiry skeleton
That remains of your once cherubic sense of adventure
Been placed in an hermetically sealed childproof display?
Give up self-pity for lent
And concede you’re important with a capital I
You enjoy and you need the human race
You conceal and ignore the yellow flag
And proceed without care
While the old people act in the roles of the good Samaritans
Do you deign do you dare show your color?
Do you feel you’re giving way to their mild temperament?
You admit they’re important with a capital I
They want you safely home in the drive
They’ve been incorporating their lives
Into your own fine mess
You sweep up all your windswept piles and jump up
It’s amazing how it works
When you feel you inspire everyone
You’re a peach you’re a pear
You’re double-helix royal legionnaire
When you smile at everyone
You’re in deep
You’re ensnared
You’re in trouble
When you preach what you prepare to refrain from ever doing
Until you feel like you’re important with a capital I
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9. |
Bright Bold Speck
02:40
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BRIGHT BOLD SPECK
Real estate at heaven’s gate for prices lawyers reap
Bells reveal and chimes conceal the lines a soldier leaps
But sinking your faith in the company’s future
Leaves a bright bold speck on the screen
A blip on the vaguest machine
Can lead you to believe econometrics
Arbitration’s all the rage in meaningful pursuit
Of carefree days and limestone weathered safety-coated youth
Did you believe it would be so demanding?
Like an ice-cold rational being
You stripped the marigold clean
You’ve obviously conceded your commandments
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10. |
Pearl Blossom Orange
00:42
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PEARL BLOSSOM ORANGE
Pearl blossom orange
Mind over matter
Eden would never forsake one of you
Smart as a hatter
With sane points of view
Sought by collectors
Peerless in form
Afternoon storm
On those days he grew
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11. |
California in February
04:30
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CALIFORNIA IN FEBRUARY
Your sidewalks are towering
Like small-scale Mt. Everests
With what kind of shape they’re in who needs your bay trails?
With blue from your ocean
And gold found in every hill
The jewel for your commonwealth
Your beautiful campus
Your beautiful canvas
And after they hibernate
As pale as the weather that swept all the clouds away
In radiant sunlight
What could have been so intriguing
What could have been so dramatic
Turned out to be another waste of time
Your own tired magistrates
Your meaningless senators
Will now have to demonstrate their need for discrepancies
You’ve blown wide of everyone who’ll pay for security
In spite of your activists you prize your own atmosphere
Your gray skies have been replaced by green cloaks and daffodils
Euphoric enlightenment
Your tightrope is infinite
What could have been so intriguing
What could have been so dramatic
Turned out to be another waste of time
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12. |
Matterhorn
03:14
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MATTERHORN
You can’t give animals advice
To heathens knowledge is a blithering crime
But when their fireworks ignite
They hear Vivaldi’s radiant might
Statues of Venus DeMilo in flight
And Day-Glo begonias appear in the sky
But quickly dissolve into streamlets of olive and beige
The moment their leash is untied
Obviously there was a Matterhorn-sized spike beneath their chair
How else could they ever leap so high
And fall like angels without wings?
Their indentations in the ground
Upon their impact leave the telltale signs
Of sleeping geniuses aroused
And dormant behavior awakened from sound slumber
Creationist theories abound
Blending the ups with the mids with the downs
But none can explain how creation is wrought from the flame
Or why the savant-like and mildly insane
Perform acts of the vanguard and bellwether strain
Important and meekly profound
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13. |
Pumpkins Angels
02:23
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PUMPKINS ANGELS
The angels need the pumpkins
Like the sailors need the navy
Ignatius bore no children
Which inspired his neighbors’ envy
Their features are not feature length
You feel the fame and fortune
You reason your reasoning’s away
You followed your laughter
You’ve seen yourself today
You darling
You’re natural
You need to know the days he missed you
The angels want their scientists back
They breed their own crusaders
The pumpkins long to switch your bags
With other people’s paydirt
You plead with all your patience
Get ahead
You love to take your tea before you swallow your advil
You need to calculate your motions
Your seasons
You’ve seen beyond the pale
You’re smiling and you mean this is ours
And I mean this is ours
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14. |
Spacegirl
01:58
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SPACEGIRL
Spacegirl
Moving my planets
Reducing my plane fares
You beckon
You’ve stayed close to me girl
Including the times I was cool
Your smile is as big as the sun
Eclipsing the danger
You’re my spacegirl
You orbit my existence as one
You shine like a diamond
You’re my spacegirl
Twinkling the skies and you think I admire you
I would not deny that
Indeed girl I'd like to be yours with the moon
I blaze my emotional trails
With you as my guidepost
You’re my spacegirl
You pull my astronomical weight
Into your apogee
You’re my spacegirl
You are the planet
You’re my terra firma
You help me revolve around the earth
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15. |
Cactus League Game
02:03
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CACTUS LEAGUE GAME
Do you have pictures at work?
