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A sense of dread that ever worsens
Since the days of Schmitt & Cernan
Like the chorus follow verses
Up here it is just like Earth is
To live & die on the moon
With gravity severely lessened
Life is boiled to its essence
Eventually the consequences
Assert themselves with their presence
To live & die on the moon
I'm so confused but I'm not crying
So amused and without trying
Become diffused and live undying
Everlasting, underlying
To live & die on the moon
To live & die on the moon
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2. |
No Mercy Bad Year
03:14
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the fog unfurls in peals again
long combers still rolling in
no mercy
bad year
waves are crashing
into the sand here
river’s rising
bad fear
it’s a bad year
at night I worry
in bed, I think
disconcerting
and wide awake
hills are burning
the ground shakes
it’s a bad year
survival
no mercy
whatever doesn’t
kill me hurts me
arrival
of worry
supervirus
showing no mercy
these lyrics
too wordy
why can’t I just sing
“bad year no mercy”
songwriting
unworthy
aphoristic
written tersely
how does it feel
to be alive
to feel anything real
how can we be
merciful and
prepared for anything
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3. |
King of Misery
04:02
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I am the king of misery
I lay my curse on everything I see
currents swelling
torrents raging
wind is howling
resonating
subway yawning
full moon dawning
losing having
needing wanting
I am the king of misery
Right at heart & soul of being
I have only one song left to sing
I am not the king of anything
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4. |
Song for Nike
02:19
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mutilate my skull
make me feel whole
mutilate my blood
’til it’s like I never was
mutilate my mind
until the end of time
mutilate my teeth
there’s nothing left of me
here comes the new skull
same as the old skull
out with the old gods
in with occult
collapsing systems
loosening controls
precariously
feeling wonderful
annihilate the self
I’ll see you all in hell
as if we couldn’t tell
existence is not wealth
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5. |
Void Moon
01:14
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Sail deep into the mist
The time’s already passed
Self awareness don’t exist
There’s not sails upon the mast
It’s been taught by Marx, as well
The bourgeoisie cannot arrive
At a conception of itself
Tonight, the void moon will rise, rise, rise
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6. |
Song of Crashing Waves
02:04
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Half my life, well, it’s been wasted
The other half, nothing at all
And existence, yeah, it’s graceless
Upon us all the obligations fall
Sing a song of the teenage lunatics
Sing a song that’s just some words
Sing a song that’s euphemistic
Sing a song I don’t deserve
Look at the moon as a thing to ponder
Sometimes the subject of a song
Symbol of a cold and distant wonder
And what it means to just get along
Sing of irregular cosmology
Sing particular and vague
Sing of thoughts that gets the best of me
Sing a song of crashing waves
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7. |
Conan, Early Letterman
04:12
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I know that nothing works in isolation
life is like a simulation
never shall I ever leave my home
spend my nights with television
drinking in my inhibitions
dreaming of a talk show of my own
conan, maybe early letterman
I wonder if things were really better then
I promise that I will never realize
an era & a city I idealized
every night I have a vision
giant skeleton bart simpson
crown atop 11 pointed skull
fire raining, jewel encrusted
turning on the ones we’ve trusted
wake in the early morning lull
try to find a clip I can dream on
abe vigoda maybe warren zevon
the present & the past are colliding
the future is a concept that is dying
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8. |
A Song About No Moon
01:32
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tried to write a song about no moon
but I just couldn’t get it right
now what they hell’m I s’posed to do
to get along in this life?
no moon for Cassie
no moon Caroline
no moon don’t ask me
no moon on my mind
no moon for Karen
no moon for Lisa
no moon’s apparent
no moon here to please ya
no moon for Lauren
no moon for Liz
no moon’s abhorrent
no moon’s what it is
no moon Alexis
no moon Karina
no moon to protect us
no moon to deceive ya
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9. |
Bad Year No Mercy
00:46
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had a bad year, doesn’t
matter if it’s wrong or right
drinking lots of beer
singing songs about the moon at night
finally thinking clear
vision’s going hot & white
become an ancient seer
transcend even eternal life
bad year
no mercy
bad year
no mercy
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10. |
Organized Sports
02:06
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All that’s Frasier melts into Niles
All that’s fixed is empty & wild
Nothing means anything anymore
All is contingent & organized sports
All that is Beavis melts into Butthead
All that is sacred is just something someone said
No ideology exists to its core
All is contingent & organized sports
Man is at last compelled to face
The real conditions of some dumb youtube essay
Nothing means anything anymore
All is contingent & organized sports
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11. |
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quarantine order
impending doom
to live & die beneath
the surface of the moon
poisoned adrenochrome
death cult hoax
surface of the moon is
covered with oaks
fashion a vaccine from
a movie star’s blood
dispose of the body
make it seem like he was drugged
it’s a disaster
this american life
beneath the surface of the moon
to live & die
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