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LF1.9 (InZaNiT)
01:09
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The klonopin cowboy and the glamour thief
Keep at arm's length, stay just out of reach
They negotiate means of InZaniT
Erupt into bouts of InZaniT
I began to sing the self importance river blues
I thought it might get me a little closelr to you
But all that I found were my recessive genes
Stood on the brink of InZaniT
And as I went, a lone luna moth
Found their way into my tablecloth
But I had to hide them just in time for tea
Sat end to end with InZaniT
To the jury, plead InZaNiT
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Let Me Dance
03:35
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What is the big deal
What are they building over the hillside?
Well it's driving me mad
I just want what the other guy had
Let me dance
Let me dance
I want his education, his patience
I want to move like he does from station to station
Well it's making me so sad
I just want what the other guy has
Let me dance
Let me dance
It's a contortion
Out of proportion
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The clouds were concerning
The bouncer was burning
And I was turning
Into a mongoose
That could kill king cobra
And the song came in like a crossfade
Happened in a movie
Happened in a song
We all sang along
It went
Boom
Crash
We all sang along
In a song
Tonight
I'm going to attempt the unattemptable
Content the uncontentable
Tonight
With three whole minutes of flight
In a tower
Made competely out of light
It went boom
Crash
The song came in like a crossfade
Happened in a movie
Happened in a song
We all sang along
It went
Boom
Crash
Soot
Ash
Sometimes you wake up from a grazing and your body has changed
Your shoulders hang lower, voice gruffer
Quicker to snap
Your fingers are tiwsted into a fence shape, blocking off your heart
That has been brimming with potential for twenty something years
And still not found its mark
We all sang along
It went boom
Crash
Soot
And ash
Thought you'd never ask
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Elephant Funeral
03:35
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When I saw them keel over
I didn't know what to do
I swam like a Spartan
In my red tartan to you
I sent the emails
They don't come back
I took the mask off
And had a heart attack
I feel like elephants do
When someone dies
I just wanna go to the river now
And cry
I feel like a sardine
Like I'm packed inside a can
It's all so senseless
And I cannot understand
Feel like my fate is
A part of a larger plan
I feel confounded
I don't know what to choose
I feel like elephants do
When somebody goes
I just wanna get to the river now
And row
Children
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5. |
Calling Luther Corli
04:07
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Where were you on the night the music stopped?
When the blacklight backlight popped?
When you knew that we'd lost control?
The disco ball that does not turn
Man I swear we never learn
I know that it ain't nobody's fault
That doesn't make it easy
That doesn't put my mind at ease
Calling Luther Corli
If you recall we had a deal
And if the deal is off
And you've gone soft
Then tell me how you feel
Didn't notice that the light had changed
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Castle in the Kimberleys
04:29
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I want to put a rock and roll band together
I want to live forever and ever and ever
I want to put my name down on the map
I want to give it all away and take it all back
But darling it hurts
I wanna die up and curl
I want a
Castle in the Kimberly's
Well if you
Really care about cars
Turn right at the stars
And start talking quickly
Spit it out kid listen
I've had enough and I'm through
Of you and your mosquitoed attitude
You'd think after a night like that
I'd curl into a ball
But I didn't turn into a ball at all
I turned into a shoe
And then I walked you all the way home
Darling it hurts
I wanna die up and curl
I want a
Castle in the Kimberly's
Darling it hurts me to say
But I've got to go away
For goodnesses sake
But if you hold down the fort
I'll be sure to make sure
If you keep my heart in the keep
If you dry your weeping eyes
You will see me in a castle in the Kimberley's
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I got a whimsical feeling that we're
We're gonna make it out alive
Even though everything's aching
Well I got a feeling alright
One day I'm gonna ride a big wave
You too can catch it if you like
And it's gonna take us elsewhere, elsewhere, yeah
Come on and catch it if you like
The bear fell out of the Big Blue House
And the mouse he couldn't catch him
The cadilac cried when he waved goodbye
But the moon couldn't catch him
And that's why we don't go there anymore
I don't remember when it happened
But it happened
I don't remember when it did
But it is done
I don't remember where it's hidden
The glyph that I had written
On the run
I do not blame you
If you want to turn me apart
I do not know where
You would even ever start
But I couldn't tell you what I scrawled
On the middle of that wall in the dark
Glyph!
Why are you keeping secrets
Glyph!
Yeah what's the big idea?
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Fire and forget
Meat seeking heat
Sticking to whatever it is that you mean
A tour that never toured
A shoe done in velour
And candlesticks all up to here
What are the stakes?
Been battling for days
I can't believe I'm getting away with it
The Jamboree
Was more a soiree
But I was still too late
To partake
I feel like an alligator
Inside an alimony
I could always tell you were a phony, could always tell
But I can rest assured
He won't read the subtitles
He'll look toward cliffs, lips or the like
What are the stakes?