Did all your tithings breed sensationally?
Do you have a mind of your own and a Promethean aptitude?
Tell me what you feel
When you solemnly feel
Burdened by the weight of the clutch and the brood
In the real contest I might like you best
I definitely do in the cactus league game
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16. |
Our Market Share
03:02
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OUR MARKET SHARE
The features and the scenery sublime
You’re perched upon the Capitoline
I’ve got several engagements with you
And I don’t need to say I don’t do
Ancients and the cherubs come in
With several of your favorite kids
We’ve got each of our parents to kiss
And a beautiful day to exist in the law
We’ve got our strands and chains to tame the orphan lanners
We’ve got our plans to make in one another’s planners
We’ve gone through real good times
We know what rain and shine is
We’ve been involved in whatever it takes to feel proud
We’ve spied our market share in peaceful conversation
We’ve placed our objects where the subject’s often placed
We know we won’t ever beat that
We love the lowdown beeswax
We know who makes it unique
That’s you in person
Friends from afar
Now we can feast and convene on the bow
If we retreat to the back of the boat
I’ll seek your face in the dark and the cold
We’ll have each other we won’t be alone
Even if we do nothing
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17. |
Favorite Blue Sweater
01:34
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FAVORITE BLUE SWEATER
Presence apart
In the catholic sense
Of the breeze
Of the moth
Of our epiphany
Disturbs the clouds into rainfall
Sun breaks out
Only twins exceed our empathy
They no longer find semblance nor divisiveness
To make you feel better
Would make me feel better
To make you fall in with the crowd
Like your favorite blue sweater
Would make me feel better
To make you feel better
Would make me flow in like the tide
With the change in the weather
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18. |
Be Nice to Plants
04:12
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BE NICE TO PLANTS
The devil is mocking you
When you say that a human life
Is worth more than an animal’s life
Or for that matter botanical life
The civil rights of turnips fall quickly into view
When living things are sovereign beings regardless of I.Q.
We mercy-kill the Dutch elm patients
Why not people who can voice the need
To need no more interminable ICU
But free-range vegetables we can conceptually oppose
We like to see them grown in those oppressive little rows
Would you like to get ahead?
Here’s an example of exactly what I mean
We should know better than to mess with mother n
Furthermore don’t waste your time arguing
Be nice to plants
The witches are riding you
You wake from sound slumber
You can’t move your arms at all
You can’t move your legs either
Synaptic means of pleasure
These are treats you can’t avoid
Fulfilling your desire rarely brings you any joy
The angels beat the pumpkins like the devil breaks the rules
Ecology and collagen combine to save you
I dreamed I heard you singing
You were completely run-of-the-mill
What happens when the cuckolded men refuse to foot the bill?
Will you sink without a trace
When your grants run at least as dry as you?
Have you exhausted all the marriages you can ruin?
You landed with the robbers and the ragged men
They trusted you in god and you finagled them
You hypocrite! Mountebank! Good for naught!
You’re underweight, undercooked, and over-wrought
Be nice to plants
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19. |
Green Companion of Gilt
03:07
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GREEN COMPANION OF GILT
Their halyards framed in lennow shades of forty-acre mule
Lie dangling from the clothesline at the Athabaskan school
Their meager transportation is not as fleet as a three-wheeled pram
With slightly fewer horses than the northernmost prairie town
The green companion of gilt
Rolled in like a paper cyclone
Why pay the forgers four months’ wages
When the forests are made entirely of the green companion of gilt?
Those born in age of plenty were scorned for creating fiscal rage
Where there previously hadn’t been any
The green companion of gilt
Eloped with uranium
Quietly yeaned their unsacred by-blow
And bid Godspeed to the churlish highlands
Indeed the manor’d been milked by a stream of esurient dissemblers
Those who remained as stablehands
Weren’t pleased when they weren’t remembered
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20. |
God Stiffens My Frame
04:06
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GOD STIFFENS MY FRAME
Where have you immersed yourself?
Do you aspire to preach consolably?
Like a parrot I try to make my words ring true
A bleeding broken sparrow I become when I'm not in the grace of you
I guess I'm jealous of the days when I was sure you didn’t quite exist
Patience fills your dovetailed life
You rest beside your sweet betrothed me
While you ferret your prime intent
Your sacred altarpiece
You worry about your parents
And you worry about your inhumanity
Above the omniumgatherum the silent voice intones and compensates
Leg over leg god stiffens my frame
Held over twelve more seconds remain
Leg over leg god stiffens my frame
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