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Push Play
01:36
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How do you do? You’re the creator of a little big bang that brought me to life. I knew it the moment you pushed play.
Our story begins with a secret. Just between you and me, some of your children think they’re chosen. Continuity seems present in the present tense. Forgive me if this is voiced with a deceptive cadence.
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Gimme Jim-Jims
05:34
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Baroness/Barenness
In the land where the serpents lie there’s a decent man with a diamond eye and another eye that’s made just to cry.
Atop the albatross, the man consumed by wanderlust. You fear the gods but he would rather die.
Over the abyss
The ocean with no bottom
Fun apocalypse
He’s crying for nobody
In the land where the seabird flies there’s sirens singing lullabies. Enchantresses romance me to the sea.
Don’t you know one caught my eye as she sang in wicked spats and cries. She looks like she would like my poetry.
Out of the abyss
The ocean with no bottom
Fun apocalypse
She’s crying for nobody
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Nuclear Confusion
03:45
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You can make a living in space
Watch old light decay
Inside a vacuum you’ll stay
Turn the air away
Observe the macro display
A singular daybreak
Who do you think you are?
How do you draw an invisible line?
Where do you set the bar?
Exploding light takes it’s form
In clouds of bulbous orange
Electricity inside me
Only wants to believe
It grounds itself out of need
Opposed to needing your feet
This is what I wanted to be?
A singular daydream
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Voyage to Nowhere
03:22
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The cyclops looks through one point of view
Unearthly voices rip him in two
“Get your heart out of your ass! If you want to scrutinize go to the zoo!”
The voices can be big-headed as
The big heads that voiced them
Sky hypocrites
And as for me well
I’m somewhere else
Where your bitching echoes
through nothingness
It’ll expand until I split my side
It is the greatest joke of all time
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Chivalrous Idiot
02:56
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I awoke so deep down
lit a match but couldn’t see the light
She just laughed, I yelled back
“You’re top half is incredible!”
Gwendolyn, Gwendolyn
I’m begging you please don’t turn me into dust
Then she cried
“Hell arise!”
Bolts of lightning
Twas quite frightening
Vitrified crystalline
I became statued fulgurite
Closed my eyes, shed a tear
She made my eyelids disappear
Gwendolyn, am I destined
to drop my jaw for you over and over again?
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The Modern Life
04:35
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Leave it to 1, 2, 3
Don’t do if not reasonably
I live a modern life
And if you don’t like what you see
Simply close your eyes
You don’t need to know
You need to do what you’re told
Bound to return to the dream I know
Enter the dome city
The lines are all single file
to live a modern life
I saw an impossible beast fly by
Outside the city lines
I closed my eyes
We live the modern life
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Run from the Fungusaur
Fight in the cosmic war
Under the command of
Captain Z-Bop’s Friendly Friends
Bask in brutality
Lose your virginity
Under the command of
Captain Z-Bop’s Friendly Friends
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In the land where nothing thrives, impossible beasts endure a synthesis within their chemicals. The animals become a storm of sound.
Superposed, their orbitals are growing more entangled with your feeble brain. You’ll welcome their millennial migration to your ears.
Many trees dance bare
The sky stood gray
And the dome city
Maintained its shape
But lo and behold
A thunderous boom
of doom arose
The storm of sound at howling height
will eradicate everything they know
The end is mere unless you fear
Every atom revealed to your mind’s eye
Consciousness of commotion marches to the sound of eardrums. Nature would adore the vacuum if it had nowhere else to sit.
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Exploding Light
03:21
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Ray of shade gracefully over the sea
My old bed suspended at the hand hand of gravity
Whispered a phrase
The wind took away
Exhaled a salty breath
Air in a cage
All I see, exploding light in symmetry
A tidal wave from the sun to anything
I turn away those warming rays
Must be the moon in me
Wild and free
Like cosmic debris
Out of its orbit
Blown to smithereens
Now I sit at the shores of the bottomless sea
And I taste only salt and breathe only breeze
Distantly festering an explosion meant to be!
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A Speaker in Your Stereo
05:04
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I met the man with the diamond eye.
“I’d rather be naked than be right.”
That’s what he said to me.
“The narrator told me that this tale is too tall. We should spare em all and break the fourth wall into infinity.”
“Everything comes undone.
Let’s make fun of everyone.”
So, the man took a ridiculous oath
to let the listener know that he knows
this is a story
He says “Ha Ha Ha!”
And then the man shouldered me through a plot hole.
Now I’m a speaker in your stereo. I’m your narrator.
If you’re endeavoring to find closure
Just remember that it won’t be over, not until the end.
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Family Animals Scranton, Pennsylvania
Family Animals are an alternative rock band from Northeast Pennsylvania, spanning an eclectic array of sounds such as
psychedelia, punk, funk, and progressive rock.
Comprised of long-time friends and brothers, Family Animals continue to transform their sound, constantly experimenting and writing new material. Their latest album, 'The End is Mere' is set to be released February 16th 2019.
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