We've been battling for days
I still can't believe I'm getting away with it
Standard weaponry
Has rendered the immediate landscape
Something violent
With ultraviolet light
At the edge of the hole
Stood a man alone there
Red tuxedo
And a dark guitar
Threw it all in
Brought back the bad angels
They all went villianously along together
Strode crevasse and saddled mountain
Collected enough answers to fill the heart of an ant
But still now when you go up to the mountains to know
They will tell you slow the truth
Til the safes become a bad place to put your rocks
Til the job is done, bodies buried
And fate unfathomably altered
But what are the stakes?
We've been battling for days
And I just can't believe I'm getting away with it
What did you mean to me?
Tell me, tell me truthfully
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InkandMilk (feat. MILO)
03:10
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You know we go together like ink and milk
I wouldn't be caught dead with your ilk
Normally
But I'll make an exception to you
Cause I need a new direction to you
Just got too much affection for you
Cause I don't know what else to do
Cause I don't know what else to do
You know I wouldn't do this normally
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11. |
Heave
07:08
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Muskets and circlets
Race cars, circuits
Running electricity
Capitalist anthems
Less and less phantoms
War crimes and atrocities
Shakespeare and the bible
Tiaras and rifles
There must be a miracle coming
So sing it with me
Q
Enveloped courage
Coffee and porridge
You'll never get it out of me
Broken antennae
Disgruntled tennants
A life is just a tendency
Beautiful colours
Till you pull back the covers
Oh there must be a miracle coming
From me to you
Cold salutations
Cultish preparations
Candles and incense and tea
Quick condolences
A cough and a kiss and get outta here
I just need to leave
I know you got a way
I never once heard you say baby
There must be a miracle coming
So why don't you give it to me
Oh surfacing worms
Oh mullets and perms
Oh angry dog, way down the street
Oh perfect translucence
Oh what a nuisance
Oh sending nudes into the breach
Left side to the right side
Please look on the brightside
There must be a miracle coming
I'd just learnt the score
And then they started a war
And settled it within the week
Oh the nature was jarring
The fighters were parring
Over oil overcoating the sea
Oh they lapped it up
And laughed it up and said
There must be a miracle coming
There isn't a villain
We can't make a living
There isn't inaction
There are no more factions
There's no ex machina
There's no non-believers
There isn't a miracle coming
The world on its axis
The freight on its axles
The overcoming the elite
The SWAT team in transit
The mayor demands it
The whole posse must be defeated
The wound must be treated
But the sickness must live
There isn't a miracle coming
Well the truth is the truth
But the truth is aloof
The truth is underneath the tree
Climb up the branches
Of human advancement
And too late we'll see what it means
To be synthetically driven
Mechanically living
There must be a miracle coming
And if you just want results
That isn't my fault
That's our responsibility
The west was a farce
The west will drive past
When it sees you can't get to your feet
The people are livid
The banners are vivid
There must be a miracle coming
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12. |
hold u still interlude
02:52
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St. St.
06:13
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Saint Street is lit
Like a Molotovian night dream
The road is really like
A garish, metal mount
Zipping the suburb in half
Inside is duck down
And the tiny speaker that died
As the toy smelted in the sun
And the child that owned it
Rollipollied like a rock
Till water
Saint Street is caught
Between the old idea the new idea won't work
And the new idea the old idea was worse
Saint Street is cracked
Out on the rack
Next to four figures it ain't seen before
It won't talk to terror
But it'll talk to the hand
The hand has the paper
The paper has demands
The demands are quite simple
You'll meet us at five
At the old factory center
We'll read you your rights
Because the nose knows a mole
And the mole knows when to take
An order
Saint Street is caught
Between the old idea the new idea won't work
And the new idea the old idea was worse
Saint Street is tilt
Up to seventeen
To scrub down the floors of the war over there
It's a terrible shame
But it's a war that we need
We're warring for general
We're warring for keeps
We're waiting on a simpler kind of peace
We're warring for dad
We're warring for niece
We're warring for dog
We're warring for free
We're waiting on word
That they're gonna remove the borders
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The Poke
02:42
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Well I met him there
Thursday night
I didn't stare
On account of his birthmark
But I'm sure he said
He didn't mind
If I came around
To check it out
When he's out of town
And I don't lie
But if you don't like my alibi
Then you can check it out with mister mouse
And those goddamn clowns
But anyhow
It'll happen anytime now
The digital dogs
And hologram horses
I understood that he was there to give me the poke
The black spot
The snow down in Arkansas
But officer I didn't know
About no joke
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Slightly improvised off of an ancient, very corny poem I wrote back when I was very sad and working at Ashfield BWS. I cbf transcribing the recording so here's what I wrote back when I was 19/20...
All of a sudden I feel very lonely
There's no place like home, click click
All at once I'm gulping, grabbing you with my throat
There's no place like home, click click
I'm moaning
There's no place like home, click click
Bugs, man
There's no place like home, click click
Don't know why I went down this road
There's no place like home, click click
I just know I gotta spend my money
There's no place like home, click click
You said something, I'm sure of it
There's no place like home, click click
I could go deaf any day now
There's no place like home, click click
I could go bad or bald or blind
There's no place like home, click click
What if I couldn't do my job?
There's no place like home, click click
What if I couldn't take care of myself?
There's no place like home, click click
You don't owe me shit
There's no place like home, click click
I'm going
There's no place like home, click click
The dot is blinking less and less
There's no place like home, click click
There's only waterlogged darkness
There's no place like home, click click
And I've forgotten how to dance
There's no place like home, click click
I'm so so scared
There's no place like home, click click
I am nowhere near the bigger picture
There's no place like home, click click
I have been locked out of heaven
There's no place like home, click click
I've lost connection
There's no place like home, click click
I don't know anyone at the soiree
There's no place like home, click click
The glue is melting, the glue is melting
There's no place like home, click click
I went to my room, I guess I slept
There's no place like home, click click
The cage is shaking and I'm in it
There's no place like home, click click
I don't wanna go to carriageland
There's no place like home, click click
My friends have been ferrets this whole time
There's no place like home, click click
Lemme get a grip, lemme get a grip
There's no place like home, click click
Lemme take a sip from the watering hole
There's no place like home, click click
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Plainclothes
04:29
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You and me were
Naturally disastrous
You and I had a pact
Clauses and conditions
I thought we had a deal
We weren't to go back on
You ask for the truth
But you know you can't ask that
In a moment of clarity
You said that it's over
But it's not really over
Til the fat lady sings
Well I know where you are
And I got your details
And I've seen the car you drive around
And I know you don't need to
Be driving something of that pedigree
And in a bout of InZaNiT
You said "You gotta
Keep on pushing the form
Til everybody's informed"
Now I seen you on the beat
Posted up in plainclothes
Ain't no place for a rat
A snake or a turncoat
In a moment of disparity
You said you could see Heaven
With our powers combined
We could've ruled the world
And our wishes could've come true
If you only had entrusted me
To come to your aid
You said you could see Heaven
In the heat of the fight I nearly killed the girl
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Wreck (feat. MILO)
05:31
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What you choose to omit
Can make you supreme
Can save you the trouble of trying too hard
The cars are only trying to
Talk to one another
We are trying to tear them apart
I wanna wash up
Cleanly shaven
On a beach made out of bones
Of rolling rock legends
Dead and gone
And gammy and moving on
What you choose to permit
Can inform generational
Information, it's true
But just let them into the clubs
With their motives and drugs
And let them drink beer out their shoes
Because it's alright
I'll be here all night
If we need an ambulance
If it's an emergency
I personally know the mayor
And he will send us an advance
I wanna wash up
Cleanly shaven
On a beach made out of bones
Of rolling rock legends
Dead and gone
And gammy and moving on
For better or worse
We'll keep the wicks lit
And make sure to not lick them dry
And if a bulb pops
Because it's too hot
Do not cry do not cry do not cry
We will remember
It's coffin on display
What it did, how it danced, how it prayed
The precedent set
When, in front of your face
It told you it's never too late
I wanna wash up
Cleanly shaven
On a beach made out of bones
Of rolling rock legends
Dead and gone
And gammy and moving on
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Me & the Mace
02:43
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Please don't freak out
But there's a gun in my mouth
I'm worried that it might erupt
Your new ring light
Shines almost as bright
As an H.R Geiger tiger's canines
Play the board game
Pretend you're insane
And make a break when they're not looking
Go through the door
I'm on the sixth floor
And I'm ready when you are, ready when you are
Cause I know that it's going to last forever
Cause I know it's going to come true
And if, and if you're differently opinioned
I know that you're going to come through
Ticket on your wrist
To see Billie Eilish
I can't remember where I put my friends
Vesuvius erupts
We're buried in dust
Stuck doing embarrassing things
And I know it's going to last forever
And I know that it's going to come true
And if you're perpendicularly biased
I know that you're gonna come through
Me and the mace
Have entered the race
But we don't mind if we don't win
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He come up to me
He always kept a bee in his eye
He was nothing but an anxious cutpurse
Just doing what he can to survive
I've been down there
In a past life
Yeah
I sort of know what it's like
Daddy took the t bird away
Daddy took the t bird away
I know you're probably thinking
"What the fuck's got to do with me?"
Well this is all your fault isn't it?
All this InZaNiT... Happening in the world today...
So go ahead say it
Tell me I'm just another insoluble creep
Jacked up on some specialised wizardry that you can't understand
Well let me tell you now fucker
I feel like I'm me...
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Oh baby lately
Nature's natural stimulations
Have been driving me crazy, InZaniT
Oh lately
It ain't hurting it is hating
You can hear my thoughts but they're patented
Yeah they're legally owed to me
InZaNiT
And I feel like I'm me
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